And yet this morning starting with a frozen truck it didn't break 58* the whole hour drive. When I put the sensor right on top of the defrost vent it hit 68. So best I can tell, the cabin sensor is located somewhere incredibly close to a supply vent and is therefore sending out air at the set point but not a high enough temp to actually warm my cabin to the set point. Will test again tomorrow.
unless you need the extra range of a more efficient preconditioned battery, I wonder if using shore power to precondition is burning more or less KWh of house electricity than just enduring the less efficient mi/KWh of an unconditioned battery during your daily commute?
I have been leaving mine at 68 F lately and it has been fine every time. I don't doubt people could have issues occasionally but there are probably specific variables causing it. Maybe humidity levels?
Blended braking typically refers to blending regen on the brake pedal...not using brakes while lifting off the throttle because you failed at designing your cooling system properly. The R1 problem is that it starts limiting regen while descending long grades and "something" overheats. For me, it doesn't happen very often and usually when it does I'm going slow enough that the decreased regen is still sufficient to maintain speed. The absolute *last* thing any of us living in the mountains wants to see is the system dragging the brakes constantly going downhill to maintain speed because it will then overheat the brakes...and then you're fucked. Pikes Peak, for instance, has a brake check station where they literally will measure the temperature of your brakes and keep you there if they're too hot. As others have mentioned, if you really do lose enough regen that you need the friction brakes, then they should be applied such that you bleed off speed and then release the brakes until the speed creeps up "too much" and repeat. Continually dragging is bad.
Simply saying “no” would suffice. Not everyone reads every post in a many pages long thread.
Fair enough, thanks for the explanation. I’m glad it’s optional for those worried about this situation but I’m very glad to have this available; it’s very annoying when my truck is limiting regen and doesn’t slow down consistently in regular driving.
Or maybe sensor faults and the system reverting to some secondary less accurate method. Mine works so perfectly I have to think something isn't working correctly in people's trucks that don't work darn near "perfectly".
Ideal would probably to use the free heat of charging, meaning a calculated start time prior to scheduled departure, and then the pack would be heated simply from the process of charging. Otherwise the charging heating will be lost to environment by the time the preconditioning starts and then all that heat has to be physically added back.
This happens Every. Single. Time. You would think people who have had their R1 for a year would be aware of this by now.
