Exceptional charging performance, or just the Taycan norm?

[taycan_ct]

Hello all, during a recent trip back from the French Alps I experienced the best charging session I think I've ever had in my Taycan. This was at one of Aire de Rumaucourt's Shell Recharge 300kW units. Here are the stats:

The car is a March 2023 registered Taycan 4S Cross Turismo J1.1 with the 83.7 kWh Performance Battery Plus (standard on CTs).
- 5% to 78%
- 59.012 kWh delivered
- 17 min 15s
- Average charge rate of 206.19 kW
- Peak of 264 kW
- 230-260 kW sustained from 5% to 45-50% SOC

Curious to know how this compares to others!

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[lcarron]

It seems about right for a gen1.1 when the charger can deliver. How much did you pay for the 58kw le delivered?

 

[gnr3312]

My two best charging speeds. 2024 4S with PB+

 

[SergeyIndy]

Nothing spectacular. I have seen mine above rated 270kW peak, but I will never do this again since the battery temp reached over 131F for no gain in actual time and fans were moving so fast, I thought the car will fly away. Have you noted how hot your battery got?

I always use Battery Friendly option that limits the peak to around 150kW and reaches 80% just as fast without overheating the battery - proven by data from several youtube testers - as this is a curve, goes fast then goes slow vs. steady pace when in battery friendly.

 

[DerekS]

Among the Taycan’s many faults, charging speed is not one of them.

As long as you can precondition, arrive with low SoC, and get a good fast charger…speeds are outstanding.

They are even faster on the J1.2!

 

[DerekS]

Nothing spectacular. I have seen mine above rated 270kW peak, but I will never do this again since the battery temp reached over 131F for no gain in actual time and fans were moving so fast, I thought the car will fly away. Have you noted how hot your battery got?

Man I’m the opposite - faster charging the better! I couldn’t care less about temp, I’m assuming the car will throttle if it feels like it needs to.

 

[chun]

Man I’m the opposite - faster charging the better! I couldn’t care less about temp, I’m assuming the car will throttle if it feels like it needs to.

Porsche engineers themselves noted on release of the j1.2 that they vastly overestimated degradation resulted from peak charging on j1.1, hence there is no “battery friendly” mode on j1.2 since they found it to be mostly useless

 

[DerekS]

Porsche engineers themselves noted on release of the j1.2 that they vastly overestimated degradation resulted from peak charging on j1.1, hence there is no “battery friendly” mode on j1.2 since they found it to be mostly useless

I used “battery hostile” on my J1. I never saw any battery loss.

I did get Red Ring of death though…

 

[Sace]

Looks good - And to be expected on the Tacan. If you start with a low SoC and right temp of the battery that is the charge curve you can expect.

By far the most common limiting factor when charging is the chargers ability to deliver. Especially when the stations are busy they throttle heavily which is very clear when you have a Taycan. We have yearly european roadtrips and have seen this happen often.

Normally I put on the "battery friendly" option when charging (Which changes the curve and caps it at around 200kW) just because we usually need more time at the stops than it takes when the option is not on I don't care too much about the battery temp as I only use DCFC a handful of times each summer.

 

[taycan_ct]

It seems about right for a gen1.1 when the charger can deliver. How much did you pay for the 58kw le delivered?

€28.41 (~£24.71 / ~$33.36) in Dec ‘25 with the Porsche card

 

[SergeyIndy]

Man I’m the opposite - faster charging the better! I couldn’t care less about temp, I’m assuming the car will throttle if it feels like it needs to.

The point is that it is not faster and you are taking unnecessary risk. Anyone on J1.1 not using battery friendly chasing these speeds on a regular basis come back and talk to me when your battery or fans fail and note how hot you are cooking that battery 131F+.

 

[gnr3312]

The point is that it is not faster and you are taking unnecessary risk. Anyone on J1.1 not using battery friendly chasing these speeds on a regular basis come back and talk to me when your battery or fans fail and note how hot you are cooking that battery 131F+.

I don’t know what you’re trying to say here but I’m exactly like @DerekS, I want the fastest and best charging experience lol

 

[SergeyIndy]

I don’t know what you’re trying to say here but I’m exactly like @DerekS, I want the fastest and best charging experience lol

I am trying to say that when using Friendly is just as fast as without (zero gain in time to charge from 10% to 80%, rabbit and a hare, only both get to 80% at the same time), I will find evidence. However, you are putting undue stress on the 3 components known to fail and weak: Battery Cells, Front Fans, and OBC that must work at extreme levels for no gain.

I tried it once and never again. Yes, it went to even as high as 290kw or so as I remember to about 50% then battery temp was exceeding 131F, then fans going at max speed, but charge rate went to really low and by the same 20 min time I was may be at 85%.

Youtuber, that I will find did many tests with high end equipment to show zero benefit.

This is not the video that I am speaking of but still credible evidence as Kyle does good work, I am just not a fan of the long videos that he does. I will find the one that actually uses high end equipment that captures many parameters to come up to the same conclusion, but this below is good enough for me to choose a steady 200kW rates vs 290kW that stresses all the components for zero benefit.

Found it, check out Bjorn Nyland.
Bottom line, keep Battery Friendly always on for the use case when you are charging from 10% to 80%-85% on the road trip.

 

[DerekS]

The point is that it is not faster and you are taking unnecessary risk. Anyone on J1.1 not using battery friendly chasing these speeds on a regular basis come back and talk to me when your battery or fans fail and note how hot you are cooking that battery 131F+.

You’re literally saying that faster charging is not faster?
Math and physics disagree.

Fast charging is a designed-in feature of the car, and I’m going to continue using it.
J1.2 holds the high speeds even deeper into the charging curve, and at a higher rate.

 

[Sly_North]

Exceptional charging performance, or just the Taycan norm?

Taycan is exceptionnel.

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