No. It will just pre-enter navigation destinations based on calendar entries.
Are you on a time of day rate?
Yes, I'm on a dedicated EV charging plan where power is super cheap from 2300-0700.
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Less worried about preconditioning the battery, more so the cabin. It might not be a frigid wasteland down here in the winter months but we still get frost, and the summer mornings can be rather thick. I want my car defrosted and warmed when I go to leave, or dried and cooled in the summer. I used to accomplish this in winter using a small heater fan, timer, and extension cord in the ICE vehicles.
I've done the math on previous usage patterns (I'm an engineer, this is what I do...) with full hourly pricing records. Summer non-charging expenses are pretty much break-even, and winter should save us a ton since we have a heat pump and heat strips for aux (which run hardest when it's coldest out).
I've looked at both Teslafi and Tessie for the automation aspect. Not really sure it's worh the expense just for that. I am not interested in the detailed stats--that is, I am, but I know that's a rabbit hole I don't need to go down given my personality. I had a hybrid car for 3 years a while back and the real time stats and feedback just made me neurotic and led to me drifting to hypermiling and refusing to use the AC. I need to stay out of the stats and just enjoy driving the car.
(a) It still takes time. I timed it when I started cooling before leaving work, and it took about 8 minutes to get the temperature down.
The advantage is that, while we don't really save anything on the non-vehicle-charging loads during summer, it saved us at least $42 on charging costs. Or to put it another way, our bill would have been about $40 higher on the "normal" plan, with the only real behavior change being "don't run laundry in the middle of the day"--which of course is such a huge sacrifice.
I have exactly the same beef. There should be a third, one-time use option available on the scheduling menu that is only good for the next day.
I have a similar issue. My wife is a nurse and works a two week rolling schedule, so her schedule in week 1 is different then her schedule in week 2. So I cannot use the departure/preconditioning schedule within the app per se. Fortunately her departure time doesn't vary even though her workdays do, so on some days we just let the car precondition even when she doesn't work that day. I think the feature I'd like to see is two simple notifications that state your current selections - and validate whether you still want the schedule to apply for the next day - or if I want to "snooze" tomorrow's scheduled departure/precondition. We're iPhone users - so ideally I'd want a notification each evening - asking if I want to keep the scheduled precondition active - or if I want to snooze tomorrow's precondition schedule - so the app notication pop-up would say something like:
Agree. All it would take is a simple calendar update in the Schedule section of the app.
I don't know why I can't vote for this. I've set my departure for a day, then forgot that I did. So my car preconditioned every day until I discovered I left it on. Needs to have a "one time" setting.
