Porsche Taycan Charging: Everything You Need To Know

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In my very limited experience with my new 2021 taycan 4s the charging with Electrify America has not been very good.
in four visits to an EA charger I have only been able to initiate a charging session once without assistance from the EA help line.
one time we could not get the car to charge at 8 different units and I was lucky to find a greenlots unit close by where I was able to charge the car albeit slowly on a 50kw unit.
the plug and charge system has not worked for me and the cumbersome apps interface is clunky. as an after thought I believe it was a misconfiguration on my porsche connect app that caused the charging failure. nonetheless the system is not close to being as reliable as the tesla superchargers are. in about 7 years of owning teslas I never had a fail to charge incident.
Btw I enjoyed your video that covered the home charger porsche delivers with the car.
 
kort said:
In my very limited experience with my new 2021 taycan 4s the charging with Electrify America has not been very good.
in four visits to an EA charger I have only been able to initiate a charging session once without assistance from the EA help line.
one time we could not get the car to charge at 8 different units and I was lucky to find a greenlots unit close by where I was able to charge the car albeit slowly on a 50kw unit.
the plug and charge system has not worked for me and the cumbersome apps interface is clunky. as an after thought I believe it was a misconfiguration on my porsche connect app that caused the charging failure. nonetheless the system is not close to being as reliable as the tesla superchargers are. in about 7 years of owning teslas I never had a fail to charge incident.
Btw I enjoyed your video that covered the home charger porsche delivers with the car.
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Thank you. Yes, Electrify America still has some bugs to iron out, as there is an uneven user experience based on which station you visit. The stations that I typically use in New Jersey are pretty reliable now, and I only rarely have an issue. However, I do hear similar reports as yours so I know they still have a way to go to improve the user experience. Hang in there, it will get better.
 
Tom Moloughney said:
Hello everyone. We just posted an in-depth Taycan charging video. It's loooong - and has a lot of basic charging points explained so the more experienced EV drivers may want to skip ahead which is why we included a bunch of timestamps to specific topics. We hope you find it useful.

https://insideevs.com/news/486327/how-to-charge-porsche-taycan-review/
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Hi
Thank you for the depth review it's very useful for me
But I can't get two things:
1. Should I order 19.2 kW On-Board AC Charger?
2. Do I need Mobile Charger Connect or the regular Mobile Charger is enough or better to consider buying a third party charger instead?
 
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I pulled up to this EA charging station a few weeks ago in Las Vegas, there was a Porsche there and another one pulled up as I was initiating my charging session. The two owners were talking about charging, I wasn’t paying close attention to their conversation but they didn’t seem to be complaining about it. By the time I got back with my takeout lunch, one had left and another was still charging.

looking at PlugShare checkins at that location , seems Taycans are able to charge at 100+ kW half the time. With a lot of owners oblivious to internal charge management constraints, that doesn’t seem like people are having consistently a hard time.
 
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