Ever had a huge difference in charging speeds just by preconditioning your car battery? It really changes the game when you’re in a rush.
Last week without preconditioning: 42kW max at Electrify America 350 kW station.
Yesterday with preconditioning: 152kW max at the same station.
Warm and toasty battery charged 3.5X as fast.
The UI for turning on preconditioning is a bear, but it’s worth figuring it out.
@Amari
It is a bear. I’d prefer an option to simply ask the car to turn on preconditioning.
Joey said:
@Amari
It is a bear. I’d prefer an option to simply ask the car to turn on preconditioning.
yes! I wish we could just have a button to activate.
Joey said:
@Amari
It is a bear. I’d prefer an option to simply ask the car to turn on preconditioning.
yes! I wish we could just have a button to activate.
This is yet another reason I am holding out for the 2025 and I hope they bring this to the previous models also.
@Iman
They have it on the uk 2025 models
@Iman
Would this not be a retroactive fit to older MYs?
Lyle said:
@Iman
Would this not be a retroactive fit to older MYs?
I do not know. It is software but I don’t know how much of the new system this requires nor if Hyundai is planning to bring it to previous models.
Joey said:
@Amari
It is a bear. I’d prefer an option to simply ask the car to turn on preconditioning.
You KIND OF can. Just hit the voice prompt and say “Navigate to the nearest charging station”, then confirm. It should start preconditioning within a minute or two, unless the nearest charger is very far away.
Joey said:
@Amari
It is a bear. I’d prefer an option to simply ask the car to turn on preconditioning.
Indeed, yesterday I drove to an all new supercharger that was not yet in the navigation. So I had to work my way around by choosing another chargingstation further away. Result was that it only preconditioned for a minute or 2…
@Val
How do you know if it is preconditioning
Little wire icon on the battery logo on the center display https://images.app.goo.gl/as8Py8GLp8uhZTTu8
Joey said:
@Amari
It is a bear. I’d prefer an option to simply ask the car to turn on preconditioning.
Really? I just bring up the charging stations and touch the one I’m heading to. Done! Then, after you’ve done it once for that station, just pull up previous destinations on the NAV and touch it. Done! What am I missing, it doesn’t get much easier. Turning it on manually is more complicated because then you have to remember to turn it off a ways before you get to charger. Just touching the screen and letting it handle it automatically seems the way to go for me.
@Ainsley
There are several reasons why I don’t like it. I prefer to use Waze over the native navigation system and one can’t use both at the same time.
As another poster mentioned, not all charging stations are listed, such as the newer ones.
I think the user experience isn’t very good compared to other apps.
And the native nav system does not clearly tell you that preconditioning will actually turn on. You have to wait until the indicator icon appears. I’ve had a couple of surprises when preconditioning was disabled in the setup menu, which I think happened after updates.
So I have to dig through a low quality user experience, not use my preferred nav, hope that the charger I want is listed, and then wait and see if it all actually works.
@Joey
Preconditioning will disable if you change the battery charge ranges in the app. It’s really strange. I don’t think this happens if you change the ranges in the car, though.
@Joey
Don’t blame the car if you choose to not use the tools that it provides.
Ainsley said:
@Joey
Don’t blame the car if you choose to not use the tools that it provides.
I do use the tools. I don’t think they are optimally designed.
Given that Hyundai added a preconditioning button to the 5N (based on what another poster mentioned), it would see that they agree.
Companies look at posts like this to see points of friction with their products. We are helping make the product better by pointing out areas of improvement in a reasonable way.
Ainsley said:
@Joey
Don’t blame the car if you choose to not use the tools that it provides.
How about blaming the car if the tool it provides is lousy enough that you resent having to use it?
> not all charging stations are listed, such as the newer ones.
> the charging stations listed in the POI menu to activate the preconditioning do not include a lot of networks
> turns off when you are close to destination, so if you get there and it’s full and you have to wait in line your preconditioning goes away
> automatically shuts off at 20%
> on road trips previous destinations won’t work
@Mal
To each his own. I preconditioned and charged yesterday, pushed 3 buttons
@Ainsley
Soo many reasons. In addition to what u/GnuRomantic wrote, on road trips previous destinations won’t work. Also it automatically shuts off at 20%. If I’m gonna roll in at 15% or less, I still know I’m going to make it and I want my battery ready for charging.
My biggest gripes with this vehicle is no manual control of pre-conditioning and climate start doesn’t offer warming the seat ( well the app is pretty lame and could use a complete revamp, but I’m working with what is there).