Ford's Important Tip For Driving Your Mach-E in the Cold: Preconditioning / Pre-Heat Your Battery

[RickMachE]

In short, preconditioning effectively makes the battery bigger, so you get more miles out of it.

Wait, wut? It gets bigger when it gets warm? The opposite of shrinkage?

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[kkgg]

@Ford Motor Company, please give us a way to precondition the battery from the FordPass app (in the next software update)

- The departure times does not always work in the app
- We don't have a set defined times to take the car out, We WFH I don't have a schedule to run for errands

 

[Msnwcpa]

Too bad I cant use "Set departure times" in my ford pass because it doesnt work @FordMotorCompany

Are you on Android 13? I have that same issue. Also have Bluetooth drop one every 5 mins.
Ford S/W version 3.5.4

 

[SteveJo]

Ford, just give us a "precondition now" button in the FordPass app!

I don't see that in my v4.23.1 on IOS?

 

[SteveJo]

I'm under the impression that there is no HVB precon possible when L1 charging. Correct?

 

[gordonf238]

Ford, just give us a "precondition now" button in the FordPass app!

This 100%. Not everyone has a 9-5 schedule set in stone. And who can be bothered to micro-manage their daily driving schedule?

Thanks for listening Ford.

 

[Misteredison]

With this polar vortex incoming, should i precondition to preserve the battery even if I don’t plan on driving through snowmageddon?

 

[RickMachE]

With this polar vortex incoming, should i precondition to preserve the battery even if I don’t plan on driving through snowmageddon?

No

 

[RickMachE]

I'm under the impression that there is no HVB precon possible when L1 charging. Correct?

Correct.

 

[ChasingCoral]

Thanks for doing all this. Is preconditioning as necessary in warm temperatures? I’m going to guess the answer is a resounding “No!”

Correct

 

[ChasingCoral]

Ford, just give us a "precondition now" button in the FordPass app!

Agreed. @Ford Motor Company: Two items that are needed in the Ford Pass App are “Charge now” (we used to have this) and “Precondition now”.

 

[Msnwcpa]

I'm under the impression that there is no HVB precon possible when L1 charging. Correct?

I have only L1 110V at home. I was told that the car will use the L1 power to keep the battery compartment in the required temp and also precondition

 

[GuliblGuy]

Agreed. @Ford Motor Company: Two items that are needed in the Ford Pass App are “Charge now” (we used to have this) and “Precondition now”.

According to Darren Palmer on Tom Moloughney's new vid the departure time doesn't matter so much, just set a departure time in the AM, and the vehicle will just pretty much stay pre warmed/ready to go for hours:



Of course that won't help on days you didn't know you were going to go anywhere in which case the precondition now would be key.

 

[MellowJohnny]

With this polar vortex incoming, should i precondition to preserve the battery even if I don’t plan on driving through snowmageddon?

Pre-condition the snowblower battery...

 

[Misteredison]

Pre-condition the snowblower battery...

Done and done. Preconditioning the beer fridge as we speak!

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