Porsche UK Ionity Charge Costs

[Stewartt997]

My first year contract for Porsche Charging is due to expire soon. I'm currently charged £0.30 / kW using Ionity network. Has anyone renewed recently and can tell me what the current rate is? Just wondering if it's altered with changes in energy prices. Thanks in advance.

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[Scandinavian]

My first year contract for Porsche Charging is due to expire soon. I'm currently charged £0.30 / kW using Ionity network. Has anyone renewed recently and can tell me what the current rate is? Just wondering if it's altered with changes in energy prices. Thanks in advance.

Check the information in MyPorsche app under My Account/ charging services. The countries and prices are listed there

 

[anonymouse]

You might not need to renew. Mine appeared to be expiring, then automatically renewed without asking for payment. I think that during some periods Taycans were offered three years of free subscription, and at least in my case this seems to be set up as three separate years. Or so I am surmising; the dealer has no idea.

And in answer to your question yes it is still 30p for Ionity. Attached is my calculator for effective UK price on different types of charger. It takes rough average throughput of the charger (based on adding 50 kWh during the session) and converts that into p/kWh. The chart shows the bizarre side-effect of Porsche's pricing: the crappier the charger, the more you pay!

 

[MrB]

You might not need to renew. Mine appeared to be expiring, then automatically renewed without asking for payment. I think that during some periods Taycans were offered three years of free subscription, and at least in my case this seems to be set up as three separate years. Or so I am surmising; the dealer has no idea.

And in answer to your question yes it is still 30p for Ionity. Attached is my calculator for effective UK price on different types of charger. It takes rough average throughput of the charger (based on adding 50 kWh during the session) and converts that into p/kWh. The chart shows the bizarre side-effect of Porsche's pricing: the crappier the charger, the more you pay!

That spreadsheet says it all and is exactly why we have just done the south of France and back on solely IONITY chargers. Worked an absolute charm and left more budget for vin de soif and other treats!

 

[Porsche-Guru]

My first year contract for Porsche Charging is due to expire soon. I'm currently charged £0.30 / kW using Ionity network. Has anyone renewed recently and can tell me what the current rate is? Just wondering if it's altered with changes in energy prices. Thanks in advance.

I believe that Porsche Charging Service is complimentary for 3 years on a new car….

Someone in UK correct this, if this is a wrong assumption.

 

[anonymouse]

I believe that Porsche Charging Service is complimentary for 3 years on a new car….

Someone in UK correct this, if this is a wrong assumption.

See post 3 above

 

[Porsche-Guru]

You might not need to renew. Mine appeared to be expiring, then automatically renewed without asking for payment. I think that during some periods Taycans were offered three years of free subscription, and at least in my case this seems to be set up as three separate years. Or so I am surmising; the dealer has no idea.

And in answer to your question yes it is still 30p for Ionity. Attached is my calculator for effective UK price on different types of charger. It takes rough average throughput of the charger (based on adding 50 kWh during the session) and converts that into p/kWh. The chart shows the bizarre side-effect of Porsche's pricing: the crappier the charger, the more you pay!

Nice work !

Mind sharing your excels sheet with the formulae...will save me putting in the calculations….

 

[anonymouse]

Nice work ! Mind sharing your excels sheet with the formulae...will save me putting in the calculations….

Sure. Attached. Feel free to fix any mistakes I have made

In cleaning it up, I added some calculations to see whether it's worth renewing the card at £179/year. The answer is, generally, "not really". Very Porsche . And "it depends".

Bottom line: for what I would consider to be a reasonable mix of where you charge, you need to be using public chargers for at least 613 kWh/year before you break even on paying for the Porsche card.

Although the convenience might be worth it. And more so if Ionity get their capacity into balance or start managing out the worst customer behaviours that lead to queuing and bottlenecks.

 

[Scandinavian]

Bottom line: for what I would consider to be a reasonable mix of where you charge, you need to be using public chargers for at least 613 kWh/year before you break even on paying for the Porsche card.

Interesting spreadsheet. But why have you two different average charge rates on a 350 kW Ionity and non-Ionity charger? The car is what determines the rate so if the charger truly is capable of 350 kW it must be the same.

As you say in your post it all depends if it is good value or not. If you always charge at home and hardly do any long road trips, you may just skip the subscription. But if you use the car for travel around Europe it will soon pay off. 600 kWh is about 1800 miles driving.

For me it will pay off after one single road trip to visit the UK, about 1850 miles.

 

[anonymouse]

But why have you two different average charge rates on a 350 kW Ionity and non-Ionity charger? The car is what determines the rate

The speeds are subjective, I agree. Just a guess on the average rate through a full session. I pushed down the non-Ionity rate a bit because at least in the UK, we have some chargers that claim to be 350 but don't deliver anything like that - eg they are shared between two cars or they are just underpowered. (I guess Ionity would struggle to average 200kW too, but as it has no time charge there is no impact of tweaking that number on the sheet.)

If anyone would like to contribute more scientific numbers feel free.

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