violuma
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I'm not sure how much of our weather-related struggles have made the national news, but I got to experience my first extended power outage since joining the Taycan world over the last several days. Since we had been visiting friends over in Berkeley on Sunday night, I came back with ~25% charge to a dark home and uncertain prospects for power restoration. Stopped by the dealer, only to learn the deep dark secret that those fancy DC chargers they have don't actually work, and all they could offer me was L2. Since everybody and their cousin was out of power, the EA chargers near me were slammed with lines many cars deep.
My phone battery also decided to stop holding charge a week ago, so I'd been waiting on a replacement. Little did I know that an essential part of the "plug-and-charge" feature is having a phone that you can push a button on to initiate it. I thought I literally just had to plug in and charge. HA HA HA.
After waiting around long enough into the night that I could get the phone battery to last for 20 minutes, long enough make one more run at the closest EA charger, keep the car running to keep feeding the phone, wait for a charger to open up, I was able to initiate my first DCFC session.
The story ends pretty well, because that charger threw out >140kw/H per whatever unit of time they use initially, so I could stand there literally seeing 1% of SoC added every few seconds. By the time I got to ~60% or so, the speed had dropped to half, but I still got from 15% to 85% in exactly 30 minutes.
Which was enough to get me down to Willow Glen and back to have the new phone battery swapped in yesterday, before the power came back around midnight last night. We're going to get blacked out again tomorrow, but at least I feel better equipped to charge outside the home if necessary.
So, as the thread title says, I strongly recommend all owners who are new to EV ownership practice their public charging during a time of little stress, if possible. Make sure you have a phone, make sure it has a usable battery, open the My Porsche app, select the exact charger number you are at, and press that "start charging" button right after you plug the cable into the car.
My phone battery also decided to stop holding charge a week ago, so I'd been waiting on a replacement. Little did I know that an essential part of the "plug-and-charge" feature is having a phone that you can push a button on to initiate it. I thought I literally just had to plug in and charge. HA HA HA.
After waiting around long enough into the night that I could get the phone battery to last for 20 minutes, long enough make one more run at the closest EA charger, keep the car running to keep feeding the phone, wait for a charger to open up, I was able to initiate my first DCFC session.
The story ends pretty well, because that charger threw out >140kw/H per whatever unit of time they use initially, so I could stand there literally seeing 1% of SoC added every few seconds. By the time I got to ~60% or so, the speed had dropped to half, but I still got from 15% to 85% in exactly 30 minutes.
Which was enough to get me down to Willow Glen and back to have the new phone battery swapped in yesterday, before the power came back around midnight last night. We're going to get blacked out again tomorrow, but at least I feel better equipped to charge outside the home if necessary.
So, as the thread title says, I strongly recommend all owners who are new to EV ownership practice their public charging during a time of little stress, if possible. Make sure you have a phone, make sure it has a usable battery, open the My Porsche app, select the exact charger number you are at, and press that "start charging" button right after you plug the cable into the car.
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