Yeah I’ve read that thread and others, and I understand what preconditioning does. But I’ve seen speculation in a different thread that 110V precondition cannot precondition the battery. I see no such indication in the manual that 240V is required for battery preconditioning. So, to go back to the original question I had, if someone with a 240V can confirm that the precondition screen mentions the battery as well, it conclusively answers that question. If it also mentions only the cabin, then the mystery, to me at least, remains. Until I hear positive confirmation from Ford, but I don’t think that will happen.
I think people place way too much importance on preconditioning the battery. Just drive the car and enjoy.
Nice link, thanks. Interesting that at that slide it mentions both battery and cabin preconditioning, but only mentions cabin preconditioning being limited in the fine print. I’d like to think I could deduce that to mean battery preconditioning is not limited, but you never know with Ford, they just might have left “battery” out of the disclaimer for no good reason lol. ?
Very cool - thanks for this. Interesting to see the remote start pulled more power than precondition. But perhaps that was due to exterior temps.When you precondition on Level 2 it
Displays a banner at the bottom of the app like it does for charging, but that’s all. I haven’t tried it on 110, but I know when I precondition and cool the cabin the car pulled a little under 2kW, so it’s possible.
Oh and BTW, I got the screenshot in the original post by clicking on the same banner you are talking about. Next time you precondition, would you mind clicking on that banner and seeing if the text at the top of the pop up is different than mine?When you precondition on Level 2 it
Displays a banner at the bottom of the app like it does for charging, but that’s all. I haven’t tried it on 110, but I know when I precondition and cool the cabin the car pulled a little under 2kW, so it’s possible.
I’m certainly no expert in this, but I’ll give you my experience and opinion.For the screen below, when you precondition on 240V/level 2, does it say anything about battery preconditioning or does it still just mention cabin? Trying to deduce if the 110V is doing anything at all to the battery temp with a scheduled departure, or if it’s not even trying!
Definitely interested to hear how that turns out!
Ya I mean those screen shots were 2 days apart at the end of October in a reasonably insulated garage. I don’t remember if I had changed the climate settings between then though.
Very interesting. Everything with Ford is a mystery! So, no clear answer on the banner text - but clearly your precondition pulled more power than my 110v would be able to. If nothing else I’m less efficient at it. Or mine is supplemented by battery power - which could be the case because I already lost 1% at 0.1 miles into my journey the other day when I had preconditioned.Did a test. The far left on the graph is when my car charged up from returning home. The second spike was when I remote started. I think it was topping up the battery the 1% it was off from its target. The third spike was when it started a new thing which I hadn’t seen before “Preparing for Drive”, different than preconditioning. The third spike and following plateau is the precondition before departure. I did tap on the preconditioning banner and the status page looked the same as yours.
