[Feature Rollout] Pro Power Onboard with Vehicle Off

[MidAtlanticLightningClub]

Thank you, Ford I own a 2023 and I have been waiting for this feature for two years. I appreciate you following up.

To my knowledge that leaves one feature left that we were promised would be eventually coming to our models, and that is showing the charging speed while charging on the screen

Don’t forget we still can’t route using Tesla Superchargers when using Ford Connected Navigation.

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[PreservedSwine]

Thank you Ford- love this feature!

 

[Altivec]

OMG! THANK YOU BRIAN!!!! or whomever pushed to get this through. I have no fingertips left for the amount of times I've complained about the lack of this update. I for sure thought us Lightning owners were abandoned so I must eat some crow now. Unfortunately, it came a week too late as I just purchased a car for my wife and Ford was not a consideration for exactly reneging on this one promise. Not saying I would have gotten a Mach-E but at least we would have gone and looked at one. Still a few things in software that are so minor but just annoy me and I know the Mach-E shares the same software. Biggest remaining gripe is Sport mode not sticking and having to be asked every start. My wife's new car retains drive modes, better yet it remembers it for each profile...imagine that, profiles that store last settings... Since I was wrong about the pro power update, maybe drive modes are next... WOO HOO... My Hope level went from 0 to 1. Again, thanks Brian for taking our abuse and pushing to get this out. GREATLY appreciated!

 

[jobofly79]

Don’t forget we still can’t route using Tesla Superchargers when using Ford Connected Navigation.

What year is your lightning? I can route to tesla stations in my 2024.

 

[MountainAlive]

What year is your lightning? I can route to tesla stations in my 2024.

This is unfortunately another 2022/2023 thing. No Tesla chargers show on the built in navigation. But perhaps there’s hope now with this unexpected pro power feature update for 22/23’s.

 

[Rayden]

I have not tried this as I just discovered it shows up in the Ford app, but if you go to:
"Find Public Charging"
Select a charger
"Charge Here"

Will that route you through the truck's navigation? Or would it use Carplay/AA? Or would it not do anything?

 

[Maineiac12]

The powertrain prereq continues to be deployed - but we're most of the way through it.

This has always bugged me. Why can’t Ford send these updates to us faster? I understand a small batch initially in case there is a bug, but there’s no reason that a bug-free update should take months or years to roll out to the entire fleet. Especially for the EV fleets which are so much smaller than the ICE vehicles.

Can you explain why it takes so long?

 

[JayF]

This has always bugged me. Why can’t Ford send these updates to us faster? I understand a small batch initially in case there is a bug, but there’s no reason that a bug-free update should take months or years to roll out to the entire fleet. Especially for the EV fleets which are so much smaller than the ICE vehicles.

Can you explain why it takes so long?

I can't tell you Ford's answer (I'd be surprised if you got a technical answer from them) but I know having worked similar architectures with a large number of remotely configured agents, we used a "one/some/many/all" pattern to deploy changes -- including "feature flag" config changes (which is almost certainly what this is) -- this meant that we'd push to a small number of test devices first, then say, 10% more every [period of time -- sometimes as long as a week], until we got to the point of being fully cut over. In some situations, we only found issues after we were close to the 40%-50% rolled-out threshold.

I can guess (in the same cynical way as everyone) why the older trucks are low priority, but once they do the work and make the decision to roll out, it makes sense it takes a while.

All this is easy for me to say though as I got the feature already

 

[K6CCC]

Plus the timer/heater setup to activater ~5 seconds every ~5 minutes. Hopefully there is a small heater <100Watts that would allow that to be in the frunk as well.

If you are going to put the heater in the frunk, I would highly recommend a shorter on time so it never gets hot. I set mine to 1 second on time (the minimum I could set) and experimented to see how long I could go for the off time and keep PPOB running. I found that 230 second off time was OK, but 240 was not. So I leave it at 220 seconds of off time with the 1 second of on time. In one second, the heater never gets even warm. Note that when I am camping, I have the heater in the bed. I don't know if that would change anything being on the other inverter. Here is the heater and timer I have:

The timer: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09BZ8LQFB?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title
The heater: https://a.co/d/08iG7VSx

 

[K6CCC]

In reference to the Ford built in Nav:

What year is your lightning? I can route to tesla stations in my 2024.

Are you saying that Tesla SuperChargers just show up on the map, or that you can do an explicit search, and it will find them? As for just showing as I am driving, they certainly do not reliably on my '24. Sometimes they will - MOST of the time they do not (and it's not consistent which one show up). BTW, Google Maps via Android Auto is no better.

 

[jobofly79]

In reference to the Ford built in Nav:


Are you saying that Tesla SuperChargers just show up on the map, or that you can do an explicit search, and it will find them? As for just showing as I am driving, they certainly do not reliably on my '24. Sometimes they will - MOST of the time they do not (and it's not consistent which one show up). BTW, Google Maps via Android Auto is no better.

I was able to choose my preference for charging stations in the ford nav. Tesla is my first choice so when I plan my routes it always routes me to Tesla chargers when needed.

 

[K6CCC]

I was able to choose my preference for charging stations in the ford nav. Tesla is my first choice so when I plan my routes it always routes me to Tesla chargers when needed.

I also set Tesla as my preferred charge, but very seldom does a charge station reliably show up on the map. Same with EVgo, E.A., ChargePoint, so it's not a Tesla only issue. So I guess I'm asking how you getting stations to show up?

 

[MidAtlanticLightningClub]

What year is your lightning? I can route to tesla stations in my 2024.

2022

 

[ryun]

Does this mean the only software features separating MY 22/23 and 24/25 are the better charging options? Setting global targets and the like?

Also, I noticed yesterday that the propower off option was added to my truck.

 

[The Weatherman]

Does this mean the only software features separating MY 22/23 and 24/25 are the better charging options? Setting global targets and the like?

Also, I noticed yesterday that the propower off option was added to my truck.

No, it’s not the only difference. For example: we do not have the ability to set draw level for charging our trucks. Nor do we have the charging information on our driver display that the 24/25’s have. There may be more.

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