Pre-Condition while on a road trip from Home

[Handsfree]

Good afternoon MachE owners. Any suggestions with pre-conditioning the battery while doing a road trip. Specifically when driving in the winter and staying at a hotel for a couple of days. I will be doing a road trip up north in Ottawa, Canada. The Hotel's have chargers at them but I am thinking that this should be rather interesting, when it comes to pre-conditioning the battery. Do you run out and plug it in an hour before you leave to warm it up???

Once again we are getting to the feature really needed which would be a " Manual Pre-Conditioning battery Option" I do not understand why such an easy fix is so hard to imagine.

Maybe the Ford engineers should have to take road trips and experience the journey first and then decide what new software features are priority. Living in a cold climate has its challenges, why make more of them then needed??

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[Deleted member 19354]

Good afternoon MachE owners. Any suggestions with pre-conditioning the battery while doing a road trip. Specifically when driving in the winter and staying at a hotel for a couple of days. I will be doing a road trip up north in Ottawa, Canada. The Hotel's have chargers at them but I am thinking that this should be rather interesting, when it comes to pre-conditioning the battery. Do you run out and plug it in an hour before you leave to warm it up???

Once again we are getting to the feature really needed which would be a " Manual Pre-Conditioning battery Option" I do not understand why such an easy fix is so hard to imagine.

Maybe the Ford engineers should have to take road trips and experience the journey first and then decide what new software features are priority. Living in a cold climate has its challenges, why make more of them then needed??

Do you know what time you’re checking out? I’d put hat down on the app and keep in charged. I hope that made sense

 

[Deleted member 19354]

Do you know what time you’re checking out? I’d put hat down on the app and keep in charged. I hope that made sense

Something along these lines

 

[Mach-Lee]

The vehicle should already be charged to target before starting. You’ll need to set a departure time. Plug in at least two hours before the departure time.

 

[Msnwcpa]

Good afternoon MachE owners. Any suggestions with pre-conditioning the battery while doing a road trip. Specifically when driving in the winter and staying at a hotel for a couple of days. I will be doing a road trip up north in Ottawa, Canada. The Hotel's have chargers at them but I am thinking that this should be rather interesting, when it comes to pre-conditioning the battery. Do you run out and plug it in an hour before you leave to warm it up???

Once again we are getting to the feature really needed which would be a " Manual Pre-Conditioning battery Option" I do not understand why such an easy fix is so hard to imagine.

Maybe the Ford engineers should have to take road trips and experience the journey first and then decide what new software features are priority. Living in a cold climate has its challenges, why make more of them then needed??

When it’s cold in PA below 33 ?, warm for many I plug in 30 mins ahead and set the schedule to warm up the cabin and condition the battery for the right

 

[RickMachE]

The vehicle should already be charged to target before starting. You’ll need to set a departure time. Plug in at least two hours before the departure time.

On my recent trip, I set a departure time of 8AM. Car wasn't done charging, but it preconditioned and warmed the cabin. Of note - the charging session had not ended. Some chargers need to be restarted, either by a button, or unplugging and plugging back in, to start a session.

 

[Msnwcpa]

The vehicle should already be charged to target before starting. You’ll need to set a departure time. Plug in at least two hours before the departure time.

Did not realize it’s two hrs ahead

 

[RickMachE]

Did not realize it’s two hrs ahead

It can be. Depends on temps. I've seen close to 90 minutes in 20s.

 

[Handsfree]

Do you know what time you’re checking out? I’d put hat down on the app and keep in charged. I hope that made sense

Sometimes I go on business trips, two days and three nights away. Looks like there is some work needed to make sure that the battery is in good start up mode before moving around. Interesting, they never chat about this stuff when signing on the dotted line. I appreciate the feedback, atleast the eduction will help to keep this car running well into the future

 

[Handsfree]

When it’s cold in PA below 33 ?, warm for many I plug in 30 mins ahead and set the schedule to warm up the cabin and condition the battery for the right

My understanding is the the warm up mode has nothing to do with pre-conditioning the battery. In fact they are totally separate. I guess people living in Florida and California never have to think about pre-conditioning of the battery. If this is the future, then its about time to have a function to make this happen

 

[RickMachE]

Sometimes I go on business trips, two days and three nights away. Looks like there is some work needed to make sure that the battery is in good start up mode before moving around. Interesting, they never chat about this stuff when signing on the dotted line. I appreciate the feedback, atleast the eduction will help to keep this car running well into the future

Unless you're driving a very long distance on those days away, simply do a remote start and go. Only if you need the range that day does a departure time matter.

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