Quick Question: if charging station added manually to a route in PCP does the battery get preconditioned?

[dbsb3233]

I Did the same test 2 weeks ago and it took like 20-25 minutes to heat it up almost 8-10 degrees Celsius and during outside temps of around 7 degrees Celsius.
Not sure if it’s a Turbo thingy or not ( I would not assume because for charging purposes also the regular Macan needs to heat up the battery pack).

That's about what I would expect. Yours seemed to work. Seems like mine isn't working as it should have gone up at least 7F-10F in half that time. Unless maybe preconditioning doesn't happen if the battery is already above 50F or something?

Be nice if there were a better way to do this. I don't even like using the built-in nav (prefer Android Auto), let alone having to pick some random destination beyond my next station just to trick it into preconditioning. Only reason I use it occasionally on road trips is to see what the car thinks the SOC% will be at on arrival. AA has that capability too but only if it the car has newer software. The Macan apparently doesn't have it yet. It's been out for 2 years now but some manufacturers still haven't updated their software. Our Mach-E had it. It was nice. Disappointing that a new EV model like this didn't already come with it.

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[ron_b]

@dbsb3233 You do not need to set a destination beyond the Charger if you do not wish to. You will need to go into the intelligent range manager settings by pressing the gear icon in the Porsche navigation screen and set the minimum charge at destination to a high value like 80% or such then it should decide to charge at the destination Charger that you picked and do the necessary battery preconditioning.

 

[dbsb3233]

@dbsb3233 You do not need to set a destination beyond the Charger if you do not wish to. You will need to go into the intelligent range manager settings by pressing the gear icon in the Porsche navigation screen and set the minimum charge at destination to a high value like 80% or such then it should decide to charge at the destination Charger that you picked and do the necessary battery preconditioning.

And then we can nav directly to the DCFC station as the destination? Cool. I'll have to try that.

Thanks!

 

[Petzi]

That's about what I would expect. Yours seemed to work. Seems like mine isn't working as it should have gone up at least 7F-10F in half that time. Unless maybe preconditioning doesn't happen if the battery is already above 50F or something?

Be nice if there were a better way to do this. I don't even like using the built-in nav (prefer Android Auto), let alone having to pick some random destination beyond my next station just to trick it into preconditioning. Only reason I use it occasionally on road trips is to see what the car thinks the SOC% will be at on arrival. AA has that capability too but only if it the car has newer software. The Macan apparently doesn't have it yet. It's been out for 2 years now but some manufacturers still haven't updated their software. Our Mach-E had it. It was nice. Disappointing that a new EV model like this didn't already come with it.

you do not have to use the “built in” navigation. (which is google) but you should not complain about pre charging. there is not one electric car on the market that can use third party apps for charge planning.

porsche charging planner is one of the best. it takes weather, topography, traffic and your driving into consideration.

ps. you can still run a second navi like waze on the main screen..

 

[ron_b]

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ps. you can still run a second navi like waze on the main screen..

@Petzi , yes, I certainly agree that you can open another Navigation app like Waze to check for things on the road that might cause you a slow down . However, I know with the Taycan if you attempt to start routing with another app, it would cancel the routing with the in-car Navigation. I assumed that may still be true with the Macan especially since it’s dash cluster and HUD can display information from the third-party Navigation so I would expect it to only want one kind of navigation routing to be active at any one time. Do you see this to be the case?

 

[Petzi]

@Petzi , yes, I certainly agree that you can open another Navigation app like Waze to check for things on the road that might cause you a slow down . However, I know with the Taycan if you attempt to start routing with another app, it would cancel the routing with the in-car Navigation. I assumed that may still be true with the Macan especially since it’s dash cluster and HUD can display information from the third-party Navigation so I would expect it to only want one kind of navigation routing to be active at any one time. Do you see this to be the case?

like i said: only one route planning. but second navi without route but with sound on main screen. you need porsche's intelligent route planning on longer trips.

 

[dbsb3233]

@Petzi , yes, I certainly agree that you can open another Navigation app like Waze to check for things on the road that might cause you a slow down . However, I know with the Taycan if you attempt to start routing with another app, it would cancel the routing with the in-car Navigation. I assumed that may still be true with the Macan especially since it’s dash cluster and HUD can display information from the third-party Navigation so I would expect it to only want one kind of navigation routing to be active at any one time. Do you see this to be the case?

It does. Launching another nav will cancel the other. I've done that with AA.

 

[Yves]

Yes when starting second route planner it cancels the PCM one and vice versa. So yeah to have a second opinion you can use third party as long as you do not start it.
On the pre heating thing, it takes a long time, depending on how cold it is at 5C it takes initially 10 to 15 minutes per 1C but ones it gets going, it gets faster, it takes a while before the heat propagates …
So I already mentioned this, especially if you know your first stop will be sooner then optimal time to pre heat when it really is cold. I fast charge the night before to 70% and then slow charge to 100% during the night to keep the heat … it will keep the battery at 20C or more and you do not loose any energy and time on heating up the battery, works perfectly.
Now on my return trip I could not do this, but battery was 12 to 13C so not extreme cold and we had 1h30 minutes mountain driving and PCM nav active so the battery was optimal at first stop …
But like now my battery is like 1 to 3C I would definitely make sure the battery is at least in the 12 to 15C range before starting a long trip.

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