Charge not starting at specified time. Has anyone had this happen and know how to fix it?

[doublj70]

Hello,
I have my 23 XLT with the Ford pro charger set to charge starting at midnight. It has always started at midnight and finishes at 90% a few hours later depending on how low it was. I haven’t changed anything as far as settings. Then two nights ago, when I was walking by the truck about 9am I heard the charger click off, which I thought was strange, and for some reason it had not started charging until 6am. I figured it was just a fluke, but when I woke up this morning at 7am, I checked and it was still “waiting to charge” but it had been plugged in since 9pm, and never started charging. I pressed the start button on the app and it’s charging now.
Has anyone had this happen and know how to fix it? Any advice will be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

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[Heliian]

Could have been an update or location change. Reset your location and enter the times in the truck also.

 

[husky10101]

I had to delete the time settings and re-enter them in the app and this worked.

 

[chl]

Could have been an update or location change. Reset your location and enter the times in the truck also.

Yes, I had that happen when an OTA update overlapped with the charge time, except in my case, the charging never happened.

I changed the update time to allow my truck to charge from 1:00am to 6:00am when off-peak rates apply, and the OTAs to start a good while after that.

If you need to you could also just turn off the auto-update and then turn it back on when the charging is finished, if that is what happened.

Sometimes after an OTA, things go back to "default" settings which is a pain, but oh well.

 

[molsonmatt]

Hello,
I have my 23 XLT with the Ford pro charger set to charge starting at midnight. It has always started at midnight and finishes at 90% a few hours later depending on how low it was. I haven’t changed anything as far as settings. Then two nights ago, when I was walking by the truck about 9am I heard the charger click off, which I thought was strange, and for some reason it had not started charging until 6am. I figured it was just a fluke, but when I woke up this morning at 7am, I checked and it was still “waiting to charge” but it had been plugged in since 9pm, and never started charging. I pressed the start button on the app and it’s charging now.
Has anyone had this happen and know how to fix it? Any advice will be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Is the time in your truck correct? This happened to me once when the time somehow got changed. It said 1:something am when it was around 6pm. When I plugged it in it started charging. I have it set to charge from 9pm to 7am. I would think the FCSP would control when it charges but this left me to believe it’s the truck that dictates. When I corrected the truck time it waited until 9:00 to start.

 

[TaxmanHog]

Is the time in your truck correct? This happened to me once when the time somehow got changed. It said 1:something am when it was around 6pm. When I plugged it in it started charging. I have it set to charge from 9pm to 7am. I would think the FCSP would control when it charges but this left me to believe it’s the truck that dictates. When I corrected the truck time it waited until 9:00 to start.

Yes, the truck is 'THE' controller with respect to the FCSP, other EVSE's with integrated time controls might be available but it's still the truck and how you define the SOC & time constraints that also matters.

 

[AlaskaFlash]

Hello,
I have my 23 XLT with the Ford pro charger set to charge starting at midnight. It has always started at midnight and finishes at 90% a few hours later depending on how low it was. I haven’t changed anything as far as settings. Then two nights ago, when I was walking by the truck about 9am I heard the charger click off, which I thought was strange, and for some reason it had not started charging until 6am. I figured it was just a fluke, but when I woke up this morning at 7am, I checked and it was still “waiting to charge” but it had been plugged in since 9pm, and never started charging. I pressed the start button on the app and it’s charging now.
Has anyone had this happen and know how to fix it? Any advice will be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

One thing I had to do to make sure my 2024 Flash charged when I wanted it to is set a departure time.

 

[doublj70]

Thanks for the replies and suggestions! The truck seems to have self healed and has started charging at midnight again the past couple nights.

 

[Matigo]

Hello all,

I had a similar experience with a caveat. I plugged the truck at 6h30pm and it is scheduled to charge at 9pm. It didn't start at 9pm so I manually started it from the app. It got from 30% to 80% by the time I woke up and I then manually stopped the charge from the app. This happens at least once a month, so I need to check every time if the truck charges at is should, unreliable and a bit annoying.

Here is the odd part: Before getting to work, I remote started it to cool off the cabin and the truck didn't pull from the wall, even if it was still plugged in, something that doesn't happen when the scheduled charge starts normally at 9pm.

It looks like the truck sometimes doesn't realize it is plugged in to the Emporia charger. Any idea about what causes that behavior? Thanks.

 

[hturnerfamily]

it's easy to get confused on 'timed' or 'scheduled' at-home charging because we might readily assume that the 'charger' is to blame... although, as we've all learned, over time and experience, that our EV decides when to allow charging...

"allow" is the important element, as it HAS to be this way - if the EVSE could trump the vehicle's own requirements, we'd have batteries being 'charged' when they are already full, etc.

EVSE units that have their own 'scheduling' capabilities add to the confusion, as, yes, you can certainly allow the EVSE it's own timing, but, regardless, the VEHICLE has to be the final say.

A) the EV's internal timing, scheduling, limits, etc., is in PRIMARY command of charging
B) the EV owner can turn off these parameters, for the most part, if they wish the EVSE to take more command of charge timing, scheduling, *amperage, etc.
C) but, regardless, the EVSE is the SECONDARY in command timing or scheduling or amperage

*While our LIGHTNINGS have the ability to control scheduling of charging timing, it's interesting that we don't have any control over AMPERAGE, as other EVs do. My sons' 2017 and 2019 BOLTS can lower incoming charging amperage, and our '24 EV9 can lower amperage, if needed, such as 90% of the EVSE's output, or 60%, etc.
I would like FORD to roll out the LIGHTNING's capability of lowering the incoming Amperage usage when charging, effectively giving us more control, and limiting the need for an 'Adjustable EVSE', as I now use for daily charging.
There are times/days when I don't even need full 30amp charging input to the truck, and there may be times when you want to lower the amperage due to special situations, campground outlets, using a friend or relative's 240v outlet which may have something else on the circuit, or even a 240v outlet on a 30amp breaker, such as a dryer outlet, where you want to lower the amperage down to 20-24 to limit tripping.

 

[K6CCC]

So far I have also had the truck lose the correct time. I noticed it because the charge did not start at 2100 as schedule for home, so I manually started it. The next day I noticed that the clock was off by a bunch of hours. Reset the time, and all worked fine after that.

 

[TaxmanHog]

So far I have also had the truck lose the correct time. I noticed it because the charge did not start at 2100 as schedule for home, so I manually started it. The next day I noticed that the clock was off by a bunch of hours. Reset the time, and all worked fine after that.

Was the switch for automatic sync/time adjustments also off?

 

[K6CCC]

Was the switch for automatic sync/time adjustments also off?

Yes it was. Not how I had left it, so wondered if an update changed it on me.

 

[MDErnst]

*While our LIGHTNINGS have the ability to control scheduling of charging timing, it's interesting that we don't have any control over AMPERAGE, as other EVs do. My sons' 2017 and 2019 BOLTS can lower incoming charging amperage, and our '24 EV9 can lower amperage, if needed, such as 90% of the EVSE's output, or 60%, etc.
I would like FORD to roll out the LIGHTNING's capability of lowering the incoming Amperage usage when charging, effectively giving us more control, and limiting the need for an 'Adjustable EVSE', as I now use for daily charging.
There are times/days when I don't even need full 30amp charging input to the truck, and there may be times when you want to lower the amperage due to special situations, campground outlets, using a friend or relative's 240v outlet which may have something else on the circuit, or even a 240v outlet on a 30amp breaker, such as a dryer outlet, where you want to lower the amperage down to 20-24 to limit tripping.

You can control (limit) the AC charge rate (amperage) from both the App and the Truck's screen. Am I missing something?

 

[Maquis]

You can control (limit) the AC charge rate (amperage) from both the App and the Truck's screen. Am I missing something?

You have that option only because you have a 2025.

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