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Hi, I am looking for your experiences with trip planning and charging stops.
The car can plan a trip directly on the PCM and in the manual it states that it will find charging stations and include these. It will also then precondition the battery for fastest possible charging. Not perhaps needed so much just now in the summer time as the battery seems to get to about 35degrees `Celsius by just driving, but for the winter time.
Ionity’s network here in Europe has now got some useful coverage for me, with France, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, UK, Sweden, Netherlands, Norway well covered where I travel. They have more than 260 stations in use plus 45 or so under construction with a target of 400 by year end I think. I am very pleased to see the positive roll out. Next of course is to make sure they all work as described and are well maintained? The main coverage works well going North to South say from Nice to Stockholm or Oslo. Less good to go from Monaco to Biarritz on the French west coast! There are of course a lot of other chargers as well but not as powerful and rapid for long trips. ABRP works fantastic to plan all of the stops and it finds all of Ionity chargers without any problems.
Now to my issue. When I plan a trip going from Nice to Zurich in Switzerland, the Porsche Charging Planner in the car, does NOT find the Ionity chargers on the way. Two of the stops that are planned are for 50 kW and even a bit off the chosen route?? The charging takes much more time so the travel time is also a lot longer.
I can manually over ride the charging stop and send the Ionity charger coordinates to the car with the connect app, which finds the charger. If I then put that destination into the Navigation as Ionity etc, it seems the car does not recognise this as a high power charger and does not pre condition my battery! I have tried several ways to direct the planner to the charging stations and restarted and replanned, but no luck.
Can I change any settings or start pre conditioning separately. Has anybody found a way to do this? If I remeber correctly @louv mentioned something similar on his trip. What are your experiences and any work around?
I am so happy to see the Ionity roll out that suits my trips, and confused why the Connect app lists and finds the charging stations but the car PCM does not?
The car can plan a trip directly on the PCM and in the manual it states that it will find charging stations and include these. It will also then precondition the battery for fastest possible charging. Not perhaps needed so much just now in the summer time as the battery seems to get to about 35degrees `Celsius by just driving, but for the winter time.
Ionity’s network here in Europe has now got some useful coverage for me, with France, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, UK, Sweden, Netherlands, Norway well covered where I travel. They have more than 260 stations in use plus 45 or so under construction with a target of 400 by year end I think. I am very pleased to see the positive roll out. Next of course is to make sure they all work as described and are well maintained? The main coverage works well going North to South say from Nice to Stockholm or Oslo. Less good to go from Monaco to Biarritz on the French west coast! There are of course a lot of other chargers as well but not as powerful and rapid for long trips. ABRP works fantastic to plan all of the stops and it finds all of Ionity chargers without any problems.
Now to my issue. When I plan a trip going from Nice to Zurich in Switzerland, the Porsche Charging Planner in the car, does NOT find the Ionity chargers on the way. Two of the stops that are planned are for 50 kW and even a bit off the chosen route?? The charging takes much more time so the travel time is also a lot longer.
I can manually over ride the charging stop and send the Ionity charger coordinates to the car with the connect app, which finds the charger. If I then put that destination into the Navigation as Ionity etc, it seems the car does not recognise this as a high power charger and does not pre condition my battery! I have tried several ways to direct the planner to the charging stations and restarted and replanned, but no luck.
Can I change any settings or start pre conditioning separately. Has anybody found a way to do this? If I remeber correctly @louv mentioned something similar on his trip. What are your experiences and any work around?
I am so happy to see the Ionity roll out that suits my trips, and confused why the Connect app lists and finds the charging stations but the car PCM does not?
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