Tesla Motors Club
Is it right that running the HVAC when the car is plugged in uses the battery as its power source?
I run my overnight charge with a scheduled start time of 12:30am controlled by the car (my home charge point is 'on' all the time). So normally the car reaches its 90% limit by early morning.
I then have a TeslaFi schedule to warm the car using the HVAC at around 8:15am so the car is nice and toasty when I leave for work.
I thought that the power for the HVAC would come from the home charge point but it seems to come (at least in part?) from the battery. For example, running the HVAC for 10 minutes this morning used up 2.56 miles of range -
Is that normal behaviour or am I doing something daft?
I run my overnight charge with a scheduled start time of 12:30am controlled by the car (my home charge point is 'on' all the time). So normally the car reaches its 90% limit by early morning.
I then have a TeslaFi schedule to warm the car using the HVAC at around 8:15am so the car is nice and toasty when I leave for work.
I thought that the power for the HVAC would come from the home charge point but it seems to come (at least in part?) from the battery. For example, running the HVAC for 10 minutes this morning used up 2.56 miles of range -
Is that normal behaviour or am I doing something daft?