First year owner has battery question for winter

[mb0220]

“Wetter air” is ambiguous. You are 100% correct regarding density vs relative humidity, but if by “wetter air” he means precipitation, the combination of liquid and gas will likely (depending on liquid/gas ratio) be effectively denser and negatively impact range.

All I really meant was that when it's raining you get reduced efficiency (all other things being equal). But I can appreciate the scientific exhibition!

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[Mach Turtle]

I think we've arrived at a consensus about rain and range. A question: How about snow and range? The effect of cold air is obvious, but what about the solid water? I haven't driven a Lightning in snow, but our Mach-E didn't seem to see much difference between rain and snow...except that slushy stuff got all over the front bumper and blocked the CCM radar, causing adaptive cruise control to fail until we descended to warmer air and the slush melted.

 

[SunMar10]

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Preconditioning of the battery will only work if you have a departure time set and you're plugged into a charger.
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Do I understand that starting (Fordpass app “fan” icon button) while plugged-in to the charger will only prepare cabin temperature but will not precondition the battery?

 

[TaxmanHog]

Do I understand that starting (Fordpass app “fan” icon button) while plugged-in to the charger will only prepare cabin temperature but will not precondition the battery?

Correct.

To condition your HV battery, you must schedule a departure time, keep truck plugged in and energy be available from the EVSE for the 1-2 hours prior to intended departure time.

I mention this for EVSE which have independent time / energy restrictions for TOU compliance, this could complicate the conditioning process depending on time frame conflicts.

 

[SunMar10]

Correct.

To condition your HV battery, you must schedule a departure time, keep truck plugged in and energy be available from the EVSE for the 1-2 hours prior to intended departure time.

I mention this for EVSE which have independent time / energy restrictions for TOU compliance, this could complicate the conditioning process depending on time frame conflicts.

Hi TaxmanHog,

Thank you for clarifying.​

Hi Ford Motor Company,

If I regularly commuted then making a schedule of departure times would be “value added”; but, I don’t regularly depart any day or any time. It’s a lot of FordPass app tedium to “schedule” to depart 30 minutes from “now” to go out and about.​

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It would be great if FordPass had a button to start conditioning cabin AND preconditioning battery starting “now”, and get a notification when it’s “ready for departure”.​

 

[Scorpio3d]

Hi TaxmanHog,

Thank you for clarifying.​

Hi Ford Motor Company,

If I regularly commuted then making a schedule of departure times would be “value added”; but, I don’t regularly depart any day or any time. It’s a lot of FordPass app tedium to “schedule” to depart 30 minutes from “now” to go out and about.​

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It would be great if FordPass had a button to start conditioning cabin AND preconditioning battery starting “now”, and get a notification when it’s “ready for departure”.​

Trying to be helpful, if you include the @ And start typing who you want to include for instance @tax It should pop up with the user And then you can include them, and it will notify them that they have been tagged in a post. Hope that makes sense and helps!

 

[MidAtlanticLightningClub]

Hello forum. This will be my first winter with our 2023 Lightening. Standard battery with 230 m range. We live in Pacific Northwest and the truck is outside all the time. We drive about 100 m a month but during the holidays we will be driving close to max range a few times. Suggestions on prepping for possible weather in the teens.

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