Fish Fingers
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- First Name
- Ian
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- Taycan RWD
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You can only say as you see.
And you have just stated the facts.
I think it wouid have been more remiss, if you had experienced the issues and didn't post about it.
BTW... Have you got your car back yet?
I wouldn't be concerned that your experiences are causing undue worry to others tigerbalm.I am starting to be a little concerned that my experiences – which I have documented as accurately as possible – with no exaggerations – is causing undue worry to potential or existing owners.
And I understand why – nobody wants to spec in an option that makes the car unreliable.
I mostly charge on 1-phase AC – though I reduce the power to 25A at home – the charger for me remains unreliable. And its worth remembering that the last time it failed it was in the middle of a 3-phase 22kW charging cycle. However, the previous day I charged for a few hours on a 1-phase 7kW public charger at a zoo carpark.
I refuse not to charge my car when it needs to – I am not trying to provoke the failures – I just have a view that an EV should not hate electricity!
Either way – I have every confidence that Porsche will get a handle on this and if you do end up with issues then it will be subject to a recall – but the specifics of this are still unclear. For sure, Porsche are not yet in that position.
If I was reading my story – I would put it down to a combination of me mostly 1-phase charging away from home in chargers I don't control.
I optioned the 22kW charger – and I would do it again if a fix comes along – due to the 1000's of public 22kW chargers in towns across Ireland and the still relatively low penetration of fast DC chargers. When our fast DC charging network is rolled out here – then the 22kW charger will diminish in importance for me.
There is only 1 Porsche Centre here in Republic of Ireland – a small island country – so that does help get a handle on the extent of the issue here.
I can share these verbal stats:
There are roughly 110 Taycan's sold in Ireland so far. Of these 12 have specced the 22kW charger. Of those 10 have had it replaced once. I've had it replaced 3 times – which is by far the outlier – but there is a widespread problem with the units based on those numbers.
3-phase residential charging is relatively unheard of here in Ireland – so most people buying the charger will be using it on 1-phase at home and bought it – like me – for emergency public charging in the west of our country which still has sparse DC charging options.
This option remains one that Irish buyers are interested in and enquire about.
I have a new order in the works (https://www.taycanforum.com/forum/threads/taycan-4s-taycan-turbo-s.10428/) and I have left the 22kW charger off the build – for obvious reasons. But the new car won't be manufactured until Q4 of this year – and I and my Porsche Centre are keeping a close eye out for news of a more reliable unit – and will add it to the build if it arrives before production starts.
You can only say as you see.
And you have just stated the facts.
I think it wouid have been more remiss, if you had experienced the issues and didn't post about it.
BTW... Have you got your car back yet?
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