How to ready truck for charging?

[MyOtherTruck]

I live across the street from a Mall that has Tesla Chargers. How do I communicate to the truck that we are gong to charge it up? I am not on a consistent schedule so creating a schedule doesnt work for me. Any ideas?

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[CarMan ElecTruck]

If it is that close I don’t think PreConditioning (via route planing destination to the charger) will be ready in time for the ‘efficient’ charge..

therefore, just “open butthole” and plug it in.. simple

 

[REM]

I live across the street from a Mall that has Tesla Chargers. How do I communicate to the truck that we are gong to charge it up? I am not on a consistent schedule so creating a schedule doesnt work for me. Any ideas?

you can open up maps from your phone, and share the location to the Tesla app. The truck should pickup that it is navigating to a supercharger, and will start pre-heating the battery.

 

[furbyland]

I live across the street from a Mall that has Tesla Chargers. How do I communicate to the truck that we are gong to charge it up? I am not on a consistent schedule so creating a schedule doesnt work for me. Any ideas?

Use the app to schedule preconditioning before heading to charge. Depending on outside temp/battery temp, you may have to allow 15-30 minutes if it's quite cold. If it's already say 70 degrees, you are likely to get no additional help from doing a preconditioning. You can always experiment...

 

[Jager]

"Preconditioning" to raise the temp of a cold-soaked pack so the snowflake and bacon strips go away involves bringing pack temps to a bit above 50F. That happens when you initiate Climate, either directly or via scheduling.

"Preconditioning" for a Supercharger session involves bring pack temp to ~120F.

Big difference.

So a lot depends on whether your Mall chargers are L2 chargers or L3 DC Fast Chargers.

Regardless, for both situations, your best bet is to hit those chargers on the way home from a drive, instead of when heading out.

 

[JimBuck333]

Preconditioning costs money, and since you are across the street from the Supercharger rather than out on a road trip (which usually means that time is of the essence), just plan for a slightly-longer charge session at the Supercharger, and forget about preconditioning at home (and the time involved in that) altogether.
(From what I have seen, the charge rate will speed up over time as the battery warms up from all the supercharging being done--conditioning as it goes, so to speak--so that things aren't so bad compared to preconditioning anyway...)

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