Preconditioning

[Kabloom123]

Thank you for your advice.

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[FordFamily]

Would someone please send me the link to instructions to precondition while traveling on a road trip? We are driving 400 miles tomorrow. I know this route extremely well, it is the way to my family's home: Portland, Oregon to Winthrop Washington. I am able to use several brands of charging station including Tesla Supercharger (yes, I have the adaptor), a PUD, Electrify America. I have been driving my Mach-E for three years (just replaced the LVB), and before that the Nissan Leaf. If I am correct, we used to earmark a charging station twenty miles out on the Ford map screen; hasn't that been changed to using the Ford PAAS? Can I lay out a trip including stations and schedule preconditioning, or do I pick the next charging station while I am charging? Recently the screen has told me I can't chose while driving, even though the passenger is jockeying the screen. There must be a single link that gives the easiest instructions to plan ahead and arrange preconditioning. Thanks all for your knowledge and experience.

 

[RickMachE]

Would someone please send me the link to instructions to precondition while traveling on a road trip? We are driving 400 miles tomorrow. I know this route extremely well, it is the way to my family's home: Portland, Oregon to Winthrop Washington. I am able to use several brands of charging station including Tesla Supercharger (yes, I have the adaptor), a PUD, Electrify America. I have been driving my Mach-E for three years (just replaced the LVB), and before that the Nissan Leaf. If I am correct, we used to earmark a charging station twenty miles out on the Ford map screen; hasn't that been changed to using the Ford PAAS? Can I lay out a trip including stations and schedule preconditioning, or do I pick the next charging station while I am charging? Recently the screen has told me I can't chose while driving, even though the passenger is jockeying the screen. There must be a single link that gives the easiest instructions to plan ahead and arrange preconditioning. Thanks all for your knowledge and experience.

WHEN your navigation shows Tesla SuperChargers, it will precondition the battery for them, starting 30km out, which is 18.6 miles (hence the 20 mile reference).

No, you cannot use FordPass. It has no trip planning function today. Yes, you can layout a trip on the Ford Navigation (frustrating to use), and if the fast charger is selected as a destination, it will precondition. Prior to getting the Tesla charger update, you can navigate to a different brand fast charger and it will precondition.

If you use Google Maps with Android Auto, it will precondition when navigating to a fast charger.

 

[Adventureboy]

Would someone please send me the link to instructions to precondition while traveling on a road trip? We are driving 400 miles tomorrow. I know this route extremely well, it is the way to my family's home: Portland, Oregon to Winthrop Washington. I am able to use several brands of charging station including Tesla Supercharger (yes, I have the adaptor), a PUD, Electrify America. I have been driving my Mach-E for three years (just replaced the LVB), and before that the Nissan Leaf. If I am correct, we used to earmark a charging station twenty miles out on the Ford map screen; hasn't that been changed to using the Ford PAAS? Can I lay out a trip including stations and schedule preconditioning, or do I pick the next charging station while I am charging? Recently the screen has told me I can't chose while driving, even though the passenger is jockeying the screen. There must be a single link that gives the easiest instructions to plan ahead and arrange preconditioning. Thanks all for your knowledge and experience.

I have a 2022 ER that I've had for 3 years - I have not found that mine does preconditioning while travelling. Setting the NAV destination as a DCFC should trigger it if it is active, but my experience is that it doesn't seem to make a difference. Newer models may be different, or the LFP versions may also be different. For me, the charge rate still ramps up when you plug in to DCFC and is dependent on how warm the battery is from driving and how cold it is, but not if the DCFC destination is set.

 

[RickMachE]

I have a 2022 ER that I've had for 3 years - I have not found that mine does preconditioning while travelling. Setting the NAV destination as a DCFC should trigger it if it is active, but my experience is that it doesn't seem to make a difference. Newer models may be different, or the LFP versions may also be different. For me, the charge rate still ramps up when you plug in to DCFC and is dependent on how warm the battery is from driving and how cold it is, but not if the DCFC destination is set.

The only way to know for sure is with CarScanner.

 

[FordFamily]

Thanks, I got what I needed

 

[Adventureboy]

The only way to know for sure is with CarScanner.

Good point. I'm on a road trip this weekend. I'll throw the dongle in the MME and see.

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