What charger have you installed at home?

[W1NGE]

Sadly getting invites to PEC Silverstone and moving up lists has no direct correlation in my experience.

I have 2 experiences yet to use (long story) and the most recent arrived last December for a car that isn't speced let alone locked - no allocation confirmation yet either.

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[eddieterry]

Oh - thats a shame. Never mind I will eventually get it. My Macan is now 6 years old and my 996Turbo even older so not too worried.

 

[Bigben]

Just had an EO mini pro fitted (really neat and small) but won’t get to try it until November / December as still on waiting list for my Taycan CT Turbo mind you just had an invite for Silverstone so must be moving up the list.

When did you put the order in? Just received my invite today and order was placed early Jan… I was hoping it meant something about being closer to get an allocation too!

Sadly getting invites to PEC Silverstone and moving up lists has no direct correlation in my experience.

I have 2 experiences yet to use (long story) and the most recent arrived last December for a car that isn't speced let alone locked - no allocation confirmation yet either.

Thanks for bursting my bubble ?

 

[f1eng]

When did you put the order in? Just received my invite today and order was placed early Jan

I placed my deposit in July '21 (CT 4S) and haven't had an invite yet.
The sales person was surprised I didn't get one straight away.

I am going to wait until the F1 teams are back from the first 3 races then phone and ask.

 

[W1NGE]

Contact PEC Silverstone directly rather than the dealer when the time comes or now to get a list of dates - generally they provide 2 - 3 months in advance.

Sounds like they've overlooked you!

 

[Bigben]

I placed my deposit in July '21 (CT 4S) and haven't had an invite yet.
The sales person was surprised I didn't get one straight away.

I am going to wait until the F1 teams are back from the first 3 races then phone and ask.

I’ll ask about the spectator thing as I‘d like to bring my son but he’s 8yo and if I can’t take him in the car I’m unsure he’d be cool waiting 2 or 3hrs in a lounge…
If you still have F1 contacts, must be a blast to visit the teams there!

Contact PEC Silverstone directly rather than the dealer when the time comes or now to get a list of dates - generally they provide 2 - 3 months in advance.

Sounds like they've overlooked you!

I’m always amazed at how inconsistent the customer experience seems to be on this forum, especially for things which are probably vastly automated in the background ??‍

 

[f1eng]

If you still have F1 contacts, must be a blast to visit the teams there!

I worked in F1 most of my career.
I probably won't visit a factory but may get a driver I know to come over.

I have done a lot of laps of circuits with F1 drivers in modest hire cars over the years which showed me how laughably poor most drivers (including me) that fancy fast cars are!

A lap or two in a Taycan with one of my old mates would be special.

Highlights that really stick in my mind have been:
1. Brands Hatch in the wet with Carlos Reutemann, we were never pointing in the direction of travel, ever, and he had one hand on the wheel and was sitting looking at me and explaining how the F1 car felt in the various corners.
2. The old Nurburgring with Keke Rosberg. He knew the circuit intimately having raced monster sports cars there, it was mind boggling. Actually all rides with Keke were.

Lots of others too like Michael Schumacher at Paul Ricard but those two were mega memorable.

 

[W1NGE]

Left hand right hand is typical Porsche UK.

A spectator can go and you used to be able to share the one session with 2 people + I've done this twice with a guest. Rules do change and we like a rule or three so worth checking with PEC first.

 

[im85288]

Up until yesterday, much of the comments on this thread were purely of academic rather than practical interest. However, we have made a significant change to our planning application to include (integrated) solar panels on the roof of our new garage and will be including a Tesla Powerwall for power storage:

The company we have been talking to are also able to fit a Zappi (22kw) charger to take advantage of our 3-phase supply.

If I understand correctly, this set up (if approved by the planners!) will allow me to:
1. take advantage of 'free' electricity via solar power generation
2. store excess electricity generated during the day to reduce consumption at night and/or to charge the car
3. sell back excess electricity to the grid
4. use the powerwall to store cheap rate electricity to minimise peak rate usag,
5. mitigate the impact of power cuts, as experienced recently!

Does anyone have any experience of a similar set-up and can offer any advice?

Does this change what 'e-performance' boxes I need to tick for my Taycan?!

Thanks

Pretty much that aligns with my setup.

I have Solar panels, Tesla Powerwall, Zappi, Eddi and Harvi (the last 3 all being myenergi devices).

Zappi will as you know use excess solar when available to charge the car. Eddi is similar but heats up your hot water. Harvi just makes the two communicate with each other.

Tesla Powerwall 2 as you’ve said will allow you to store all the excess solar or during winter use Time Of Use tariffs (like octopus energy) to store electric at cheaper rates to use during the day.

Most likely if you do what I do you’ll set the Powerwall and Zappi to charge during that cheap slot (00:30 to 04:30) so that your not draining electric from the Powerwall whilst charging the car.

I would not rely on selling back to the grid, prices they buy back at are not that great and you will most likely use it all anyway.

Final advice I’ll offer is the Powerwall is roughly 14kWh. I would go for the biggest solar array you can get (sunpower offer the best solar panels on the market)…mine is 7.8kW so in good days can fill up the Powerwall in a few hours…then heat all the water and start adding charge to the car.

 

[Rob********]

We've just had a Hypervolt installed for my wife's Audi A3 TFSI-e Hybrid. Works very well and looks good. I bought a Project EV post to mount it on.

The app allows you to lock/unlock the charger from anywhere and then it's plug and play. Tells you when it's charged. Still haven't tested the 7.4kw capability yet (the Audi will only charge and 2.8 or something) - need the Taycan to test that, but that's not coming until September...

Hi Richard - how is the Hypervolt charger going? I'm getting a quote and like the sound of it but would be interested to know your thoughts given you got one a while ago.
Thanks

 

[rb33gl]

Hi Richard - how is the Hypervolt charger going? I'm getting a quote and like the sound of it but would be interested to know your thoughts given you got one a while ago.
Thanks

Hi Rob, pretty good I'd say.

We had it installed in July 2021. The only glitches we've had are software and connection related ones. A bit like the Taycan!

Hypervolt ran into some gremlins last year and kept promising software updates that would address things. It wouldn't recognise real tariffs (and would only use some national average of about 15p/kWh for the first year, regardless what you entered), let alone E7 rates. It gave out a lot of false readings (one month is said we had used over 2,200 kWh). There were a few weeks where it stop connecting with the HV servers and my mesh wifi. Couldn't pin it down to anything but it was resolved by relocating a mesh node in the garage so it was only about 2m away. It does need a good wifi connection but people who have had issues do seem to have been helped by HV, including them sending new dongles to try. If you need to, I think they'll help you hard wire it to your network.

HV support were pretty good at sorting things out for us, but the big change came at the beginning of December, with a big update. This resolved everything and the App now works faultlessly. It accepts 2 tariffs, it lists all charging sessions and scheduling is easy. I set it to charge between 12.30 and 7.30am and it doesn't matter if the Audi or the Taycan is plugged in, it just charges.

I don't use the timers in the Porsche App. These are only helpful if you have to leave by a certain time. Charging on the lower E7 nightime rate is more important to me.

Would I recommend it? Absolutely. This also seems to be the view of most users on Facebook too.

Hope this helps

 

[Rob********]

Thanks, great information. Interesting you don't use the porsche pcm to charge... does it stop the car precondition of battery?

 

[rb33gl]

Thanks, great information. Interesting you don't use the porsche pcm to charge... does it stop the car precondition of battery?

I've never preconditioned the battery. As I understand it, you do this via the PCM when you're using the car to plan a route using chargers the PCM identifies. It then get the battery to the right temperature beforehand to optimise charging when you get there. But it obviously uses valuable charge to do this!

So I can't see any point in doing it at home. Just plug and charge.

 

[W1NGE]

Hi Rob, pretty good I'd say.

We had it installed in July 2021. The only glitches we've had are software and connection related ones. A bit like the Taycan!

Hypervolt ran into some gremlins last year and kept promising software updates that would address things. It wouldn't recognise real tariffs (and would only use some national average of about 15p/kWh for the first year, regardless what you entered), let alone E7 rates. It gave out a lot of false readings (one month is said we had used over 2,200 kWh). There were a few weeks where it stop connecting with the HV servers and my mesh wifi. Couldn't pin it down to anything but it was resolved by relocating a mesh node in the garage so it was only about 2m away. It does need a good wifi connection but people who have had issues do seem to have been helped by HV, including them sending new dongles to try. If you need to, I think they'll help you hard wire it to your network.

HV support were pretty good at sorting things out for us, but the big change came at the beginning of December, with a big update. This resolved everything and the App now works faultlessly. It accepts 2 tariffs, it lists all charging sessions and scheduling is easy. I set it to charge between 12.30 and 7.30am and it doesn't matter if the Audi or the Taycan is plugged in, it just charges.

I don't use the timers in the Porsche App. These are only helpful if you have to leave by a certain time. Charging on the lower E7 nightime rate is more important to me.

Would I recommend it? Absolutely. This also seems to be the view of most users on Facebook too.

Hope this helps

Sorry to be a pedant but your statement on the use (and purpose) of timers in the Porsche App (and My Porsche Website and the PCM) is incorrect. The timer can be used to simply control the start and end time (e.g. for tariff windows) of a given charging session if that's all you need. Beyond this timer controlled pre-heat / pre-cool is also available.

Your use case is the same as mine - I use the Porsche Mobile Charger Connect (PMCC, PMC+ will work in the same way) and have a daily timer + location profile for off-peak charging periods. I don't charge daily but as the timer and profile only come into play when the PMCC is connected I never have to fiddle with programming. Has worked flawlessly for 2+ years and no need to purchase an additional EVSE.

 

[rb33gl]

Sorry to be a pedant but your statement on the use (and purpose) of timers in the Porsche App (and My Porsche Website and the PCM) is incorrect. The timer can be used to simply control the start and end time (e.g. for tariff windows) of a given charging session if that's all you need. Beyond this timer controlled pre-heat / pre-cool is also available.

Your use case is the same as mine - I use the Porsche Mobile Charger Connect (PMCC, PMC+ will work in the same way) and have a daily timer + location profile for off-peak charging periods. I don't charge daily but as the timer and profile only come into play when the PMCC is connected I never have to fiddle with programming. Has worked flawlessly for 2+ years and no need to purchase an additional EVSE.

Not being pedantic, thanks for the explanation. I just don't use timers at home as it's easier to set it on the Hypervolt and forget about it, regardless of whether I'm charging the Taycan or the wife's A3.

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