Apple CarPlay PRECONDITIONING AND ROUTE PLANNING

@Hak8711 actually the Ford MME does not precondition the battery before DC fast charging. Whether you use native maps or Apple CarPlay; either way, it doesn’t do any sort of preconditioning. I cannot say for sure if that has changed in a more recent update; it has been ~5 months since I traded my Ford MME GT in for the Polestar 2. And I don’t know if the same was case for F150 Lightning truck.

As noted by @kyledag500 what the issue here is not that the routing occurs. Yes the Ford MME had CarPlay routing; but more so, does it preheat battery for optimal DC fast charging? If you use Google Maps on our Polestar/Volvo cars, the battery is optimized just before arrival to the charger. Since CarPlay is pulling SOC from the car, but likely not “sharing” back to the car the details of the destination, it stands to reason the car doesn’t know when you’re stopping, or where you are stopping. It may not be aware to precondition.

I’ve yet to see any articles that clearly state that Porsche‘s CarPlay integration (via this update) handles that.

Hak8711 said:

But with the porche and the ford you can always manually precondition it as with polestar you can’t

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I’ve owned 98 vehicles, about a third of those are EVS. Off the top of my head the only car I recall having a preconditioning button was the Lucid Air. I do not remember there being a “pre DC fast charge precondition button” on the Taycan; it works by means of self occurrence when it sees the destination set is a charger in the native navigation. So even for the Porsche to perform this task, it requires native nav running.

Ford, on the other hand, has ZERO preconditioning (again that I’m aware of; subject to change if there have been software updates in the last 6 months since i sold mine). Even with nav running, DC fast chargers in nav or not, the battery made no effort to improve fast charging sessions. There was no way around this.

On the flip side—- Polestar (and Volvo) most definitely -do- precondition the battery. If you are using Google Maps built into the car, and your destination is a DC fast charger, it will precondition the battery prior to arrival. You can easily see this by means of the Range app, which will show real time usage of energy; it peaks much higher than normal as you near the charger. If you cancel the nav, you can see it go back down. There are YouTube videos that corroborate this experience too.