Very low recuperation

[Remedy234]

I’ve had my Taycan about 12 months now but only noticed recently that the recuperation is almost nonexistent in the morning. The power meter moves barely into the green, whether I precondition or not makes no difference.
It does eventually start to work but takes over 30 minutes or more.
is this normal?

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[TAYC4S]

Several factors at play potentially. For instance...

1) 100% charged battery - no real recuperation until there is spare capacity to charge in to.
2) Initial few miles of scrub/cleaning the disks means no real initial recuperation but shouldn't be 30mins.

 

[W1NGE]

I’ve had my Taycan about 12 months now but only noticed recently that the recuperation is almost nonexistent in the morning. The power meter moves barely into the green, whether I precondition or not makes no difference.
It does eventually start to work but takes over 30 minutes or more.
is this normal?

This is normal for the first mile - braking recuperation.

Overrun recuperation can be enabled by pushing the button on the steering wheel.

Note that braking recuperation can generate more than overrun.

Neither add that much back at the end of the day.

Nothing to do with preconditioning - that is for heating / cooling the cabin (and marginally warms / cools the HV battery).

 

[Remedy234]

Mines doesn’t kick in for around 8 miles but it’s usually when the battery is full so I’m guessing my questions been answered,
Thank you

 

[sveinaan]

It's allso dependant on how you brake. On slippery winter roads I have to drive much longer. Compered to dry summer roads.

 

[bn8959]

Keep a close eye on the grey area on the recouperation side of the power bar. It will show how much recuperation is available based on battery SoC. If you set off at 100% SoC there will be no recuperation and no grey bar, but you’ll quickly see a small grey segment appear as ‘spare’ capacity becomes available for recouperation to charge in to. It will continue to grow until around 90% SoC, when it should be all available.

 

[f1eng]

I’ve had my Taycan about 12 months now but only noticed recently that the recuperation is almost nonexistent in the morning. The power meter moves barely into the green, whether I precondition or not makes no difference.
It does eventually start to work but takes over 30 minutes or more.
is this normal?

The friction brakes are used at first to keep the disc surface condition good. Whether this happens daily and for how long depends how you drive.
My car does this disc bedding most days but not for long unless I use them very gently - which probably doesn't clean up the surface very quickly.

 

[whitex]

A quick observation. I just drove ~20 miles in rain+snow combination, roads not salted yet (first snow of the year here). This is the first time that I drove in such conditions since the PSM firmware update which was done with the brake lines recall few weeks back. The Taycan has winter/snow tires on (NF0 rated Goodyears) and had excellent traction (for these conditions). I did notice however that my car seemed to be using the mechanical brakes even by the end of the 20 miles. Worth noting that the brakes felt great (love the new brake feel since the update) and the car was braking well, just that in normal (good traction) weather, my Taycan uses regen for most braking after maybe a mile. Perhaps in slippery and/or cold conditions Taycan switches to more mechanical braking - the whole car got caked over with snow/ice, park assist error message showed up that the sensors are blocked, the wheel wells and vents were caked with ice/snow, but brake disks were clear (consistent with mechanical braking being used, even though I didn't do much heavy braking at all).

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