I thought we could get OTA updates. All updates have to be done by a dealer???Let us know what the response is, since I am curious to know if it applies to all Taycan's, or just a certain few.
This is where it would have been great if Porsche had enabled over the air updates - owners could have done this at home, and not had to have made a trip to a dealership. Hopefully, the auto industry catches up with the one car manufacturer that truly has this capability.
Yeah. We thought that too. Turns out they update our maps OTA. Big, scary, important stuff gets done at the dealership.I thought we could get OTA updates. All updates have to be done by a dealer???
Thanks. Good to know. Where would I be without this forum?Yeah. We thought that too. Turns out they update our maps OTA. Big, scary, important stuff gets done at the dealership.
I thought we could get OTA updates. All updates have to be done by a dealer???
Thanks. Good to know. Where would I be without this forum?
It turns out that OTA updates are REALLY hard to do... correctly. And it’s one piece of software that can’t have bugs. It must be perfect. And Perfect is hard. Very, very hard. Harder than most companies understand. You pretty much have to build (Or re-build) your whole eco-system system from the ground up always considering OTA updates.
I’m so very glad to be out of that business.
Agreed. One addition:Most us would be toast without this forum. Knowledgable members, like Don, know more about the car than 98.5% of the Porsche service managers in the field right now. Most dealerships only have one tech that is certified to work on a Taycan.
It will be an up and down experience for us owners for a while, and this forum will be essential so we can exchange information and keep up with what everyone is hearing. It feels the Taycan is a fun little side project for Porsche currently, and they will dedicate just enough recourses to keep it going. It is not until the Macan goes fully electric when we will see Porsche make the leap towards expanding/improving capabilities on their EV's, and focusing on making 3rd party partners like Electrify America provide a more consistent charging experience. Just my two cents.
Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying.Don: thank you for the insight. So, based on what you are saying the legacy car manufacturers who are starting to dabble in EVs will have a very tough time being able to offer OTA since their business, and their vehicles, is built/engineered around updates being done manually at a dealership?
Tesla, since they weaved in OTA update capability from the start of their business, is able to pull this off because they engineered their cars around this capability?
Is this accurate? And, if so, I guess we will probably not see actual OTA updates, outside of the maps, from Porsche for a while.
Thank you for letting us pick your brain on this stuff.
Given that at least four or five of the modules getting updated are related to Charging and the HV battery, I’m going to assume: YES It’s a hopeful yes. Not one based on any technical insight.I wonder if any of these changes will improve the car's compatibility with fast charging improving the success rate for starting a charging session.
Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying.
BMW has made the leap. Their newest cars can update most, if not all, systems OTA. But it was a long, slow path.
I don’t think Mercedes is there yet.