Fun Fact is right, right on the money. I suspect there are a few here like me that can remember even before the first S was delivered. Tesla tried to call a meeting. Actually they did call a meeting, they invited VW, MB, Audi, BMW, Nissan, Toyota, Honda, GM, Ford to a EVSE Charging workshop. It was after the Roadster deliveries, but before the first S's were delivered. You know those days, it was when Tesla was more rumor than manufacturer. Tesla wanted a US standard and was of course was going to propose their S/X design plug/charge port. Same one we use today. I don't think we would have known this meeting was even called had it not been for a couple of EV e-mags reporting on it. It sort of embarrassed Tesla, but really pissed EM off. No one showed up to the meeting. The e-mags reported on the meeting and that no one attended by Tesla. Word was something like "if you don't want to go with our choice and don't want to discuss it, we will go our own way." Seems like a lifetime ago.
Hey and thanks for not calling out my mistake in that last post. The one where I fat fingered and said you had a X vice your S. Best of luck to you with your Porsche. I personally want all EVs all manufacturers to success with their own design & approaches. The more the merrier that reduces the ICE.
It's not a charging standard issue (though Tesla's is better, it's not the main issue here). It's Porsche supplier's bad design. Some more reading if interested.
TLDR; Porsche designed EVSE's based on pure theory, pushing the spec envelope to the point where unless you are plugging it in in an industrial spec installation, you will likely cause damage to your home. So they remedied it by halving the default charge current from 40A to 20A. You can override it, but only until next power cycle. Porsche did come up recently with a wall connector which is hard wired, avoiding a cheap supply cable issue, but that EVSE reportedly has problems charging non-Porsche EV's, even though it sports a standard SAE J1772 connector. Tesla actually sells a (SAE) J1772 Wall connector which is less than half the price of Porsche's but actually works for all EV's, including Porsche. I've actually recommended it recently to few non-Tesla owners, including my own family.
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Another related thing: The in-car charging interface in a Taycan is one of the least intuitive of all EV's I've ever seen. It took me a while, and only after I started digging into the ISO15118 standard, did I realize that Porsche engineers essentially exposed the raw spec to the end user, rather than someone actually designing a typical user experience. It would like an app developer for a text editor, instead of putting a "Open", "Save" and "Save As" buttons, placed an "Open" button, then a dialog box with "read, write, append" choices, then a "Read" or "Write" button and then a "Close" button (which for non-programmers is a typical sequence of steps in programming to read or write a file) - it does the job, but completely unintuitive!
All that said, the car drives amazing! As much as love the P85DL Sport+ suspension, Taycan is a whole new league. Taycan also has things missing from Tesla, like proper brakes, much stronger regen (5x that of a Tesla), HUD, night vision, surround view, dynamic chassis leveling, rear axis steering, etc. I actually considered S Plaid, but overall, even though the Taycan is less powerful, has lower range and costs more money (with all the options I want, not available on Plaid), after considering all aspects I chose the Taycan Turbo. The yoke was probably the final straw for me. At that time I was making a decision, Tesla would not even allow any Plaid test drives, which means I never even tried it, but don't see myself liking it. I never bought a car on faith without test driving it, I guess I am not great Elon cult material. While I realize Taycan is far from perfect, neither is Tesla, and I'm looking forward to driving the Taycan soon. Only time will tell if I'm jumping out of the pan into a fire. 😂
Hey and thanks for not calling out my mistake in that last post. The one where I fat fingered and said you had a X vice your S.
For the purpose of this discussion, S or X is really irrelevant. 🤷♂️
Side note: I did originally have a Model X reservation, only to cancel it after test driving the first Model X - I simply did not like it compared to Model S. I was on my second Model S at that time, since I got bored of waiting for Model X.
