“Porsche Cayenne Electric gets radical wireless charging tech”

[HellNo]

Update: Porsche Newsroom Release

Autocar Article

From the article:

The Porsche Cayenne Electric will be offered with a wireless charging pad, claimed to be the first manufacturer-supported inductive charging solution on the market.

Officially named Porsche Wireless Charger (PWC), it offers speeds up to 11kW and works in temperatures ranging from -40 to 50deg C. Porsche claims it's unaffected by debris such as leaves or snow. The pad operates at around 90% efficiency.

The pad is straightforward to initiate. When driving towards it, the car's digital display cuts to gridlines overlaid on a feed from a forward-facing camera, to help the driver line up with the pad, drive over it and park in just the right place.

The Cayenne’s air suspension then lowers the body a few centimetres, a magnetic field fires up beneath it and the invisible transfer of electrons into the battery begins.

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[HellNo]

I hope it aligns better than the charger in the Taycan centre console

 

[chun]

The company that got Cable chargers failing and discontinued 22kw charging because they couldn’t figure it out, bringing to market first production wireless charger.

I have about less than 0 trust in this

 

[andb]

What was wrong with the cable?

 

[Bennachie]

Have to say no issue at all with centel phone charger

 

[chun]

What was wrong with the cable?

They had to recall it in USA, as it was melting.
In europe, no issues.
Same cable, different voltage.

 

[chun]

Have to say no issue at all with centel phone charger

J1.2 I assume?

In j1.1 it toasts your phone. 5 mins of charging may result in permanently damaged phone.

 

[Vercingetorix]

Not for use with pacemakers and mechanical watches. Doubles as an induction cooker when needed.

 

[Jasper4S]

Pretty cool, not sure if there is a use for it here in NL, most Cayennes here are daily driven and parked outside. Not sure I want that floor-charger on the drive way

 

[chun]

Anyone wanna bet on how much it will cost?

I'm betting on 6k extra option.

 

[Bennachie]

J1.1, '24 model year

 

[andb]

They had to recall it in USA, as it was melting.
In europe, no issues.
Same cable, different voltage.

I mean, what's the advantage of the wireless charger? Aside of having your car fully charged every day but that's a bad thing, even keeping it 80% SoC all the time may not be ok.

 

[Iben]

J1.2 I assume?

In j1.1 it toasts your phone. 5 mins of charging may result in permanently damaged phone.

In J1.2 the charging function works perfectly + it has cooling inside the console

 

[chun]

In J1.2 the charging function works perfectly + it has cooling inside the console

So it only took them 5 years to figure it out.

How many years until wireless HV chargers made by porsche stop melting or burning garages? Remains to be seen /s

The fact that they didn't do a recall on j1.1 about this wireless phone chargers tells me more than enough about porsche )

 

[HellNo]

More details on Porsche Newsroom.

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