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Another connected car issue for PCM today. Drove out to my son's frisbee games this morning (Pacific Time) and all services were working properly. We had Apple Music running, and I was able to send the address to the car from my phone before leaving. Came back to the car after his game to head...

He he, I did this with my Mercedes dealer with my first EV. He wanted to charge me for an oil change. I asked him if I could observe that process which was when the penny dropped that there was no oil to be changed ?

You probably don't need it unless you have a long daily drive and a short overnight time to re-charge in. I actually run my EVSE at a lower power level than its max (my EVSE is max 40A / 10kW). The lower the current, the less the losses due to heat in the wire. The more important one to add to...

Whoa, that is some truly amazing data to have, thanks for sharing it. My 4S is sitting at about 90% SoH too, but I picked the car up in mid April 2021. Interestingly, I am not seeing a big difference in the estimated range. I don't check range mode, but in Normal mode during the summer time, I...

A 350kW charger can provide up to 920V and up to 500A (not at the same time - it must stay within the power envelope of 350 kW apparently). A 500kW charger can deliver 1000V at 500A. At those levels, I would want to be very sure that the adapter I was using was properly engineered. Years ago, I...

? => Joke!

Tesla drivers need video games to make up for the lack of driving experience ?

I think that you are being a little harsh there. The chargers that were available to any EV driver (as opposed to just Tesla drivers) were likely most commonly 50kW. EA has its problems, but they certainly did push the technology forwards with their 150kW and 350kW stations (something, I note...

Not sure whether it is available in New York, but we switched over to Porsche's own insurance and, given the low mileage we drive now we're both working from home, we're saving a lot over our previous Geico policy. They cover my Taycan and my wife's Audi Q5 and guarantee OEM parts for all...

Our EA location has been pretty good. One unit was consistently derated for some reason, but mostly working. The downtime earlier this month was for a site upgrade. We went from the old 150kW units with the square holes at the top to all new 350kW units (except for the CHAdeMO one). Nice upgrade...

I have seen them be missing, along with the parking lot free space indications that are on the map here in the US, and I assume it is just more of Porsche's lack of understanding about the intermittency of cellular data. (I suffer from this a lot as my garage has pretty much no coverage). When...

UK is miles too. Most things went metric, but we (I'm in the US, but an expat who grew up in the UK), kept miles for roads and pints in the pubs :)

Did you hear all the fans spin up on the EA stall when it said it was initiating charging? If you charged OK at a different DC charger before, and at the Porsche dealer afterwards, I would suspect a problem with that EA location.

Wonder if I'll be able to convince the wife and kids that a two seater is a good option again...

My 4S only gets ~250 miles at 100%. You're getting over 300 from a full charge. In my experience, the Taycan range estimates are pretty good, and with a destination set in the navigation it is really good. The predicted arrival percentage is normally within 1-2% of the reality, and tends to be...

Once P&C was fixed (there was a software update around the end of 2021 IIRC), I have had maybe 1 or 2 sessions where it didn't just work. In fact, since then, I haven't really had any totally failed charging sessions on EA. The only issues I have with EA at this point have been too many...

Or even just back up to a wall, and run the engine for a few minutes with the exhaust aimed at the wall - the apartment I used to live in banned people from reversing into spaces because they didn't want the soot on their walls! If that isn't hitting the wall, it ends up in the air, and in our...

How are you getting 3.7? The best I've seen has been 3.2, normally I max out at 3.0. I don't really do absolutely identical drives, so I don't have a direct comparison, but my longer winter drives tend to be around 2.9, sometimes even 3.0 (30-40 miles minimum). Short drives of a few miles suffer...

Not just my experiences, but also some folks online who drive EVs for work (e.g.https://twitter.com/KateFantom/status/1614754824838316035?s=20). The difference though maybe the type of driving. Longer freeway drives are probably less abusive to EV tires than stop-start traffic, which is kind of...

What I will tell you is that my tires on both the EVs I've owned have lasted longer than on my previous ICE cars, and when it comes to brake dust there is no contest. The Taycan's front wheels have almost no brake dust on them when I wash it. My wife's ICE car has a black film on the front...