You missed the part that you cannot re-flash PCM6
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The only likely one is the 22kw charger.
Sure, this is not Taycan 2 or J1.3. Understood. Some members may remember that Porsche did some major changes from MY2021 to MY2022 leading to better range. That is the reason I am asking.
No info beside Porsche saying it will eventually come back when it wasn't an option on MY25 - likely they need to source a complete new component, as the old one is too prone to failure.
Yes, you take it to the dealer, and under warranty, in under 1h, he can re-flash a Macan EV PCM.
for 1-3 weeks. Sometimes it might even be multiple hardware replacements.
A know issue with the MIB3 plattform that the Taycan PCM6 is based on. The Audi e-tron/e-tron GT has the same problem for their MMI that is also based on MIB3.Yes, you take it to the dealer, and under warranty, in under 1h, he can re-flash a Macan EV PCM.
I've actually seen it live in April here in Switzerland, at my dealer, while waiting for my summer tires to be changed.
When you bring a taycan with a bricked PCM, he needs to put in an order for new hardware, and your car sits in service
Why are you so confused about having to replace hardware vs not having to replace hardware?
Are you insinuating that software that forces you to replace hardware when it fails during a basic update, is as good as software that doesn't force you to replace hardware?
I have in fact made multiple attempts in tempting my dealer to update my PCM, and they have denied me every time, because when the hardware gets bricked, since there is no big update campaign from Porsche Central, they have to pay out of the dealership's pockets for the hardware replacement, and they don't want that risk.
How the the end user brick it? Trying to root it?
Whether or not a software update is fail-safe (i.e. there is always a way to re-flash from scratch) depends on software and hardware design, not the operating system. I've seen Windows, Linux, RTOS, even bare metal software devices which always had recovery mode - i.e. in the worst case, you can put a fresh load of software on it. I suspect there is a way to do this in the PCM as well, except maybe not via the tools that dealers have. Perhaps Porsche just made it dealer programmable in the next gen infotainment. The fact that it's running Android is pure coincidence.
Discussing maybes or might have beens, or any other operating systems, is irelevant. We have these 2, and objectively, one is better than the other - but I let you choose which one is better based on the choices from above 
Of course ability to recover is better for customers, but has nothing to do with the operating system (since bricking could mean you wiped out the operating system for example). If one of them uses Philips screws and the other one Torx, are you going to theorize how one type of screw is better than the other because one can have its firmware reflashed by a dealer when bricked and the other one does not? I guarantee they could have just respun the MIB3 platform with exposed recovery mode.Very nice anecdote that other operating systems could achive what the android one does. But here is the fact, PCM6 does not achieve that, and the android PCM does achieve it. These are the 2 we have
We are not discussing philips screws, are we? We are discussing the reality of today.
I don't see anyone mentioning that their PCM stopped working, or their car stopped driving. Can you link it directly?
I am confused how people can claim that the PCM that can destory hardware is better than the one in the Macan Ev, which... wait for it, does NOT destory hardware.
