elon has had an open offer to any EV car company to use his superchargers for a price, not one has taken him up on the offer and all, excepting nissan use the CCS system. I think it is safe to say that porsche will never adapt their cars to use Elons system, especially in N. america because the units are incompatible.
where there is a will there is a way - there is no will on either parties front - Tesla or Porsche - currently the Tesla Supercharger network in North America has the wrong shape connector, but that could be fixed if there was a business agreement - electricity is electricity - and we already know the SC network “just works” in Europe when Tesla had some SC’s mis-configured.
this is so pedantic.
this was covered before, Tesla’s offer was only a PR stunt and was never serious. His “conditions” were designed so no sane company would ever take them up. We don’t need to circle this again to be honest.
nonetheless if a company was interested in partnering up with tesla the door was open. sure the initial offering was a bit outrageous but if a manufacturer was interested it is pretty certain that a more reasonable agreement could have been reached. however every other EV manufacturer had chosen the de facto CCS system for fast charging. and they are all negotiating deals with suppliers of chargers, most notably EA, I think GM is working with EVGO.
Imagine how many people would jump to Porsche with that amazing network support and been able not to even think about charges planning. VW can pay any money.
If we were both single
David - question from a new owner of a 4S, when using an adapter, is a Tesla destination charger the equivalent to a Level 2 charger when charging a Taycan? Thanks in advance
A Tesla destination charger is a level 2 charger.
not david here, yes a destination charger is an L2 level charger.
Agreed, Tesla started building the supercharger network when they have no money, just an idea. VW group has the money, the richest with Toyota, they should build it, just a remainder, the money the spent with EA was a fine for cheating emission, so they have not excuse.
Porsche/VW should install destination chargers, is a shame we need to use them.
Is not pedantic, when I bought my first Tesla in 2012, S85, included $2000 dollar for life use of superchargers, in fact we paid for it. At that time Chademo was 25-50 kw/h and Tesla knew the industry was playing games with compliance cars that no one want. Tesla back them has sold 12.000 cars and they already builded supercharger with 120Kw/h and everyone else was laughing. They started in the west and east regions, this is call vision like Apple. VW group an every other legacy automakers know that their nice cars will suck once they go for fast charging. Just imagine when we reach 1M cars EV non Tesla, how are we going to charge? The fact they are getting better isn’t enough, something has to be done and for me is all the rich automakers opening their wallets and build reliable superchargers plug and play.
