Can I use my Porsche home charger to charge a Tesla (assuming I have the physical adapter)?

[admatian]

Anyone do this successfully yet? If so, please help.

Thanks,
ADM

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[69Mach390]

Anyone do this successfully yet? If so, please help.

Thanks,
ADM

Haven’t done it, but the answer is- yes you can.

The “chargers” are in the car when talking level 2 charging. The unit on the wall is an EVSE, which essentially just sends electricity from one place to another. It doesn’t care what car you have.

I charge my Taycan with my old Ford EVSE. Didn’t have to do anything special. Just plug it in and the car and Porsche App determine what happens next.

 

[daveo4EV]

Anyone do this successfully yet? If so, please help.

Thanks,
ADM

https://www.macanevowners.com/forum...-common-misconceptions-what-is-an-evse.22275/

 

[daveo4EV]

Anyone do this successfully yet? If so, please help.

Thanks,
ADM

it should work - but my PMCC always error'd out when charging my son's Tesla Model Y - there is no reason it shouldn't work - but when presented with EV compatbility problems with their EVSE's (EV chargers) Porsche is unconcerned and non-responsive.

EVSE's are supposed to be universal and support all EV's in a given region - however implementation differences, bugs, defects, and market size sometime leads to some EVSE's not working with all vehicle's…

the good news is normally replacing the buggy/incompatible EVSE is easy, straight forward and will resolve the issues.

the Porsche EVSE's are some of the worst EVSE's on the market - and many taycan owners have opt'd for non-Porsche alternatives for various reasons - one of which is Porsche's inability to provide any meaningful customer support when presentated with non-Porsche compatibillity problems

YMMV

the long and Tortured history of Porsche's PMC+/PMCC/PWCC is documented below…

https://www.taycanforum.com/forum/t...uide-to-the-porsche-evse-pmc-pmcc-pwcc.13886/

 

[daveo4EV]

Anyone do this successfully yet? If so, please help.

Thanks,
ADM

the answer is:

• it should in a normal world and is expected to charge all EV's
• reality is "maybe" - depending on if you encounter this "known" bug with porsche chargers + Tesla's

https://www.taycanforum.com/forum/threads/latest-pmcc-ota-update-broke-charging-my-tesla-model-y-long-range….10941/

the answer is "it might" - if it works great - if it doesn't good luck getting Porsche to care enough to resolve the issue.

you'll have to try it an see and if it doesn't you are very very unlikely to get Porsche to resolve the issue - the best path forward would be purchase a non-Porsche EVSE - there are several top choices from vendors other than Porsche that handle all EV's and present fewer problems than the Porsche units.

 

[Teo]

Anyone do this successfully yet? If so, please help.

Thanks,
ADM

yes, you can, my model Y have charged with no issues,
my connect+ is a european model software limited to 20A 4.6 kw
(even with a 32A plug teorically giving 7.4 kw)

 

[admatian]

Interesting. Thanks for the feedback from everyone. I think I have to enter the charger's web app and list other cars in my profile. However, it is requesting a password which it says was in a letter when the car was new. My dealer says they don't have access to that. Any tips?

 

[69Mach390]

Interesting. Thanks for the feedback from everyone. I think I have to enter the charger's web app and list other cars in my profile. However, it is requesting a password which it says was in a letter when the car was new. My dealer says they don't have access to that. Any tips?

Usually you use the car’s app to set up charging. The car tells the car to charge. The EVSE is basically just a fancy extension cord (super simplistic view).

 

[Teo]

Interesting. Thanks for the feedback from everyone. I think I have to enter the charger's web app and list other cars in my profile. However, it is requesting a password which it says was in a letter when the car was new. My dealer says they don't have access to that. Any tips?

The Chargers dosen’t shows my Model Y in the list of cars i Think It does that only with Porsches

you can reset the Charger+ to the Factory settings and Charge Whatever You Want…

 

[daveo4EV]

yes, you can, my model Y have charged with no issues,
my connect+ is a european model software limited to 20A 4.6 kw
(even with a 32A plug teorically giving 7.4 kw)

the North American units are completely different than the Euro units - hence the very very different results in product quality - it's well established that the Euro units have better track record vs. North American units…so your experience with your Euro Porsche EVSE doesn't really apply.

 

[daveo4EV]

Interesting. Thanks for the feedback from everyone. I think I have to enter the charger's web app and list other cars in my profile. However, it is requesting a password which it says was in a letter when the car was new. My dealer says they don't have access to that. Any tips?

one of the major reasons many Taycan owners over the past 5+ years have opt'd to go with another EVSE is Porsche North America's complete inability to provide any meaningful support for their EVSE product and being largely and demonstrably clueless about their own product and EVSE's in general.

the "vehicle list' feature is only supported for Taycan's (not even Audi's or the Macan EV and probably the Cayenne EV) - the vehicle list feature requires EVSE protocol support from both the EVSE and the vehicle itself - and to date the _ONLY_ product shipping anywhere in the world that supports this feature is the Taycan - not even Porsche's other EV or Hybrid products provide their identity in a manner compatible with this EVSE's access control list…

I honestly don't know why people fight so hard to avoid the conclusion that these EVSE's are simply poorly done products with a lot of documented problems.

spend $800 or less and get an alternative product that will simply work and work well and ignore the Porsche EVSE and put it on a shelf - it's simply a terrible terrible EVSE and has a lot of issues and Porsche is provably unwilling and unable to provide any support or fixes for this aspect of their product portfolio - ignore it, it most likely will cause you grief, move on.

• ChargePoint Flex
• WallBox
• Autel
• Enphase/clipper-creek
• Tesla Universal Wall Charger
• Emphoria

are 6 very very afforable alternative EVSE's that are 100% compatible with your Porsche and other EV's and wil actually function as advertised and should you have support issues - their customer support is excellent and won't tell you you're going to void your battery warranty when using a non-Porsche EVSE (which is a simply ridiculous and common assertion by many many Porsche dealers service personal)…

 

[whitex]

Porsche EVSEs in North America are probably the worst EVSE choice you can make for your garage, regardless of cost (if you start looking at benefit per dollar spent, then Porsche looses by a parsec).Maybe if you only ever want to charge the Taycan and no other EV, and you live in a cold climate, and you can live with it occasionally not charging your car overnight, and you have the latest Porsche EVSE (or all recalls done on the old one), then you can get by with the included EVSE, but honestly, if you can afford a Porsche, spend a few hundred extra dollars on a proper EVSE and either chuck the Porsche one, or store it so you can trade it in with the car in the future (though I doubt it will make much of a difference, maybe the dealer will use it as an excuse to knock off $500 off the trade, but if it wasn't the missing EVSE, they will find a stone chip or some other reason to knock off the the $500 - this is me with decades of experience trading cars speaking, and I've owned many, many cars).

@admatian , perhaps if you have both Tesla and Taycan, try it the other way, hardwire a Universal Tesla Wall Connector - that one will in fact charge both your Tesla and Taycan at up to 11kW. Tesla EVSE so much better than Porsche (and so much cheaper too, though perhaps not if you got the Porsche one for free, but even then, I wouldn't use it).

 

[John in LA]

Yes

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