Potential Range Issue?

[Donald Stanfield]

We have gotten these sorts of threads every winter since I’ve been on this forum. Cold weather makes a significant impact to range. This is true for every EV.

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[Dave Cundiff]

We have gotten these sorts of threads every winter since I’ve been on this forum. Cold weather makes a significant impact to range. This is true for every EV.

And for ICE vehicles too -- heating fuel and air to combustion temperatures has a price. We don't notice it as much, though, because ICE vehicle refueling is ubiquitous, reliable, and quick.

When I tracked fuel economy in an ICE vehicle, I remember 10-20% less efficiency in Midwest winters.

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[SPITmadFIRE]

Now I’m confused. I thought you precondition the battery before fast charging. You’re saying you precondition before you travel in cold weather

The vehicle preconditions in two scenarios:

• DCFC selected in vehicle nav when the battery is too cold/warm for optimal charging, OR
• Climate schedule is used to schedule an upcoming drive while the vehicle is plugged into an L2 charger and "Pull from charger to maintain range" option is selected.

 

[Taco Corp]

Stupid question, but is there a specific way to tell the truck to pre-condition, or does it just do this automatically when plugged in?

The Gen1 vehicles have a climate schedule so you can tell the truck to heat/cool turn on sest heaters etc.. for a departure time from your home location.

Gen2 doesn't have this yet, I really miss it having moves to Gen2 a couple weeks ago. In the near term I just use the app to wake it up and then the heat on before I leave in the morning.

On longer drives I usually turn down the cabin heat as soon as I unplug from the charger to save energy for driving and budget time for an additional stop.

 

[LL75]

short trips efficiency in cold weather is absolutely the worst. I'm getting sub 2.0 in Dallas in the morning and it is in the high 30s/low 40s.

 

[Golfer04]

At least in my trip yesterday......route planner doesn't yet have Tesla chargers as potential charging options. I had a 50 percent charge (software range is 202 miles) and I had 96 miles to get home. Route planner said I wouldn't make it. I'm in Springfield and headed west of Peoria. It routes me to the EA charger in Normal instead of the Tesla charger in East Peoria. Normal is 50 miles out of my way and EP is closer. I searched the nav for Tesla superchargers and the EP location showed up. Navigated there, preconditioned, etc. Btw, nav was correct....I would not have made it home.

Also, quite a few Circle Ks now have their own branded 180kw chargers. They don't show up in nav either. There is one in Morton (across street to the west from Farm & Fleet) and one in Normal on rte 9 south of Rivian.

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