How does cabin heating work?

[B177y]

Once you get into this cold of territory, you may want to use departure time. As mentioned above, you can do the math as to how much power you’re using to preheat. It really depends on the cost of your power to decide if it’s worth the comfort. I ran a bunch of tests on my 24 Flash last winter and it was anywhere from an extra .25 to $1 for me to preheat depending on outside air temp. I found I would recover most of this on the back end charge that evening though as I didn’t spend all the energy to heat on my trip. It was slightly more costly energy wise though, so pick your poison, comfort or quarters.

Departure times are a fun event with our trucks. The E Heat is really interesting in yours, I haven’t seen that and it makes sense they would incorporate that for the quick heating and just use the pump to maintain. About a half hour before my departure time on a cold morning it sounds like a small RC jet is spooling up for takeoff and I’ve been waiting for my neighbors to ask if everything is ok but haven’t heard anything yet…

Make use of your heated seats and steering wheel. For me, neither come off this time of year and I leave the truck on 72 Auto 3. One other thing that’s a PITA but may help you. If I ever feel a chill in the air and I don’t have a passenger (which means passenger heat is off), I will go into climate and flip on passenger heat. I think it’s the Dual button. This noticeably helps balance out the cabin. Just note this resets after you shut off unfortunately which is where the PITA comes in if you want to roll around like this.

Make sure the "driver focused" button is off on the climate screen. That keeps climate on for the entire cabin even through restart cycles.

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[rufustlong]

Make sure the "driver focused" button is off on the climate screen. That keeps climate on for the entire cabin even through restart cycles.

Nice tip, I will try that one.

Edit: Works great, thanks again!

 

[HammoJ]

All this talk about being warm in the cabin and no mention of using the heated seats.

 

[jwrezz]

All this talk about being warm in the cabin and no mention of using the heated seats.

It has been, a bit. I just used the cabin heat for the first time today (it was a brisk 28F when I left), but had been using only seat and steering heat until now!

 

[Mcgyverrod]

How do you know if you have a heat pump or not?

Ford used a conventional resistive heating system in the 2022-23 Lightnings. In 2024, they went to a heat pump. Additionally, I only use the heated seats and steering wheel but my temps rarely drop below 25 degrees in the mountains.

 

[Magendi]

I really, really wish someone would figure out how to disable driver-focused heat/AC in Forscan. It’s amazingly irritating.

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