Winter Storage in cold climate

[DMTonka]

I have been impressed by the feedback from you all, especially compared with some of the information I have gotten from our dealer. This will be our first winter with our Taycan and we will be storing it in an unheated garage in MN at our lake place for the season. Following the manual, we are planning on leaving it plugged in to the Porsche Mobile Charger and changing the charging profile to stop at 50% charged. Would it be better for us to leave it plugged in all winter with that as the setting or keep it unplugged when we are not there and plug it in just for the weekend when we are up there (every other weekend or so)? It seems like I should not bother with a battery maintainer like I use on the Lead Acid batteries on our boat and jetski. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks.

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[PanameraFrank]

If you're going to be there every 2 weeks I would leave it unplugged while gone and plug it in when you're there. Try to have it at 50-80% charge when you leave.

As long as it's not getting super low/out of charge while you're gone I think that's the method with the least amount of risk. If you show up the first time after leaving it and the charge has dropped very low, you could reevaluate.

 

[kort]

I have been impressed by the feedback from you all, especially compared with some of the information I have gotten from our dealer. This will be our first winter with our Taycan and we will be storing it in an unheated garage in MN at our lake place for the season. Following the manual, we are planning on leaving it plugged in to the Porsche Mobile Charger and changing the charging profile to stop at 50% charged. Would it be better for us to leave it plugged in all winter with that as the setting or keep it unplugged when we are not there and plug it in just for the weekend when we are up there (every other weekend or so)? It seems like I should not bother with a battery maintainer like I use on the Lead Acid batteries on our boat and jetski. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks.

you could plug it into a 110 outlet.
I really don't know about the Taycan BMS but keeping the car plugged in when parked out of doors in very cold weather keeps the car charged. the tesla would use energy to maintain the main battery. I would keep it plugged in to stem any vampire drain from the cold weather

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