thenaimis
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Some of you probably know that last week Texas (and indeed a good chunk of the USA) was subjected to a major winter storm. I think it hit Texas particularly hard because set up the electrical grid here to be free from US federal regulations.
Well, I was one of those millions of people without power for an extended period. From 2am Monday through around 8pm Thursday (a total of around 113 hours), I was without power except on one occasion where the city gave us power for around 40 minutes. The inside temperature got down to the low 40s (F, or around 4C) and the outside was in the low 20s (-6C), and my water pipes froze up as well. The pipes took me two days to unfreeze successfully the first time. Only a few minutes to unfreeze the second time.
The Taycan (for those of you wondering when I'd get around to being on topic) helped provide electricity to charge my phone, and also the camera battery I used to take the photo in the location thread. A quick summary of points now that I've already rambled a bit:
Well, I was one of those millions of people without power for an extended period. From 2am Monday through around 8pm Thursday (a total of around 113 hours), I was without power except on one occasion where the city gave us power for around 40 minutes. The inside temperature got down to the low 40s (F, or around 4C) and the outside was in the low 20s (-6C), and my water pipes froze up as well. The pipes took me two days to unfreeze successfully the first time. Only a few minutes to unfreeze the second time.
The Taycan (for those of you wondering when I'd get around to being on topic) helped provide electricity to charge my phone, and also the camera battery I used to take the photo in the location thread. A quick summary of points now that I've already rambled a bit:
- The SoC at the start of all this was around 65%. It got down around 55% by the end of the week, after charging my phone multiple times.
- The majority of the drop in the car battery charge wasn't due to charging the phone, it was mostly due to having the heat on. If I had the cabin heat on, I could watch the SoC tick down. But if I had the radio on, seat heater on mid and the phone charging via the 12V supply (I don't have a C-to-C cable), the impact on the car battery charge was negligible
- I did on occasion get prompted to switch users or log in as guest, but just switching to my usual user account allowed me to proceed to use the car as normal
- I even fired up the connect app at one point for no particular reason other than to see if it still worked, and it did.
- The 12V rated battery stayed at a pretty consistent 13.5V the entire week, at least for all the time that I was in the car
- phone charging sessions varied in length from 30 minutes to 2 hours, depending on how bored I got and how much I wanted to charge the phone.
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