[Ian Mac]

Thanks. Here is mine expirence. I have EV2022 with upadate from december 2022. The preheating should work. I was starting navigation to DC charging station about 20 min before reaching it. On highway with 120/130 km/h (sorry Europe ) speed, tempertur about 0 celcius degree. Charging speed start about 60 kwh , then maybe went up to 70-80 kWh. On the same charging point in summer / spring , the same car, it was 200 kwh. So it was disappointing for me. Maybe car needs more time for preheating. And I can not use on the same time car Nav and Apple CarPlay - google. When I start google maps then it cancel car Nav.

Nothing to do with when you updated your infotainment software. It's the build date of the vehicle. Most 22 models do not have preheating - only the last month or so of that model year (july/august?).
You can tell if you have preconditioning on your car as it will have a Preconditioning Option in the menus, instead of Winter Mode. Also when you navigate to the charger and the preconditioning is heating the battery, a little snowflake icon appears in the battery level indicator on the bottom left of the speedometer screen. MY23 models this changes to a little red squiggly line.
I've reverted to using Bluetooth audio/In car Nav. Android Auto is nice, but the occasional dropout makes it unusable. Android Auto is a great replacement for all the shitty infotainment/nav software that comes with many cars, but actually the EV6 one is pretty decent.

 

[alecboldwin30]

Nothing to do with when you updated your infotainment software. It's the build date of the vehicle. Most 22 models do not have preheating - only the last month or so of that model year (july/august?).
You can tell if you have preconditioning on your car as it will have a Preconditioning Option in the menus, instead of Winter Mode. Also when you navigate to the charger and the preconditioning is heating the battery, a little snowflake icon appears in the battery level indicator on the bottom left of the speedometer screen. MY23 models this changes to a little red squiggly line.
I've reverted to using Bluetooth audio/In car Nav. Android Auto is nice, but the occasional dropout makes it unusable. Android Auto is a great replacement for all the shitty infotainment/nav software that comes with many cars, but actually the EV6 one is pretty decent.

Thank you!
That is now clear why is not working. I don’t have those option.

Press-realess Kia is informing:

• Battery conditioning now available on all MY22 EV6 models!!!!
• Frankfurt, October 20, 2022 – Kia customers who were among the first to acquire a highly-acclaimed all-electric EV6 crossover can now upgrade their vehicle to enable even faster charging in colder conditions. The battery conditioning feature, which is fitted as standard on MY23 EV6 models, the new EV6 GT and the all-new Niro EV, is now being offered as an optional retrofit with all MY22 EV6 models, overcoming the slower charging speeds that can occur with all battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in colder temperatures.

Kia offers EV6 software update for faster cold-weather charging

Kia customers who were among the first to acquire a highly-acclaimed all-electric EV6 crossover can now upgrade their vehicle to enable even faster charging in colder conditions.

press.kia.com

So that’s why I was counting that update will help. For me is clear “disinformation”…
Sorry to hear that.

 

[Ian Mac]

Thank you!
That is now clear why is not working. I don’t have those option.

Press-realess Kia is informing:

• Battery conditioning now available on all MY22 EV6 models!!!!
• Frankfurt, October 20, 2022 – Kia customers who were among the first to acquire a highly-acclaimed all-electric EV6 crossover can now upgrade their vehicle to enable even faster charging in colder conditions. The battery conditioning feature, which is fitted as standard on MY23 EV6 models, the new EV6 GT and the all-new Niro EV, is now being offered as an optional retrofit with all MY22 EV6 models, overcoming the slower charging speeds that can occur with all battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in colder temperatures.

Kia offers EV6 software update for faster cold-weather charging

Kia customers who were among the first to acquire a highly-acclaimed all-electric EV6 crossover can now upgrade their vehicle to enable even faster charging in colder conditions.

press.kia.com

So that’s why I was counting that update will help. For me is clear “disinformation”…
Sorry to hear that.

It's more a case of Kia Global, UK, EU and US not having much of a clue and not supporting the dealer network correctly. There will (people hope) be a global rollout of a "software" update to fix this.
There are 2 types of update. The infotainment/nav update and a dealer only "drivetrain" update as I would call it. In Norway this has already been rolled out to dealers, but I think customers have to pay a small fee. Other countries are waiting still. Poland will probably be last

 

[alansh42]

The update requires the latest infotainment update (to provide the menu option for preconditioning), and also requires an update to the Battery Management System (BMS) ECU, which can only be updated at the dealer. So far the ECU update hasn't been released in the US.

 

[monkhai]

Interesting to see this, as this was a major contributor to why I cancelled a MY22 order even though the car was in the country.

Kia have different official answers on preconditioning coming to the 22 and I just couldn’t take this risk especially when the cost savings were vaporising by the day.

I really feel for anyone with a 22 as Kia have badly let them down after advertising 18 minutes but not offering the update everywhere.

 

[Durham EV6]

Thank you!
That is now clear why is not working. I don’t have those option.

Press-realess Kia is informing:

• Battery conditioning now available on all MY22 EV6 models!!!!
• Frankfurt, October 20, 2022 – Kia customers who were among the first to acquire a highly-acclaimed all-electric EV6 crossover can now upgrade their vehicle to enable even faster charging in colder conditions. The battery conditioning feature, which is fitted as standard on MY23 EV6 models, the new EV6 GT and the all-new Niro EV, is now being offered as an optional retrofit with all MY22 EV6 models, overcoming the slower charging speeds that can occur with all battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in colder temperatures.

Kia offers EV6 software update for faster cold-weather charging

Kia customers who were among the first to acquire a highly-acclaimed all-electric EV6 crossover can now upgrade their vehicle to enable even faster charging in colder conditions.

press.kia.com

So that’s why I was counting that update will help. For me is clear “disinformation”…
Sorry to hear that.

I've just booked mine in for the update, thanks for that info! 👍

 

[Ian Mac]

Here's an interesting update to my experience. 9 degrees C, under 15 percent battery. Preconditioning did not activate on the way to the Ionity charger. I guess for battery saving reaons (or maybe the battery was deemed warm enough). 15 to 80 took 31 minutes. I had a chat with a chap charging and ID3 for 5 mins and then had to wolf down my Maccy Ds! I was worried it was going to take a lot longer, so it seems like the preconditioning only has a big effect in freezing weather.

 

[tangey]

Here's an interesting update to my experience. 9 degrees C, under 15 percent battery. Preconditioning did not activate on the way to the Ionity charger. I guess for battery saving reaons (or maybe the battery was deemed warm enough). 15 to 80 took 31 minutes. I had a chat with a chap charging and ID3 for 5 mins and then had to wolf down my Maccy Ds! I was worried it was going to take a lot longer, so it seems like the preconditioning only has a big effect in freezing weather.

You got about 100KW per H charging over the 30mins

 

[Durham EV6]

Car serviced, and updated, apparently. I should now have the preconditioning option, but have I? How can I tell they've done the update? And if I have, how does the preconditioning work, how would I use it?

 

[KiaevCan]

Car serviced, and updated, apparently. I should now have the preconditioning option, but have I? How can I tell they've done the update? And if I have, how does the preconditioning work, how would I use it?

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It’ll be the same location as the Winter Mode.

EV screen then Settings (bottom right)

 

[tonester]

Go to Setup -> EV, then check on the left-hand side of the infotainment display whether it lists Winter Mode or Battery Preconditioning.

Also--I thought the battery preconditioning update for pre-July 2022 EV6 wasn't tentatively scheduled for release until late March?

 

[KiaevCan]

Go to Setup -> EV, then check on the left-hand side of the infotainment display whether it lists Winter Mode or Battery Preconditioning.

Also--I thought the battery preconditioning update for pre-July 2022 EV6 wasn't tentatively scheduled for release until late March?

He’s in the UK.

 

[Durham EV6]

Still in winter mode, obviously haven't updated it, and also a dent in the door... Not a very successful visit to Kia!

Only needs a little top-up as we're traveling in the early hours, but will, 30 mins to full?

I'm out of the country next week so will have to pick it up with them on my return.

 

[alecboldwin30]

Hi,
Just to inform you how i get upgrade.
I did it at the beginning of March but maybe it was earlier available I’m not sure. In Poland.
But I needed to request for it. It wasn’t like they gave this upgrade with regular maintenance. I needed to ask for it, and I needed to pay for it extra. What was for the surprise for me. But now I have it like someone already described it.