Which Type 2 charging cable?

[Neighs]

When I ordered my Taycan I purposely did not order a type 2 charging cable because I needed to buy a metered type 2 charging cable from Ubitricity in order to get subscription pricing when charging using the lamp posts conversions outside my house, and there was no point in paying for 2.

Ubitricity have been having quality control issues with their cables and have stopped selling them until further notice with no current view in when this will be resolved.

So I now need to buy a charging cable...

Do I spend £300 buying a Porsche one or buy a generic for £100-£200 from elsewhere?

Considerations:

1) 5m, 10m
2) Coiled or Straight
3) Black, Orange or Green

I thought that coiled might be nice as it keeps the cable off the floor, but apparently they take up more storage space and I wonder if they put any undue pressure on the charging socket in the car.

Black would match the car, but it might be helpful to have something more obvious so it’s obvious when plugged in. Of course, in London, obvious things aren’t always a good idea.

5m night be tight sometimes? 10m does sound overkill?

I’ve been suggested the following places to buy from:

https://evonestop.co.uk/
https://evconnectors.com/
https://cablesforcharging.com/

Any experience based advice would be much appreciated, thanks.

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[Scandinavian]

They are all the same. Personal choice about colour and length. Only strong recommendation I will add is for a 3 phase cable! At least around me there are quite a number of 3 phase chargers that can give me 11 kW. Disadvantage is that they are a bit heavier to handle. But it is not a big problem at all.

 

[Neighs]

They are all the same. Personal choice about colour and length. Only strong recommendation I will add is for a 3 phase cable! At least around me there are quite a number of 3 phase chargers that can give me 11 kW. Disadvantage is that they are a bit heavier to handle. But it is not a big problem at all.

Does the 3 phase cable support 2 phase, or do you need two separate cables?

 

[old seadog]

When I ordered my Taycan I purposely did not order a type 2 charging cable because I needed to buy a metered type 2 charging cable from Ubitricity in order to get subscription pricing when charging using the lamp posts conversions outside my house, and there was no point in paying for 2.

Ubitricity have been having quality control issues with their cables and have stopped selling them until further notice with no current view in when this will be resolved.

So I now need to buy a charging cable...

Do I spend £300 buying a Porsche one or buy a generic for £100-£200 from elsewhere?

Considerations:

1) 5m, 10m
2) Coiled or Straight
3) Black, Orange or Green

I thought that coiled might be nice as it keeps the cable off the floor, but apparently they take up more storage space and I wonder if they put any undue pressure on the charging socket in the car.

Black would match the car, but it might be helpful to have something more obvious so it’s obvious when plugged in. Of course, in London, obvious things aren’t always a good idea.

5m night be tight sometimes? 10m does sound overkill?

I’ve been suggested the following places to buy from:

https://evonestop.co.uk/
https://evconnectors.com/
https://cablesforcharging.com/

Any experience based advice would be much appreciated, thanks.

I have purchased the CTEK Type 2 lead 5m, £180 from Halfords, works well (only used on my I Pace to date) has nice case as well. German made plus CTEK manufacture the trickle chargers that Porsche rebrand. They do come up on eBay as well.
https://www.halfords.com/tools/gara...rge-cable-type-2-mode-3---1-phase-308118.html

 

[Scandinavian]

Does the 3 phase cable support 2 phase, or do you need two separate cables?

As far as I have seen it supports 1 phase and 3 phase. And I can not see why it would not support 2 phase as well, but I have not tried any such charging station. It is just a cable.

 

[Neighs]

As far as I have seen it supports 1 phase and 3 phase. And I can not see why it would not support 2 phase as well, but I have not tried any such charging station. It is just a cable.

I meant single phase, d’oh!

 

[Nickj]

What did you buy in the end? I’m about to start looking. A few people have said about the 3 phase thing? Do we need a specific lead to max charge due to the taycan 800w battery thing?

Got offered a Tesla oem lead for £100 but passed. Saw a Renault Zoe one also locally fir £50 but not sure if any good!

 

[Nickj]

Is this one ok? £159 and says 3 phase, but bangs on about Tesla?

https://cablesforcharging.com/product/3-phase-32-amp-type-2-type-2-charging-cable-2/

 

[Neighs]

What did you buy in the end? I’m about to start looking. A few people have said about the 3 phase thing? Do we need a specific lead to max charge due to the taycan 800w battery thing?

Got offered a Tesla oem lead for £100 but passed. Saw a Renault Zoe one also locally fir £50 but not sure if any good!

I ended up buying a 7.5m 3 Phase.

https://evcables.co.uk/index.php/for-type-2-cars/type-2-3-phase/type-2-3-phase-g3.html

 

[Nickj]

I ended


I ended up buying a 7.5m 3 Phase.

https://evcables.co.uk/index.php/for-type-2-cars/type-2-3-phase/type-2-3-phase-g3.html

Ta, so a 3 phase t2 for £159 seems about right and a good choice?

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