daveo4EV
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- David
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Now that I've arrived home I've been able to accomplish some charging with my home residential charging system.
I can report the following:
however, you still can not achieve the very simple: start charging at this specified time - Porsche is still "all in" on departure time scheduling - which requires some mental gymnastics to work out if you want to push the charing schedule into a time-of-use off-peak rates schedule.
also I plugged in after returning from my cross-country trip - and was below 25% - and it immediately started charging - even though my depature schedule was over 12 hours away and my allowed time of use for optimizdd charging was midnight-15:00 - reading the manual confirmed there is a 'fixed' charging behavior to always charge to 25% if you plug the vehicle in. I confirmed this was happening, and the charging stopped at 25% - and then waited to finish charging to 80% based on my charging schedule.
this is an unfortunate behavior and there is no way that I can find to disable it - or adjust the 25% threshold - grrr grrr grrr…
this will go "on my list" of things I request Porsche to update/fix - there must be some way to have the vehicle plugged in and yet not charge outside the window for optimized charging.
that's all - I'm sure I'll learn more in the future.
UPDATE: my 2024 Macan Turbo EV appear to only support a maximum charge rate of 9.6 kW - this differs from the onboard charger specification from the Porsche USA website and standard equipment list for the Macan EV - I have an eMail out to my dealer/service-manage asking for clarification - we'll see what they say in response.
I can report the following:
- so far the Macan EV works just fine with the Tesla Universal Wall charger(s) I having installed sharing a 100/80 amp dedicated charging circuit
- last night my Cayenne eHybird and Macan charged no problem!
- the 11 kW EVSE I have yields a 9.3/9.4 kW reading inside teh Macan EV - this would indicate a charging overhead of 1.6 kW - this is much much much high than my 2020 Taycan Turbo on the same charger and same circuit - this will require more investigation - but that is what I'm seeing
- my 2020 Taycan Turbo would report 10.4 kW inside the vehicle when charging from 11 kW EVSE - a more reasonable 0.6 kW of overhead/loss
when charging with 40 amps (9.6 kw) the Macan EV reports 8.3 kW inside the vehicle - still a 1.3 kW "overhead" as reported - again not sure if this is accurate, more investigation is required - I'll try and get to the bottom of the issue.
however, you still can not achieve the very simple: start charging at this specified time - Porsche is still "all in" on departure time scheduling - which requires some mental gymnastics to work out if you want to push the charing schedule into a time-of-use off-peak rates schedule.
also I plugged in after returning from my cross-country trip - and was below 25% - and it immediately started charging - even though my depature schedule was over 12 hours away and my allowed time of use for optimizdd charging was midnight-15:00 - reading the manual confirmed there is a 'fixed' charging behavior to always charge to 25% if you plug the vehicle in. I confirmed this was happening, and the charging stopped at 25% - and then waited to finish charging to 80% based on my charging schedule.
this is an unfortunate behavior and there is no way that I can find to disable it - or adjust the 25% threshold - grrr grrr grrr…
this will go "on my list" of things I request Porsche to update/fix - there must be some way to have the vehicle plugged in and yet not charge outside the window for optimized charging.
that's all - I'm sure I'll learn more in the future.
UPDATE: my 2024 Macan Turbo EV appear to only support a maximum charge rate of 9.6 kW - this differs from the onboard charger specification from the Porsche USA website and standard equipment list for the Macan EV - I have an eMail out to my dealer/service-manage asking for clarification - we'll see what they say in response.
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