Quick Depart button- app request

[ctenidae]

Once the frunk button gets sorted out, it would be nice to have a quick button to set a 1-tume departure time. "Leaving in 30" or something other than setting a recurring departure time that I'm certain to forget to cancel.

Just a thought.

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[Polar]

Just use remote start - if you’re looking 10-30 minute out.

 

[PaulP]

Just use remote start - if you’re looking 10-30 minute out.

Remote start doesn't precondition the battery which is a really useful feature in Canada!

 

[Hammered]

Yeah, 2nd an imminent departure button as well as an imminent DCFC button. I don't use ford's nav, and I really don't need to nav to something I know where it's at. Android auto's frequent destination displays and their time colors already alert me to the possibility of encountering traffic jams for faster routing in the event a road may be jammed up.

 

[Mach-Lee]

FYI full battery+cabin preconditioning takes an hour in cold temps. Hitting a button 30 minutes before leaving doesn’t provide enough time to get the battery very warm. Remote start is a better option if you have less than 30 minutes of warning. That will at least defer the range penalty from warming up the cabin.

If such a feature was added, people would have to accept “Your car will be ready in 65 minutes“ after pushing it. If you didn’t wait and got in the car after 30 minutes, the cabin would still be cold. Total time varies depending on how cold it is.

Just want to make sure people realize the timescales involved to make it worthwhile are longer than assumed. Ford probably didn’t add it because customers wouldn’t understand why they had to wait so long and why the cabin didn’t warm up right away after pressing it.

 

[Hammered]

FYI full battery+cabin preconditioning takes an hour in cold temps. Hitting a button 30 minutes before leaving doesn’t provide enough time to get the battery very warm. Remote start is a better option if you have less than 30 minutes of warning. That will at least defer the range penalty from warming up the cabin.

If such a feature was added, people would have to accept “Your car will be ready in 65 minutes“ after pushing it. Varies depending on how cold it is.

Just want to make sure people realize the timescales involved make it worthwhile are longer than assumed.

Anything is better than what we've got now. An even better option would be able to set a temp 'floor' so that no matter what the conditions the car can be ready in a user-determined variable ranging from 45m to 15m depending on what someone is willing to pay for the convenience.

An EV engine block heater equivalent. Want it going all night? No problem. Want it 15m ready starting at a certain time of day -- a simple software option. These are things even chatGPT could write the code for ?

 

[Mach-Lee]

Anything is better than what we've got now. An even better option would be able to set a temp 'floor' so that no matter what the conditions the car can be ready in a user-determined variable ranging from 45m to 15m depending on what someone is willing to pay for the convenience.

An EV engine block heater equivalent. Want it going all night? No problem. Want it 15m ready starting at a certain time of day -- a simple software option. These are things even chatGPT could write the code for ?

I actually very much like the idea of a variable standby temp for the battery. That would solve a lot of issues. Right now it’s fixed to 5°C. I wish we could choose from 0-20°C in 5°C increments. Keeping it warmer will take more electricity, but some people would rather pay than wait.

 

[Kamuelaflyer]

Once the frunk button gets sorted out

So, the day after Never™ then?

 

[Shayne]

Remote start doesn't precondition the battery which is a really useful feature in Canada!

This does and works with an extended 30 minutes as a one button instant when plugged to L2 link We will find out the extend is hit and miss

 

[ctenidae]

Just use remote start - if you’re looking 10-30 minute out.

I do, sometimes - it can at least take the chill off within a parking lot's walk. It has its issues, though, that make it net-net about the same as setting a departure time. FP's connection to the vehicle (and reality) is spotty, the press-and-hold function is variable in both its duration and success, and until you force 3-4 refreshes (see the first clause here) you don't know if it actually worked. And even then, there's some question.

Setting a departure time is no better, to be sure. Whether it sets or not is the subject of Vegas-proportion speculation (though I'm suspecting that some of that variability, in my case at least, may be due to timing- if I'm too close to departure time, it just doesn't even try, like it'll catch it next time around), and it's a 15 menu slog to get to it (see FP's connection issues above).

Not an earth shattering advancement, but something that improves the function would be the kind of thing you use and think "Wow, that's pretty nice/handy." Then, when you sit in your friend's ICE and it's cold, you can take a nice big sip of warm smug while you think about how cool it is to just turn your car on and have it ready when you get there. Because everyone loves some warm smug- I know I do.

 

[ctenidae]

So, the day after Never™ then?

I saw someone post the eleventeenth of Neverember, 20-380. I bought a hat for the party.

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