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Thanks. I am plugging into a regular 120V outlet - I'm planning on upgrading to 240V. Thing is, I've charged up in garages with 240V, with the same result. I will mess around with just leaving the heater off, though I don't foresee actually driving around with no heat at all when it's below freezing. Your description of the range dropping by about 7 miles brings up another point. At times, especially in the first week after I brought the car home, the range would be around 17-19, and would then immediately drop to 10-15 within a split second. I suspect that delay was the car recalculating the estimated range based on the ambient temperature, and maybe based on the heater starting up. I haven't seen an engine block heater plug, I will check again. I still wonder whether having the engine heated up at first might provide a bit more heat to the cabin or other components that wouldn't have to be drawn from the battery.

I got a Fusion Energi 4 weeks ago now. It has been a cold month, and I understand that causes lower mileage and low estimates of range from the car. Temps here have been between 0 and 25 deg in the morning. Still, even with using every bit of advice I have read here and elsewhere, the car estimates (fairly accurately) a EV range of 12 miles on average (10-15). This includes regular use of Go times, staying bundled up in the car with the heat turned down, using the seat heater at medium, driving conservatively and only on city streets, braking smoothly, etc. I have had a 15 mile range on only one morning out of about 28 mornings so far. I am fairly disappointed, but looking forward to seeing how performance improves this spring. In the cold weather thread, I see another Minneapolitan claiming to get 20 miles EV range in similar temperatures, down from 25 no less. This makes me wonder if my battery is defective, or if it still needs time to become fully "primed". Questions: 1) Is it possible that my battery is faulty, to be getting only 10miles EV range? 2) Who has a block heater installed? How did you do this? 3) Has EV range seemed to go down in newer models? Many of the higher estimates I have seen have been in 2013 models. 4) Who else here averages 10-12 miles EV range in the winter? Do you really see that improve to 20-25 miles EV range in warmer months? Thanks in advance.