[Raj]

Can auto heating of batteries be turned off? Is it on all the time??

 

[R.I.P.]

It is controlled by the BMS, it cannot be turned off (that is a good thing).

 

[Phil.blog]

The battery temperatures need to be maintained for the proper function and life expectancy of the battery. So as @R.I.P. mentioned, you can't turn it off, nor would you want to if you could.

 

[chillaban]

Just to clarify, there’s an always on feature to keep your battery temp from being extremely low or high for the health of the battery. It appears more aggressive when plugged in vs unplugged but you cannot disable this nor should you.

Meanwhile, there is a Remote Start and Departure Time feature that more aggressively brings the battery to an ideal temp for max performance. The latter is the most aggressive. Those are opt in features that you have to activate or configure.

 

[btreece]

Just to clarify, there’s an always on feature to keep your battery temp from being extremely low or high for the health of the battery. It appears more aggressive when plugged in vs unplugged but you cannot disable this nor should you.

Meanwhile, there is a Remote Start and Departure Time feature that more aggressively brings the battery to an ideal temp for max performance. The latter is the most aggressive. Those are opt in features that you have to activate or configure.

The real bummer for me is that the Remote Start feature requires cell connectivity for the vehicle so I cannot use this at home. Luckily, my garage is heated to 55 degrees all winter.

 

[LightningLAB]

The real bummer for me is that the Remote Start feature requires cell connectivity for the vehicle so I cannot use this at home. Luckily, my garage is heated to 55 degrees all winter.

I'm not sure it requires cell connectivity. Did you connect your truck to your home WiFi?

 

[everiklevine]

I'm not sure it requires cell connectivity. Did you connect your truck to your home WiFi?

I'm going to start another thread, but I was just wondering the same thing. I just arrived at our cabin where we have no cell service (we use call-over-WiFi for our phones). Lightning is hooked up both to our cabin WiFi, and to BlueTooth, to the phone, but I cannot get FordPass updates (battery charge level) or control any remote features (lock, unlock, start).

 

[btreece]

I'm not sure it requires cell connectivity. Did you connect your truck to your home WiFi?

Yes, truck is connected to home wi-fi. I have never gotten an OTA update at home. I did get one when driving once (where I had good cell coverage).

 

[chillaban]

Yeah it seems like other than the Bluetooth based features, the rest of the FordPass functions are only over cellular, not WiFi.