A few things learned yesterday when setting up cabin preheating via a schedule when plugged in using scheduling and departure settings.
1. if you set though Blue Link on your phone, both 1 and 2 in the car change to the last departure set through the phone. So if you set Departure A to 8:00 AM, in the car Departure 1 and 2 set to 8AM. If you set Departure B to 9:00 PM, they both go to 9:00 PM in the car. What I found is you have to set BlueLink on your phone first and then in the car, correct the issue under the EV menu. Be advised the phone never corrects to the car’s correct settings.
2. The departure process did not work at all yesterday AM. I had to call Tech support and reset the Audio system via the reset button on the dash. Then click the BlueLink Icon on the car screen and click “reconfigure” or the top option. (BTW mine shows BlueLink expired 3 weeks ago and that did not change). Then shut off the car, exit, lock the doors, and issue a command like”climate start”. This seemed to reset and allow the schedule to work properly.
3. This AM it worked perfectly. The car was toasty 76f, windows defrosted, at 7:10 AM, the battery was warm and it worked as it should. I lost no battery capacity.
4. See photos of the issue between Blue Link and the car. Showing the time issue.
5. Since I have free charging at work, I did not want the car to charge at home so I set the battery AC percentage to 50% on Blue Link. The only power drawn was battery and cabin preheating. See picture showing it only pulled power for warming the car about 30 mins before I left at 7:04 AM.
6. The cost of preheating my car was $0.40.
1. if you set though Blue Link on your phone, both 1 and 2 in the car change to the last departure set through the phone. So if you set Departure A to 8:00 AM, in the car Departure 1 and 2 set to 8AM. If you set Departure B to 9:00 PM, they both go to 9:00 PM in the car. What I found is you have to set BlueLink on your phone first and then in the car, correct the issue under the EV menu. Be advised the phone never corrects to the car’s correct settings.
2. The departure process did not work at all yesterday AM. I had to call Tech support and reset the Audio system via the reset button on the dash. Then click the BlueLink Icon on the car screen and click “reconfigure” or the top option. (BTW mine shows BlueLink expired 3 weeks ago and that did not change). Then shut off the car, exit, lock the doors, and issue a command like”climate start”. This seemed to reset and allow the schedule to work properly.
3. This AM it worked perfectly. The car was toasty 76f, windows defrosted, at 7:10 AM, the battery was warm and it worked as it should. I lost no battery capacity.
4. See photos of the issue between Blue Link and the car. Showing the time issue.
5. Since I have free charging at work, I did not want the car to charge at home so I set the battery AC percentage to 50% on Blue Link. The only power drawn was battery and cabin preheating. See picture showing it only pulled power for warming the car about 30 mins before I left at 7:04 AM.
6. The cost of preheating my car was $0.40.
