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As pretty much the last major automaker to get onboard, I would certainly hope they'd be able to get right what everyone else did before them. Yes, it works like it should. Cool. The fact that was even a concern is a bit concerning in itself. :cool: But yes, good that they were able to...

Our Porsche adapter doesn't work. Fortunately I was carrying my Ford adapter from our previous Mach-E on the last 2 trips. A have been meaning to try it at a local SC one more time just to confirm, before contacting Porsche for a replacement.

Unless you start the day with 80%+ like most would on a road trip day. By the time you reach your first DCFC, the car has had plenty of time to precondition the battery for the first charge. You're not making it 200 miles that first leg on a cold battery, of course, but there's still plenty...

That may very well work, but I'd only bother with all that if my DCFC options were so limited that I *had* to do it. Otherwise I'm just preheating the cabin before leaving in the morning and going like normal, letting the car precondition the battery for a distant DCFC stop that the car can...

Personally, I'd just charge up overnight and leave cold in the morning (except cabin heat). It's not worth playing games that don't work half the time anyway. As long as you have enough chargers along the way to be safe, just go with that.

Those don't seem quite right, or would be unusual. Typically both the EA and SC membership discounts are roughly 25% off. An EA station that's 60c base price would usually be ~45c with the discount. 48c would usually be ~36c with discount. SCs vary a bit more. For instance, one random one I...

You may be able to manipulate it by setting a much higher arrival % at the charger. For instance, if leaving at 80%, and want to stop at a charger that's gonna take roughly 50% to get to, you might be able to set the "arrive at charger" target to something like 30%.

I can tell you that in the Macan's case (and I would assume all EVs that have battery preconditioning capability) that while slow, the preconditioning system is strong enough to overcome the wind chill effect of 10F-20F temps flowing underneath the battery pack. My pack temp moved from 28F to...

If the car is at 80-90% SOC, my understanding is that it won't precondition the battery if you just start it, set the nav, and let it sit. I think the car is looking to be within roughly half hour range of the station before it starts preconditioning. If you started at like 40%, maybe you'd be...

Just be prepared for seriously low efficiency and range. Last road trip I did wasn't quite that cold, but close (10F) leaving a hotel in Jackpot NV early morning and driving thru ID/UT on the way home to CO. That morning leg I got 1.9 MPK for much of it (normal about 2.8 in warm temps). I set...

That Frisco Supercharger he's talking about is supposed to be working for non-Teslas though. There's either something wrong with that station, or (hopefully not) his car. I always check the Tesla map, setting the filters to "NACS Partner" and "Other EV", with "Tesla" unchecked (Teslas-only)...

Sure, if there's some rule that only allows me one chance to plug in or else get stranded, I'm picking the highest change of success over speed (or price). Fortunately that rule doesn't actually exist. In probably 300 lifetime EA chargers, I've only had to leave a station without a charge to...

I wouldn't say every time. It just depends. For instance, we drive between Denver and Las Vegas every other month. We're still on out first year of free EA so we're using it whenever possible. The EA station on I-70 at Ivie Creek UT rest area has the newer EA chargers. We've had nothing but...

It depends where/when you travel and what you're driving. On the CA coast, those large SC stations are likely a lot fuller than they are in flyover country where I usually travel. The choices are usually an EA station with maybe 3 working chargers, or an SC station with 8-12 working chargers...

I learned long ago with my Mach-E to always use the car's charge port button to end any charging sessions. It usually doesn't matter, but when things glitch, it's usually better to have the car initiate the session termination. That way it's the one in control, and tends to handle it's stuff...

No me! I've got 5 more months of free EA left and I'm gonna keep using it! We've done 6 road trips already since June (~60 EA charges) and have 3 more trips planned before our free year runs out. After that, we'll see. We'll probably take the Lucid Gravity on road trips then, with Ionna as...

Perhaps, but the bigger concern is just keeping the company as a whole going long enough to cross the profitability threshold. If Saudi operations can help do that, I'm OK with it, even if the US operations lag. AFTER they become a profitable company and secure their long-term survival, I'll...

Yep. Although EVgo does have a system that mimics P&C they call Autocharge+. Works a different way than official P&C protocol but effectively does the same thing.

Interesting. Granted, we haven't done much charging in California west of US-395. That's about as close to the coast as we get now (in the years we've had P&C capability in our EVs). Must be worse on the coast for some reason. Bishop, Bridgeport, and Lone Pine are the extent of our...

But that was before P&C, right? With all the extra steps you have to take to open the app, find the charger, find the charger#, and wait for the Porsche app to communicate with the Tesla database and then the charger. That does add time. I was talking about the time using P&C. Granted...