Lightning preconditioning for departure by itself.

[JCCZ75]

My truck is plugged in to the FCSP in an unheated garage and hasn’t been driven in two days. As with much of the country, NE Ohio has been very cold. I checked the app today and my truck was showing it was preconditioning for departure. There are no departure times set and have never been set for that time. Is it doing this to keep the battery at a certain temperature?

 

[TMND]

My truck is plugged in to the FCSP in an unheated garage and hasn’t been driven in two days. As with much of the country, NE Ohio has been very cold. I checked the app today and my truck was showing it was preconditioning for departure. There are no departure times set and have never been set for that time. Is it doing this to keep the battery at a certain temperature?

Yes

 

[PJnc284]

Yeah they try to avoid the battery getting too cold. I've noticed this twice today also with the temp in the 20's where it ran for about an hour and used 1kWh both times. When I checked the battery temp in CarScanner, it was showing the battery temp as 41F so a bit above freezing.

 

[Maxx]

This is how much my truck used in past 24 hours to keep the battery warm in Maryland.

 

[TaxmanHog]

Come on over to this thread for a deep dive on the finer details of how spontaneous battery conditioning is occurring from my and few other members experiences.

Intentional cold soak -15

This morning my truck did a combination battery warming and charging session all wrapped into one activity. This morning It took an extra 5.6 kWh of energy to warm the battery to prepare it for accepting a charge.

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