Charging error once I get to 85%

[Tpup]

Don't know if this matters but both your profiles, home and canyon, say 80% and the timer screen shot says 85%. I'd set them all the same and see if that matters.

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[ForeverWild]

Don't know if this matters but both your profiles, home and canyon, say 80% and the timer screen shot says 85%. I'd set them all the same and see if that matters.

More information… I only have one profile selected now. No timers at all. When 85% was reached my home charger sent a notification to my phone that charging has stopped. I opened my wall charger app and it said “Charging stopped”. Zero amps being sent to car. I opened my Porsche app and it said 85% and the green battery graphic went to white and it said, “Initializing…”. (Typically what you see when first initializing charging). I believe since my wall charger was delivering zero amps. The car gets an error message and the battery graphic on my app goes to red. The question is… with only one profile set at 85% and no timers selected. Why is the car wanting to initialize again after completing a charge to 85%?

 

[Travis]

@ForeverWild Not trying to be a stalker but that is an unreal gorgeous home. Architectural Digest type living. Kudos!!!

 

[chun]

More information… I only have one profile selected now. No timers at all. When 85% was reached my home charger sent a notification to my phone that charging has stopped. I opened my wall charger app and it said “Charging stopped”. Zero amps being sent to car. I opened my Porsche app and it said 85% and the green battery graphic went to white and it said, “Initializing…”. (Typically what you see when first initializing charging). I believe since my wall charger was delivering zero amps. The car gets an error message and the battery graphic on my app goes to red. The question is… with only one profile set at 85% and no timers selected. Why is the car wanting to initialize again after completing a charge to 85%?

People are explaining you wrong this whole thing because they don't understand themselves.

In profile you set the minimum battery % the car will start charging towards as soon as you connect it to a charger. It will not stop at that % after reaching it, it will continue until 100%, if you don't have a preferred charging time. Otherwise, it will pause, and continue until 100% when the preferred charging time comes (or however much it can charge until the preferred charging time ends)

Under timer, you set a max charging limit that the car will reach before the departure time you set, for example 7AM. The car will charge to that % limit and stop. For it to work, you need to activate the "Repeat" slider, otherwise that timer will be 1 single use, and you need to select in which days of the week the timer that sets the max % limit will be used - if you want every day, select all 7 days.

Say you configure these both as follow:
- Profile set to 25% -> the absolute minimum it allows; with preferred charging time between 1AM and 8AM (the car needs around 6h for 80%)
- Timer set to 85%; with repeat, for all days of the week and departure time of 8 AM
When you arrive at 8 PM home, with 5% battery, and plug the car into the charger, it will start charging right away until 25% and pulse green. Then the charging will pause, and pulse blue light, until 1AM. At 1AM, the car will start charging again and pulse green, until 85% or if it can't reach 85%, until however much it can until 8AM. After that 85% is reached or the departure time is reached, the car will stop charging and it will pulse white/grey.

If it ever goes red, it means there was some problem establishing electrical connection. That could be related to your house electrical panel, you charging station's settings, etc.

It makes perfect sense once you understand what all the settings do. It's very user un-friendly, but it is robust and makes perfect sense.

 

[Scandinavian]

I am stunned that after 5 years in operation for the Taycan, we still discuss how to set charging levels i¨for it.

I guess if you had set out to confuse people as much as Porsche have with all these issues, you would have hade a very tough time.

Tesla and BMW and other EV’s, you set a max charge level and that is it. Most of these settings in other models work independent if you charge AC or DC!

Well done Porsche!

 

[Tpup]

@chun does a good job of explaining how it works. You do have a timer activated based on the screen shot in your original post.

My profile is "location-independent" set to 25% (which means it charges up to that amount when I plug in, and optimized charging; yours looks to be set to 80%. I do not have a time range setup in the profile). My timer is set to "ready for departure" at 7:30am, 7 days a week, at 80%. If I plug my car in at noon, it charges to 25% immediately and then sits in "pause" mode until it needs to start charging again in order to get me to 80% by 7:30am. Works every time and I don't ever get an error.

I'd suggest you change your profile to be location independent and set whatever min charge you want with no timer. Then when you plug in it will charge to that min charge and sit in pause until it needs to come on to hit your "ready for departure" time.

FYI I don't use the porsche charger; I have a ChargePoint. I have no settings turned on in the ChargePoint software; I let the Profile/Timer control the process..

I will say the software and workflow is a great example of why germans are not known for great software.

 

[luvdrivn]

is the charger hot? I was having similar issue and the charger was quite hot at the end but if I didnt check it right away, I was unaware bc by the time I got to the care, it it had cooled. Ultimately my issue ended up being a bad adaptor.

 

[ForeverWild]

People are explaining you wrong this whole thing because they don't understand themselves.

In profile you set the minimum battery % the car will start charging towards as soon as you connect it to a charger. It will not stop at that % after reaching it, it will continue until 100%, if you don't have a preferred charging time. Otherwise, it will pause, and continue until 100% when the preferred charging time comes (or however much it can charge until the preferred charging time ends)

Under timer, you set a max charging limit that the car will reach before the departure time you set, for example 7AM. The car will charge to that % limit and stop. For it to work, you need to activate the "Repeat" slider, otherwise that timer will be 1 single use, and you need to select in which days of the week the timer that sets the max % limit will be used - if you want every day, select all 7 days.

Say you configure these both as follow:
- Profile set to 25% -> the absolute minimum it allows; with preferred charging time between 1AM and 8AM (the car needs around 6h for 80%)
- Timer set to 85%; with repeat, for all days of the week and departure time of 8 AM
When you arrive at 8 PM home, with 5% battery, and plug the car into the charger, it will start charging right away until 25% and pulse green. Then the charging will pause, and pulse blue light, until 1AM. At 1AM, the car will start charging again and pulse green, until 85% or if it can't reach 85%, until however much it can until 8AM. After that 85% is reached or the departure time is reached, the car will stop charging and it will pulse white/grey.

If it ever goes red, it means there was some problem establishing electrical connection. That could be related to your house electrical panel, you charging station's settings, etc.

It makes perfect sense once you understand what all the settings do. It's very user un-friendly, but it is robust and makes perfect sense.

Excellent post sir. I have a General Profile now set to 85% and a Timer set 85% daily by 7 am. When the car reached 85% at 9 pm it stopped charging - No error. Very happy with that.

I’ll experiment more tomorrow and set my General Profile to 50% and leave my Timer at 85% by 7 am daily.

Theoretically my car should charge to 50% and pause (blue light) and resume charging later in the evening to achieve 85% by 7am using the Timer function.

My suspicion is that the car will charge to 50% using the new General Profile I’ll set tomorrow and get a red light error and stay at 50% due to the error.

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