Taycan fire

[Scandinavian]

I got the battery recall for my Taycan, I saw a nice 2024 Taycan in Tyson Corner VA, Porsche dealer and they refuse to take my 2021 Taycan with 6K miles a car that still under warranty. So if the Porsche dealer doesn’t want to take a Porsche Taycan due battery fears to sale another Taycan is that fear monger?? Btw I sold it in Carvana and got a Macan EV 4S with CATL batteries

Are you sure the reason was anything to do with the battery recalls etc?

I had the same response here in France and it was due to them having far to many used Taycans in stock already.

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[RickDC]

No, they told me that they didn’t want to deal with the recall battery issues And sell my car somewhere else.

 

[BjörnfromHamburg]

Well, yes. I still think it is FM, as there have been 1 or 2 fires worldwide I heard about, with a cause not clear.
As a security measure, Porsche needs to take action.
The do it the "Porsche-way", without compromises and there is a big fuss around it, more in America I sense, than in Germany fe.

Still nobody and neither building came to harm.
Many 1000 of Taycan do a good job every day without any trouble.

 

[ze_shark]

There is simply no evidence for this assertion. If you were correct, then EVs would literally be bursting into fire all over the place, regardless of manufacturer.

If you are afraid, then just sell the car, but either way, please stop making statements that have no factual basis.

There is a wide gulf between "EVs bursting into fire all over the place" and claiming that a problem does not exist.

There is ample anecdotal basis to have a concern about potential risks while charging. Low probability but really high severity.
And stats are lacking because ... legacy stats focus on instances were ICE cars might catch fire (on highways), not where they don't (parked).

32A is a lot of current, i have experienced now twice domestic plugs melting (almost burning) under a lot less (10A).

I do not believe that recognizing common sense risks is an ideological crime.

 

[snstevens]

There is a wide gulf between "EVs bursting into fire all over the place" and claiming that a problem does not exist.

There is ample anecdotal basis to have a concern about potential risks while charging. Low probability but really high severity.
And stats are lacking because ... legacy stats focus on instances were ICE cars might catch fire (on highways), not where they don't (parked).

32A is a lot of current, i have experienced now twice domestic plugs melting (almost burning) under a lot less (10A).

I do not believe that recognizing common sense risks is an ideological crime.

From ChatGPT, I captured the data—

As of 2024, approximately 64 million electric vehicles (EVs) are projected to be on the road globally, with this number expected to rise to 85 million by the end of 2025. In the United States, the number of EVs is anticipated to reach 78.5 million by 2035.

Your anecdotal information simply doesn’t make any sense in the context 64M-85M vehicles, each charging several times a week. With this many EV’s on the road, if we were having serious risks of fires during charging, you would see hundreds, if not, thousands of fires a day.

For the record, 32 A is NOT a lot of current. We all have higher current circuits in parts of our home including 40A/220V for ovens and major appliances. If you are talking about EV charging plugs failing, that is a known issue. For dedicated EVSE circuits the recommended plug is an industrial Hubbell NEMA 14-50. I’m assuming you have that now.

 

[whitex]

32A is a lot of current, i have experienced now twice domestic plugs melting (almost burning) under a lot less (10A).

OMG, you can afford a Porsche, please hire a better electrician. If your house uses plugs which melt at 10A, you have a bigger problem than Porsche battery recall. Your builder, or their electrician, sold you the cheapest "99 cents store" electrical sockets and/or wiring, and/or they might have done a really unsafe job installing them. I hope you don't use appliances like hair dryers, ovens, toasters, clothes dryer, etc. until you get your house thoroughly checked out for proper electricals.

When properly installed and maintained, quality electrical sockets are perfectly safe. I've been charging EV's in my house for over a decade, including one on NEMA 14-50 socket, with zero issues. My hardwired EVSE's draw 80A (both our current EV's max out at 80A), also zero issues. The issues with melting outlets were caused by poor quality sockets not rated for continuous 40A draw for hours, combined with things like Porsche's stingy engineering allowing the Porsche PMC+/PMCC to heat up to industrial spec levels. There were also instances of bad installation (loose connections) causing overheating, but even Porsche, arguably the worst EVSE in North America, finally put in a temperature sensor in the plug (everyone else already had it).

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