wemct
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I am doing another one of my long distance drives from Georgia to Atlanta Connecticut. Today's leg was 400 miles to Raleigh, North Carolina. I noticed that as one of the feature updates, now when you use the Porsche Charging Planner with the factory navigation to select an Electrify America charging station (via the POI > Porsche Charging Service), the EA destination shows the number of available chargers (and it refreshes in real time)
I didn't notice the feature until I was fairly close to my first charger location. I had purposely skipped one of the earlier stops recommended by A Better Route Planner app. Instead I decided to stretch the 1st stop to the Sam's Club at Greenville, South Carolina. When I was about 30 minutes away, I noticed the new feature, but it said 0/7 stations available and was highlighted in red. It caused a bit of panic since I didn't know if that meant that all of them were out of service. In my prior my road trips I have never seen all of the chargers occupied. Plugshare and the EA app didn't shed any more information. When I was about 10 minutes away, the display changed to 2/7 and turned green. I felt much better.
I pulled up to the chargers and sure enough there were other cars there. I found an available 350 kW tower and plugged in without a problem (it peaked above 200kW). It even continued to pull 63kW above 90% SOC. so I let it charge for 29 minutes.
My second stop was at the Walmart in Greensboro, North Carolina. As you can see from the picture, it showed 15/15 chargers available. The first 350kW charger connected, but I was only pulling 39kW at 25% SOC with a preconditioned battery. I decided to try the adjoining 350kW tower. I had to call EA to initiate the charge because the second tower did not appear on the Charging NA app. The EA rep connected me to the tower, and the Taycan pulled 243kW (much better than the 39kW at the adjoining tower). She said she would submit a repair ticket for the slow charger. By the time I left, a Mustang Mach-e was also charging.
I arrived an hour later in Raleigh with 57% SOC (lower than the picture b/c I did some spirited driving during the last 70 miles). I'm staying at the Aloft Raleigh Durham Airport hotel. It has a Tesla Destination Charger and a 32A Clipper Creek charger. Both were available. I'm plugged into the Clipper Creek and charging at a leisurely 6 kW. It will be nice to start with a full battery in the morning for the second leg of the trip.
I didn't notice the feature until I was fairly close to my first charger location. I had purposely skipped one of the earlier stops recommended by A Better Route Planner app. Instead I decided to stretch the 1st stop to the Sam's Club at Greenville, South Carolina. When I was about 30 minutes away, I noticed the new feature, but it said 0/7 stations available and was highlighted in red. It caused a bit of panic since I didn't know if that meant that all of them were out of service. In my prior my road trips I have never seen all of the chargers occupied. Plugshare and the EA app didn't shed any more information. When I was about 10 minutes away, the display changed to 2/7 and turned green. I felt much better.
I pulled up to the chargers and sure enough there were other cars there. I found an available 350 kW tower and plugged in without a problem (it peaked above 200kW). It even continued to pull 63kW above 90% SOC. so I let it charge for 29 minutes.
My second stop was at the Walmart in Greensboro, North Carolina. As you can see from the picture, it showed 15/15 chargers available. The first 350kW charger connected, but I was only pulling 39kW at 25% SOC with a preconditioned battery. I decided to try the adjoining 350kW tower. I had to call EA to initiate the charge because the second tower did not appear on the Charging NA app. The EA rep connected me to the tower, and the Taycan pulled 243kW (much better than the 39kW at the adjoining tower). She said she would submit a repair ticket for the slow charger. By the time I left, a Mustang Mach-e was also charging.
I arrived an hour later in Raleigh with 57% SOC (lower than the picture b/c I did some spirited driving during the last 70 miles). I'm staying at the Aloft Raleigh Durham Airport hotel. It has a Tesla Destination Charger and a 32A Clipper Creek charger. Both were available. I'm plugged into the Clipper Creek and charging at a leisurely 6 kW. It will be nice to start with a full battery in the morning for the second leg of the trip.
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