Pre-heating function will drain battery?

[Dragonfly]

Quick question to forum members.

Finally took delivery today of the car. MY23 RWD. During delivery process my SA told me that he would not recommend using the pre-heating function on the Porsche app.

His reasoning was that it puts the car in an auxiliary mode and seriously drains battery. If you leave it on for too long the car will not start…

Is this true? Was planning on using the pre heat function a lot this winter because I live in New England and it would be nice to get into a warm car this winter after work…

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[TaycanCook]

News to me. I suppose you could drain the battery if you use it non stop but I imagine there is a point where it won't let you turn it on. 60 minutes of it on drains about 1% of my hv soc.

 

[Jayyvr890]

Classic SA who knows nothing about these cars feeling compelled to give "advice".

Yes it will use a bit of the battery, less than 1% in my experience. I usually turn it on as I leave my office so mostly ~15min of pre-heat/cool. Once the SOC is less than 20%, this function will be disabled.

 

[DougFrisk]

Pretty sure half an hour or so is no issue.

How Long Can an EV Keep the Cabin Warm in the Cold? We Found Out (caranddriver.com)

 

[jimithing]

Below a certain SoC (I think 25%), the car won't do preheating. I use it every day all winter. Ignore your SA & enjoy the car.

 

[Fish Fingers]

Another thread that just goes to show sales assistants know absolute bollox all about the cars they are selling!

Its almost to the point where I sigh when I see a post with 'my sales assistant said.....' as I know its often going to be nonsense.

It's actually quite worrying, as these people spout bullshit with an air of authority that makes you believe they have absolute knowledge of what they are selling - when many of them know Jack.

You are far better off coming on here.

OP. When you switch the Preheat / cool on it starts a countdown for 60 mins (I have just done it now to show you) as long as you have enough soc (posts above).

After the hour it switches off, or you can end the session on the app, or it stops when you get in the car.

Typically uses 1 to 2% of battery in the full hour (depending on conditions) but generally you can get the job done in far less time.

Ps Make sure to tell your sales assistant this and ask them from misleading other customers with their lack of professionalism and poor performance at their job.

 

[whitex]

Does the Taycan use shore power for preheating when plugged-in? All Teslas do that, so pre-heat while plugged-in at home actually saves battery.

 

[B61]

Another thread that just goes to show sales assistants know absolute bollox all about the cars they are selling!

Porsche should demand that all dealers are reading this forum to learn and get some real,life experiences

 

[TaycanCook]

Does the Taycan use shore power for preheating when plugged-in? All Teslas do that, so pre-heat while plugged-in at home actually saves battery.

Nope

 

[whitex]

Nope

What happened? Was this an explicit decision or did Porsche engineering run out of time while designing the Taycan platform?

 

[whitex]

Quick question to forum members.

Finally took delivery today of the car. MY23 RWD. During delivery process my SA told me that he would not recommend using the pre-heating function on the Porsche app.

His reasoning was that it puts the car in an auxiliary mode and seriously drains battery. If you leave it on for too long the car will not start…

Is this true? Was planning on using the pre heat function a lot this winter because I live in New England and it would be nice to get into a warm car this winter after work…

There is an amazing amount of misinformation spread by SA and even Porsche corporate. I was in a Taycan owner clinic last month where a guy from corporate presented a slide deck. When he got to charging slides, explaining Level 1,2, and 3 charging, he decided to add his own outdated wisdom by saying “if you charge at Level 1 you will kill your 12V battery”. This might have been true with the very first Taycans due to bad software, but it’s been fixed long ago.

Sales and marketing spreading misinformation is not new, I’ve heard many salespeople make stuff up about the products they sell. Problem is not unique to Porsche.

 

[W1NGE]

Quick question to forum members.

Finally took delivery today of the car. MY23 RWD. During delivery process my SA told me that he would not recommend using the pre-heating function on the Porsche app.

His reasoning was that it puts the car in an auxiliary mode and seriously drains battery. If you leave it on for too long the car will not start…

Is this true? Was planning on using the pre heat function a lot this winter because I live in New England and it would be nice to get into a warm car this winter after work…

Utter nonsense.

Max duration is 60 mins for each preheat/cool session.

 

[YLA G]

Nope

Tesla uses the wall power for pre heating so it evens preserves the battery :/

 

[Scandinavian]

Nope

it uses “shore power” to preheat the car if plugged in and a timer set for charging and preheating before you leave. So you can have a warm car when leaving in the morning and from work if power is available and timer set

 

[David Bennett]

it uses “shore power” to preheat the car if plugged in and a timer set for charging and preheating before you leave. So you can have a warm car when leaving in the morning and from work if power is available and timer set

I think this is correct. When mine is plugged, has finished charging and I activate pre heating, the charging light goes green again which must indicate it is drawing power for the heating (or keeping the battery at the target level)

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