Basically, its function is to heat (or cool) the main battery to 70 degrees F so that when you using a Fast DC charger (does not work with Level 1 or 2 charging). You must set navigation to a charging site that has a DC Charger for it to work so the battery charges quickly. Usually you need to drive about 30 minutes or 30 miles.

Here's a Youtube video:

 

Lol, what kind of clunky-ass design is that? Is that really the best user flow they could come up with?

 

Pre conditioning will also work when you use blue-link to start the cars climate control.
Very handy here in the winter so far I've seen, as a correctly tempered battery will accept regen better, and have a better performance.

But if you mainly do short runs, it might not pay of using it. (Just a km or three)

 

Pre conditioning will also work when you use blue-link to start the cars climate control.
Very handy here in the winter so far I've seen, as a correctly tempered battery will accept regen better, and have a better performance.

But if you mainly do short runs, it might not pay of using it. (Just a km or three)

Is there any harm having it on all the time? Can you even keep it on all the time thru winter?

 

As far as I know, precon only works when you are driving to a DC charging site via navigation. Your battery % at bottom left of the display will show a "coil" or "snowflake" symbol that it is active. Just plugging your charger at home will not work. You cannot use B-L to set precon. You have to do it in the car.

 

The vehicle has no interface to External nav systems so it has no to determine the destination is to a charger or when it is 30 min away

 

it may be because precon takes a lot of power they don't want you to waste your battery. if you left it on, that would be a problem

 

I believe that the Kia EV9 has a button to manually turn on battery pre-conditioning so I don't know why this isn't an option on the Ioniq 6.

 

This is correct but they use different Infotainment systems. I rather like the Kia version better than what we have in the I6 and wish they would port it over. At the very least, I'm hoping that a future OTA update might add the manual preconditioning option.

 

Not sure of earlier years but our 24 has a manual method of turning pre conditioning on and off. Go into EV settings and there is a option to pre condition, it is NOT dependant on navigating to an EV station, try it

 

That is the check box to ENABLE preconditioning when you use the nav to a charger

 

That's not possible on the I6. Must be with navigation.

 

Seems to me the people saying you can precondition independently of nav are in Canada. Those who say it only happens when you navigate to a charge station (with which I agree) are in the US. Why is it not possible that both sides are right?

Does all of north America get the same software, or do Canada and US get different versions? Or maybe even the same version that is enabled differently for the two regions?

 

Seems to me the people saying you can precondition independently of nav are in Canada. Those who say it only happens when you navigate to a charge station (with which I agree) are in the US. Why is it not possible that both sides are right?

Its possible, US customers dont have HUD.

 

or heated rear seats but I believe the pre-con in both countries has to be with the navigation.

 

I am in Canada, and mine only works when you set a charging destination through the Nav. And you have to have the switch on in the EV settings to enable that. When the pre-conditioning is happening you will see the little coil on the bottom left side of the dash.

 

As has been said previously in other post, if you change the % charge in BlueLink, the PreCon gets unchecked and you have to go to your car and reselect PreCon (SW bug.

 

Yes that one got me again two weeks ago (ioniq 5).

I wondered at first why preconditioning hadn't started then remembered I had changed (AC) max charge % the previous week. Fortunately I was able to turn it back on while driving and preconditioning then started (wasn't sure if that would work during the same drive but it did) on my way to an EA charger. Got 43kWh in 16 mins at max of 180kW which wasn't bad as car had been sitting outside all night at below 40F. Drive was about 10 miles after I turned on preconditioning on and yes the EA charger was set as the destination in car navigation.

 

The only time I have seen the icon is when I set a fast charger as a destination in car's nav. Also once your battery drops below 20% pre-conditioning stops.

 

I agree, basically. On mine, it actually stops at 18% if it is going before 20% SOC.

 

I have to apologize to you all. I am totally wrong about battery pre conditioning. Im a fairly new owner and my mout overtook my brain. I do have to enter a charging station location into my nav before it comes. All I can say is Im sorry guys and gals. Thanks for not being as rude as I was😰

 

Thank you for the mea culpa, and clarifying there are not different regional or trim/model year differences with the feature.

It's all good, we all get ideas in our heads and need a little humility every now and then to bring us to reality. It is part of the human experience!