anonymouse
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Just to encourage others, here is a 2100-mile 2-week road trip we've just done. Nine concerts, three operas, half a dozen castles and some museums. Five hotels, four apartments.
Map produced by Tronity (which I don't recommend - it is full of bugs, some of which are down to Porsche not collecting/sending data properly -- eg the straight line at the top left of the map).
Mechanically, the Taycan performed flawlessly all the time and is an absolute dream on the Autobahn. Its strong acceleration from 130-245+ km/h is enough to cause quite a lot of complaints from the front-seat passenger
. Electric is definitely the way to go: charging infrastructure on European major routes is excellent. We didn't once hit a congestion issue at the chargers. On long stretches in France ALK/Innodrive took some of the strain.
We had three software faults, as sadly seems the norm for this car. Porsche's software really is fragile.
First we lost lane keeping (various fault messages displayed) and Innodrive. Rebooting didn't help, and although it looked like a hardware failure it was just another software bug. The disabled functionality came back after the car slept over a lunch break.
At another point the whole PCM froze, not even allowing a 2-finger reboot. We fixed that by parking and turning the car off and on again.
Later we lost traffic data -- right when we were trying to route around the notorious Antwerp ring road -- and this came back an hour later. There is no notification in the car that traffic data is unavailable, just an absence of markings on the map. And for this leg of the journey Porsche also failed to send consistent data to Tronity, again suggesting it was a Porsche server issue. (I had this once before, in that cast lasting for two days, and it was a server failure at the Porsche end.)
And of course there were other minor software quirks, eg reporting that we had reached the destination when at the very start of our journey. We are used to those now.
Some trouble charging at Engie at Eurotunnel France. The third time we have failed to charge there. Three different payment methods were authorised and started charging, stopping a minute later after 0 kW. I called Engie's helpdesk who didn't know what to do. Bizarrely an adjoining stall worked first time. There is a Tesla charger opposite but annoyingly they have not removed the bump stops so unless one specific stall is free, a Taycan can't be charged.
As always for overnight stops in transit, we recommend the Valk hotels when travelling through NL and adjoining areas. They are super comfortable, located right on the motorway, and have excellent charging options from slow (for overnight parking) through to Ionity or Tesla Superchargers.
Overall we had a great trip: the Taycan is a fabulous touring car -- although we do set off with some trepidation each day in case a software bug prevents travelling. I never had that nervousness when driving a Tesla in Europe. Porsche really need to fix some of these bugs and push some updates out to the fleet! And we need a way to force a full reboot, other than locking the car and waiting an unknown number of hours for it to do a deep sleep.
Map produced by Tronity (which I don't recommend - it is full of bugs, some of which are down to Porsche not collecting/sending data properly -- eg the straight line at the top left of the map).
Mechanically, the Taycan performed flawlessly all the time and is an absolute dream on the Autobahn. Its strong acceleration from 130-245+ km/h is enough to cause quite a lot of complaints from the front-seat passenger
. Electric is definitely the way to go: charging infrastructure on European major routes is excellent. We didn't once hit a congestion issue at the chargers. On long stretches in France ALK/Innodrive took some of the strain.We had three software faults, as sadly seems the norm for this car. Porsche's software really is fragile.
First we lost lane keeping (various fault messages displayed) and Innodrive. Rebooting didn't help, and although it looked like a hardware failure it was just another software bug. The disabled functionality came back after the car slept over a lunch break.
At another point the whole PCM froze, not even allowing a 2-finger reboot. We fixed that by parking and turning the car off and on again.
Later we lost traffic data -- right when we were trying to route around the notorious Antwerp ring road -- and this came back an hour later. There is no notification in the car that traffic data is unavailable, just an absence of markings on the map. And for this leg of the journey Porsche also failed to send consistent data to Tronity, again suggesting it was a Porsche server issue. (I had this once before, in that cast lasting for two days, and it was a server failure at the Porsche end.)
And of course there were other minor software quirks, eg reporting that we had reached the destination when at the very start of our journey. We are used to those now.
Some trouble charging at Engie at Eurotunnel France. The third time we have failed to charge there. Three different payment methods were authorised and started charging, stopping a minute later after 0 kW. I called Engie's helpdesk who didn't know what to do. Bizarrely an adjoining stall worked first time. There is a Tesla charger opposite but annoyingly they have not removed the bump stops so unless one specific stall is free, a Taycan can't be charged.
As always for overnight stops in transit, we recommend the Valk hotels when travelling through NL and adjoining areas. They are super comfortable, located right on the motorway, and have excellent charging options from slow (for overnight parking) through to Ionity or Tesla Superchargers.
Overall we had a great trip: the Taycan is a fabulous touring car -- although we do set off with some trepidation each day in case a software bug prevents travelling. I never had that nervousness when driving a Tesla in Europe. Porsche really need to fix some of these bugs and push some updates out to the fleet! And we need a way to force a full reboot, other than locking the car and waiting an unknown number of hours for it to do a deep sleep.
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