That is a great application!
My bobe is knitting a quilt for my MME
A common example for me is a hotel stop during a long road trip, which means the next leg is usually 100-150 miles. I don't care a lot about the impact on charging speed. If the hotel doesn't have L2, I'll usually DCFC in the evening to be ready in the morning anyway. It's really more about range/efficiency. There have been cold mornings when I set a departure schedule, and others where I forget. I really don't notice much difference in the (poor) MPK the next morning whether I burn a few% to precon or not. I'll always preheat the cabin though, which is probably most of that.I would hazard that it is dependent on the length of the leg you’re traveling. Since it will be 3-5 KWh of power drawn, you will be killing the equivalent number of miles based on your fuel consumption. My guess is that it will be a loss for a leg less than 90 miles for most people. ?‍?
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Yeah, when I had my car, I wondered where those controls were then I decided to hit the button that said extend and then they showed up.Since Ford still doesn't have a dang battery precondition button...I had a hunch. For those of you with the remote climate control settings showing up in FordPass, there is a way to use the remote controls to heat the battery. The car must be parked in below-freezing conditions; otherwise the A/C will run instead.
Once you start climate control with the fan button, tap on the climate settings box and set the cabin temp to LO. Make sure defrost is off. You can turn on heated seat/wheel if desired. When you accept the setting, the temp shown may change from LO to 59ÂşF, just ignore that.
The LO setting is sort of special because it disables cabin heat regardless of temperature. With no cabin heat demand, the powertrain strategy will allow battery heating instead if the battery is cold (also works while driving).
The only negative is the fan will blow raw outside air into the cabin. But if the car is already bone cold, it doesn't really matter.
In my test, the battery temperature was raised +8ÂşC in the 15-minute remote climate period. Since you get two climate activations, you could then do a subsequent remote climate and change the temp to 72ÂşF or whatever to actually warm up the cabin the second time.
If you do not have the remote climate controls in FordPass, you can also do this by changing your remote start settings to "last setting" instead of AUTO on the main screen, and shutting off HVAC before you leave the car. Then start remote climate. Not nearly as convenient, but it works if really necessary.
Someone posted a very plausible response to that question in another thread.
Don’t be silly that would make total sense ??
If it isn't asking too much, could you elaborate? I just took a road trip and had some issues with getting the battery per-conditioned before DCFC as I don't have all the latest updates.
