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I think that there are two somewhat independent things going on in cold weather. First, the car consumes more to heat the cabin and presumably to manage the battery. Second (and I am, less sure about this) the battery looses effective capacity in the cold. The battery likely loses efficiency in...

Is there any study that shows to is more efficient to spend energy (from that finite reserve of the cold battery) to warm up the battery before drawing a higher current to move the car (which would warm it up somewhat)? If the wind chill prevents the battery from warming up while driving (if one...

Your friend took it out for a joy ride!

Hi, yeah, except that something has to be awake and talking in the first place in the car to receive any message from the server (which is on all the time). I guess it has a part always on (until deep sleep) in the same way that you can tell your computer to wake from sleep for network...

Is the last suggestion "Avoid using the My Porsche app...." from the user manual, or is this your personal suggestion? In general, the car talks to a server, not directly to the My Porsche App, so the information you get is the last cached version from the last time the car spoke to the mother...

I don't think the phone app speaks directly to the car, but to a server which asynchronously talks to the car using whatever frequency it normally does. It is possible talking to the server causes the server to ping the car, but likely not.

Is there a way to do a reset of the system short of disconnecting the battery? Not sure if I'd go this far, but disconnecting the battery and reconnecting it (or doing a simpler reset), then leaving the car for a few days might reveal something?

On many EVs, the issue of phantom drain is caused by the computers on the car not shutting down properly, so it is always running, draining the 12V and that causes the car to tap into the HV battery to keep the 12V charged. I am still lurker here (decided to keep my Jag I-pace a little longer...

Be careful not to take a fault condition and project that as normal operation (not sure what idling is on an EV as when the car is not moving, nothing is idling as the electronics are doing the same thing when powered whether the car is moving or not). Many of us EV owners have had issues with...

Thats not the sort of thing a manufacturer would do as a one-off for a specific customer. Most (I assume) EVs maintain the 12V battery from the HV battery, even when off. It would be strange that the Macan would only do that "a couple of times" and give up.

May I ask why so many stops? Certainly you can do more than 180km between charges?

Listen to a Toyota (e.g. Prius Hybrid) next time. Electronic metal screeching. Who thought that would be an ok sound?

That still seems weird. It is perfectly reasonable and legitimate to pull into a hotel at 8pm to check in for the night and plug in for 12 hours to recharge overnight and leave first thing in the morning. In that scenario, it should be perfectly reasonable to pay for the electricity delivered in...

Right, so the consensus seems to be that paying a blocking fee after completing charging is fair (to most people) and paying a blocking fee while charging is unfair. If Porsche is indeed charging a blocking fee while charging, it seems to go against the wording of the contract. Certainly paying...

Funny to see responses like the fee is unfair or a wish to throttle charging to avoid the idle fees and no one mentioning maybe actually unplugging the car within 4 hours of completing the charge (and freeing up a limited resource to another fellow EV traveller)? Sorry to sound harsh, but this...

Just to play devil's advocate. You left your car parked at a charge port, NOT charging for ~20 hours?

They were going to but likely accidentally fired the person whose job it would have been to actually kill it.

My Jag I-Pace is the same. Seems everything outside the seals is considered outside and in the open.

You will likely also need to make changes to conform to regulations (no matrix head lights, for example). A buddy bought an Audi in the US and had to make some changes for Transport Canada compliance. May not be big, but one more annoyance to consider.

You mean USA is a big market. No tariffs for Canada and Mexico (also in NA).