nwills
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Today I took my first mini road trip in my 4S with the 93kW battery.
Started the day with a timer set to charge to 100% at time of departure which read 290 miles on my guess o meter. The highest I’ve seen since my ownership of 1000 miles.
Started by planning a set of DC fast chargers using a few apps since some will show certain chargers and others won’t.
I made sure I would give myself plenty of error margin between chargers as I anticipated some may not work or be unavailable...good thing I did since that’s exactly what happened. First charger was not working. Second charger was ChargePoint and it had two DC ports both had Ford F-150 pick up trucks parked in the spots! Unbelievable.
Long story short it was a difficult journey and I will spare all the details but it does lead me to a few questions:
The Porsche Connect app offers a way to plan a navigation route but it looks like something that was developed by a 14 year old.
Is there a way to plan a trip using the Porsche PCM navigation where you have a starting point, destination, waypoints and return to staring point? Also adding your own charging points rather than relying on the limited charging points the PCM offers?
From what I understand the Taycan can pre-condition the battery prior to arrival at a charger to optimize the charging time by preparing the battery. In order to do this the PCM needs to know the exact locations of the chargers along your itinerary which therefore limits you to the PCM suggested charge points?
Is this pre-conditioning a real advantage over simply arriving at a charging station and connecting the vehicle to a DC charger?
It would seem that in order to really benefit from the car’s ability to create a “smart” navigation itinerary where it takes into account weather, traffic, elevation and driving style you would need to use the navigation rather than simply mapping out your trip manually and not inputting the full itinerary in the car?
The car offers the charge planner but I don’t really understand how you can really take advantage of this?
Started the day with a timer set to charge to 100% at time of departure which read 290 miles on my guess o meter. The highest I’ve seen since my ownership of 1000 miles.
Started by planning a set of DC fast chargers using a few apps since some will show certain chargers and others won’t.
I made sure I would give myself plenty of error margin between chargers as I anticipated some may not work or be unavailable...good thing I did since that’s exactly what happened. First charger was not working. Second charger was ChargePoint and it had two DC ports both had Ford F-150 pick up trucks parked in the spots! Unbelievable.
Long story short it was a difficult journey and I will spare all the details but it does lead me to a few questions:
The Porsche Connect app offers a way to plan a navigation route but it looks like something that was developed by a 14 year old.
Is there a way to plan a trip using the Porsche PCM navigation where you have a starting point, destination, waypoints and return to staring point? Also adding your own charging points rather than relying on the limited charging points the PCM offers?
From what I understand the Taycan can pre-condition the battery prior to arrival at a charger to optimize the charging time by preparing the battery. In order to do this the PCM needs to know the exact locations of the chargers along your itinerary which therefore limits you to the PCM suggested charge points?
Is this pre-conditioning a real advantage over simply arriving at a charging station and connecting the vehicle to a DC charger?
It would seem that in order to really benefit from the car’s ability to create a “smart” navigation itinerary where it takes into account weather, traffic, elevation and driving style you would need to use the navigation rather than simply mapping out your trip manually and not inputting the full itinerary in the car?
The car offers the charge planner but I don’t really understand how you can really take advantage of this?
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