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Charge Timing Without Preconditioning

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Schedule the start time not the departure time.
I still believes it conditions the interior for that one as well. What leads me to believe that is the wording. It has a checkbox that says: "only precondition on weekdays". Why would it use the word "precondition" if it doesn't do the interior? If it only charged the battery it would say something like "don't charge on weekdays". I really hope I'm wrong though.
 
The "precondition" option only works if you schedule a departure time. You can't turn off preconditioning (as far as I know) if you're using departure time. You can only set it to precondition every day vs only weekdays.

If you use the "Start charging at" setting instead departure time, it will NOT precondition the cabin while charging. I have my charging start everyday at 7PM (10PM during the summer to help with the peak load), there's no cabin preconditioning that happens because it has no idea when I'm going to drive the car.