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Looking forward to some meet pics from Trondheim!
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Looking forward to some meet pics from Trondheim!
That was my initial though as well, except that in my case i havent taken delivery of my Taycan yet, and my trusted old A7 isn't quite the same to look at, especially when parked next to some shiny Taycans! :D
 

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Wow, if you need help in belgium, let me know. looking forward to see more of your trip.
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Day 1: Dublin (Ireland) -> Cherbourg (France)

In the afternoon, we join the now familiar W.B. Yeats cruise ferry in Dublin Port for the overnight 18-hour crossing to Cherbourg in France. Travelling via what is known in Ireland as "the land bridge" – via the UK and across the Chunnel – would probably be our preferred route but it is still much easier to remain within the EU/EEA area from the perspective of COVID-19 travel rules.

As always, we plug in to the 3kW AC charger on the car deck – ensuring we'll exit the ferry with a full battery. The previous times we've used the charger on the ferry it was free – but now Irish Ferries are adding €15 onto the cost of the ticket if you book it.

A reasonable cost considering the convenience and it comes with the added bonus that they load EVs first onto the ship.

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The cabin's on-board are very modern and comfortable.

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We leave Dublin on time for the 18 hour crossing to France – expecting to arrive into Cherbourg at 11.30 tomorrow.

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Passing Poolbeg Lighthouse as we pull out of Dublin Port and into the Irish Sea.

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This being off-peak for Ireland, the ship is very quiet and probably only running to carry cargo.

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The days charging stats:

LocationStart SOC %End SOC %kWh addedCostDurationAmbient TempBattery TempCharger TypeNetwork
W.B. Yeats Car Ferry77%100%19.3€15.006 hours 30 mins917Type 2Irish Ferries
Like others, I really enjoy hearing about your road trips - a great inspiration for our own planning. Hope this one goes well - really looking forward to hearing all about it.
 


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One year of our Porsche Taycan ?

Today our Porsche Taycan 4S is exactly one year old. Here it was on February 11, 2021 that we collected the car.

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And now 27,500 km later we're about to disembark in Cherbourg at the start of an epic road-trip.
 
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Porsche Charging Service

What a day for the auto-renewal to rollover. Hope there are no disruptions to service as we'll be leaning heavily on it today and for the next few weeks.

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"Please note that the time required to activate your services can be affected by external factors (e.g. areas with limited connectivity such as underground car parks)."

Ha! How about parked on a ship in international waters?
 

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Day 1: Dublin (Ireland) -> Cherbourg (France)

In the afternoon, we join the now familiar W.B. Yeats cruise ferry in Dublin Port for the overnight 18-hour crossing to Cherbourg in France. Travelling via what is known in Ireland as "the land bridge" – via the UK and across the Chunnel – would probably be our preferred route but it is still much easier to remain within the EU/EEA area from the perspective of COVID-19 travel rules.

As always, we plug in to the 3kW AC charger on the car deck – ensuring we'll exit the ferry with a full battery. The previous times we've used the charger on the ferry it was free – but now Irish Ferries are adding €15 onto the cost of the ticket if you book it.

A reasonable cost considering the convenience and it comes with the added bonus that they load EVs first onto the ship.

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The cabin's on-board are very modern and comfortable.

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We leave Dublin on time for the 18 hour crossing to France – expecting to arrive into Cherbourg at 11.30 tomorrow.

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Passing Poolbeg Lighthouse as we pull out of Dublin Port and into the Irish Sea.

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This being off-peak for Ireland, the ship is very quiet and probably only running to carry cargo.

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The days charging stats:

LocationStart SOC %End SOC %kWh addedCostDurationAmbient TempBattery TempCharger TypeNetwork
W.B. Yeats Car Ferry77%100%19.3€15.006 hours 30 mins917Type 2Irish Ferries
This is so cool!! Have fun on the trip. I look forward to your next installment. By the way, I too have the Leica Q2, it is my forever camera. Great minds think alike!
 


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Day 2: Cherbourg (France) -> Köln (Germany)

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After a mostly smooth crossing we pull into Cherbourg, France on time at 11:30 and make our way down to the vehicle deck to our fully charged car – switching our headlights over to the "other" side of the road in the PCM.

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After clearing border control, we drive down the Cotentin Peninsula before heading east for our overnight stop at Köln nearly 850 km away.

Today is all about trying to make as much distance as quick as possible. One thing that helps with this is the PCM Navigation very accurately predicts what the battery state-of-charge (SOC) will be at all the stops. While charging the PCM will let you know when you can continue your journey and due to its accuracy – it can be trusted.

This allows you to optimise your charging strategy for quickest progress – something that is very important any day you have planned three or more high-speed charging sessions.

It was a beautiful dry and sunny day – with puffy clouds but no rain – perfect road-trip conditions.

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Our first stop at IONITY Bolleville went well without any issues, with the charger starting quickly on tapping our Porsche Charging Service card on the RFID reader on the charging pedestal.

I was a little concerned – because the annual subscription to the service was ticking over to its second year today – a consequence of the car's one year birthday – but all went well.

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We left the charger when the car said it was okay to continue our trip. At our next stop – Baie de Somme – we grabbed some pizza slices – sitting outside in the winter sun. IONITY stops charge our car faster than we're ready to get going again!

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Shortly afterwards, the PCM routed us through a few sleepy towns, rather than the more direct motorway – perhaps it was helping us avoid some closures/traffic.

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We had a thankfully uneventful journey, stopping at three more charging stops as we made our way across Northern France, into Belgium and finally onto Germany as darkness fell.

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The only complaint we'd raise is that it can be difficult to locate the bank of IONITY chargers once darkness falls. The service stops are a maze of one-way roads and there was no signage to the chargers in either Belgium or Germany.

With the level of investment that IONITY make in this infrastructure, you'd think they'd be a little easier to locate!

We eventually pull into the Radisson Blu, Köln – our hotel for the night – park in the hotels garage and plug in for our destination charge.

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We're closer to Norway which was the goal of today's drive.

The days charging stats:

LocationStart SOC %End SOC %kWh addedCostDurationAmbient TempBattery TempCharger TypeNetwork
IONITY Bolleville East23%82%49.3€16.270h 23m8.531DC 350kWIONITY
IONITY Baie de Somme32%94%51.37€16.950h 32m8.537DC 350kWIONITY
IONITY Le Roeulx16%84%57.86€19.090h 23m4.542DC 350kWIONITY
IONITY Aachener Land South25%81%47.8€15.770h 26m-0.533DC 350kWIONITY
Radisson Blu Koln60%100%33.5€0.004h 45m230AC 7kWDestination Charger

Today we did 882 km over 10:53 hours, with an average speed of 82 km/h, consuming 25.1 kWh/100km.
 
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How do we do our charger planning?

Before leaving Dublin, we've a high-level plan for each day's leg and charging stops in a shared Apple Note.

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We use A Better Route Planner (a paid account to support the company) to help find the best chargers. Every days route is saved as a plan in the service – to aid tweaking – when on the way.

We send each days route & waypoints to the car using the Porsche Connect app – and I guess the My Porsche app in the future when/if its bugs get out of the way.

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For each recommended charger, we use PlugShare or ChargeMap to investigate charger reliability and usage reports avoiding any that have a low score or multiple recent reported charging fails.

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This greatly helps increase our chances of using reliable charges and we return the favour by reporting our experiences back to those services.

When booking accommodation – as much as possible on hotels.com as we chase loyalty points there – we'll lean towards properties that claim to have destination charging available.

However, we never rely on getting a successful charge – thats always a bonus. Therefore, as part of our route planning – we always determine what is the minimum charge we should arrive at each nights accommodation that can get us to the next day's first charger.

If we get an overnight destination charge – then that often makes the next day's first charger either redundant or shorter duration – and if we don't get it, it's not an issue, nor does it cause any planning dramas or time wasting the next day.

This approach – which has been refined over our past three road-trips in our Taycan – generally leaves us with a smooth overall charging experience. Something which has been commented upon on many of our trips.

Generally, we find it takes us around 45 minutes to carefully plan for each day we have on a road-trip.

However, on this journey, we're going to be a little more remote than usual – it will be interesting to see if it holds up!
 
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Great post!

for trip planning: you put your destination in ABRP, tweak it and then you can make a route in the Porsche app on your laptop/phone and send it to the car?

so you have the route planned by ABRP in the the Porsche navigation and not ABRP in CarPlay?

Does the cat recognizes your stops as fast chargers? Or do you still have to enter them as separate stops to have pre heating for fast charging.


Have a safe and fun trip. And a bit of high speed driving in Germany today
 
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Great post!

for trip planning: you put your destination in ABRP, tweak it and then you can make a route in the Porsche app on your laptop/phone and send it to the car?

so you have the route planned by ABRP in the the Porsche navigation and not ABRP in CarPlay?

Does the cat recognizes your stops as fast chargers? Or do you still have to enter them as separate stops to have pre heating for fast charging.
Good questions. The former, we plan on ABRP then type the route into the Porsche Connect app on phone and send to car's navigation. I've never used carplay navigation – for the reasons you outlined – preparing battery for efficient charging.

So after sending the route to the car, I'll use the "Route Overview" in the PCM navigation screen. This will outline all the charging stops the car thinks its going to use – with estimated arrival, departure and length of time at each stop.

90% of the time the PCM gets it right and identifies the waypoints sent to it as charging stops – however, in the 10% of cases it doesn't, I'll delete the waypoint from the route and add it manually selecting the "fuel" filter option in the PCM. As the waypoint is already in the "recent's list" – I generally won't have to type it in manually again and then the navigation route will identify it as a charging stop.

I would love if Porsche would refine this process just a little bit – would be amazing – but alas, we know that won't happen anytime soon. That said, it is mostly good enough.
 
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By the way in Norway you can use some Tesla Superchargers that are accessible to non Tesla cars with the Tesla App;)

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Thanks @Eknut – I did look into this, but unfortunately its not available to everyone yet. From the Tesla FAQ:
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No Irish Taycan's allowed yet!

That said, the area where the pilot sites are open are well covered with IONITY so I didn't try too hard to open an appropriate account. I'd be more motivated if there were pilot sites in more Northern Norway – where high-speed charging is rarer.

I'd still have liked to experience it – I'm sure it will open up to all in a year or so.
 

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Hopefully the weather clears up before you arrive here in Norway. Currently somewhat atrocious here in the west. Certainly no shortage of snow :) Before crossing any of the mountain passes it's a good idea to check the current conditions via the highway authority website. There is also a nice map view.
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