Android Auto Preconditioning

[TaxmanHog]

If you have a truck and it is NOT pre-heating the battery we would want to investigate that. If you have any logs or evidence of a time you are confident it did not precondition and should have, happy to receive it via DM and have the engineers look at it.

I wrote about the experience in the Ionna thread last winter.

Actually, I didn't say much about it, didn't want to sour the positive vibe everyone had celebrating the event.

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[TaxmanHog]

Keep in mind there is no customer-facing notification of preconditioning, the battery temperature target is variable depending on the power level of the charger you're heading to, and the battery shares the heater with the cabin, and the cabin is given priority.

I monitored with car scanner enroute, modulating cabin heat from normal warm, to low, to off, the battery warming mode never turned on while in proximity <20 miles/minutes to the high power DCFC (Ionna) station.

Once I got to the DCFC station, plugged in, then repeated modulation of cabin heating, I was able to see the HVB heating mode switch on accordingly as to what level of demand there was from cabin heating, low or no cabin heating activated battery heating.

Unfortunately it doesn't follow the intended logic enroute.