Kia Battery Preconditioning is Worthless

TL;DR : Kia battery preconditioning cannot be depended on to actually work.

In case you had not noticed, in order to use the Kia battery preconditioning, you have to pay Kia a monthly fee and must use their mediocre navigation system. You have to push in the DCFC as a destination for the preconditioning to enable. Did you know that Kia periodically turns off enabling that on your car, probably monthly in case you don't pay for the service anymore? And did you know if you turn it back on in your car, it requires Kia's cloud servers to actually be enabled and to work. You can turn that button on and off all you want in your car, but it will do you no good. No Kia cloud server, no preconditioning.

How do I know? I did a two day road trip in mostly below freezing weather and could never get preconditioning to be enabled. Even spoke to Kia tech support, who was very nice and kind and such, with a sorry about that response. Many hours of time were wasted waiting to recharge. (Interestingly, about 30 minutes after I called the Kia app started the message about issues.)

No preconditioning turns that fancy 800V architecture to charge at 320KW into a Nissan Leaf for charging. Be prepared when plugging into a fancy (and surprisingly working) EA 350KW charger to get a 44KW charge rate. Translated into sitting for over an hour to get enough charge to get to the next DCFC.

There is no reason there cannot be a button to enable battery preconditioning. Paying a pretty large sum of money for the vehicle only to have it pre-enshittified for a marginal revenue extraction really sucks.

WTB: preconditioning button in the console that does not depend on some broken cloud server.