First sub -10°C day, how to preheat?

Pretty sure you can’t lock the car in READY unless the fob is in the car. Remote Connect will let you preheat the car remotely with the vehicle locked.

 

The AC button on the fob is all you need. When you press & hold, it starts up running whatever temperature setting you had previously set.

 

I missed the "sub" part. Knowing it will actually work slightly lower, it was worth the mention.

For me, I never preheat. It's just jump in and drive. Putting the car into Charge-Mode will generate heat faster, since that runs the engine with a higher load. But that only works if you don't have a SOC over 80%.

 

Are you resigned to starting the engine? If so, install the engine block heater?

 

That is too easy and low tech. I know even hotel parking lots in Canada usually have outdoor receptacles for the purpose.

 

Yeah we were up in Williams Lake in October. There was mandatory snow tire regulations (as of October 01) in place, and of course it was still lovely, shirt-sleeve weather. Most of the parking spots at our hotel verged on medians with weatherproof AC outlets. F150’s abound; guess everyone knows what’s coming.

 

No, just the interior. Not sure where the boundary is. I suppose most years October 01 would be sensible, but it was a last gasp of summer when we went up.

myself, in Vancouver, I put our snows on quite early. We’re only doing about 5k kms a year, sometimes driving only once a week, so I’ll just swap them while the weathers still nice. No matter what I do the snows will age out before they wear out, lol.

 

That definitely falls into the overkill category.