LEAFfan said:
But how will you do your pre-cooling when you want to leave an hour later after the car already has been charged?
Living in such a temperate climate, I have no need to pre-heat or cool, so I haven't tried that yet, but it seems to me there are several ways to do this. The easiest and most flexible way would be to use Carwings to activate pre-cooling remotely before you are about to leave. As long as the car is still plugged in and OFF, it should start immediately and pre-cool the car with power from the wall outlet, not the pack. I just tried it and it worked fine for me. The car is in the garage right now, plugged in and off, as charging to 80% was completed already around midnight last night. I opened another window in my browser, went to my Carwings account, and clicked on the "Turn On" button in the Climate Control section, and it sent a signal to the car to start. I walked out to the garage and checked, and the CC is indeed actuated and pre-conditioning the car right now. There is also a choice in that section of Carwings to set a CC timer remotely.
If you have a regular commute (which I don't) and want the car to be ready and preconditioned to leave at a certain time every weekday, you could set one of the the Climate Control timers in the car and not use the remote function through Carwings. From reading the manual, it appears there are two CC timers, separate from the two Charge Timers. See section 4-6 through 4-8. You can also set the priority to be higher for charging or for CC. It shouldn't matter whether the CC or charging has priority if your charging is normally completed hours before the CC timer starts. The manual warns that if charging is not completed, and it has priority, pre-cooling may not be completed before you leave.
This car is smarter than I am. Every time I think something is broken, it turns out to be user error (not understanding exactly how it works). It reminds me of my early days with computers, back in the late '60s. The darn computer would always do exactly what I told it to do, not what I WANTED it to do. Most of the time, I simply didn't know how to tell it to do what I wanted.
There's a learning curve involved here, just as with any complex device.
TT