1008km / 9h53 driven 63 minutes charged

[Yves]

Uneventful trip Belgium France
- 1008 km
- 9h53 driven of which 30 minutes traffic jam, average speed 102km/h
- 5 charge stops
- 24.9kwh/100km

-18 minutes charged during lunch
-16 minutes charge to have 30% remaining at destination
- 14, 8, 7 minutes

Same trip 2 years ago in the iX 120 minutes of charging … worse driving conditions with rain so not a 1-1 comparable situation but still …

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[TomekGnomek]

Thats pretty cool and to add some co context on how all this evolves - I’m currently driving a Taycan J1.2 with performance battery pack and its CRAZY how it charges compared to Macans. It starts above 300kw well below battery temps that are optimal for Macan (fast charging window is way wider) and it holds over 200kw easily to 80%.

I charged 10-80 on 400kw charger and did not have enough time to use restroom and buy coffee.

All and all such EVs are ready for long trips.

iX3 should also be a great roadtripper.

 

[Yves]

It depends on the perspective, I find the stops already are more then fast enough it is 2x faster then my iX and in some cases “to fast” per stop, my friend however that did not complain 2 years ago when we drove the iX was now like next year we take my 540 Ice, guess the divide in society has set in and so my answer was, we will not drive together anymore if you want to drive, I cannot stand an ICE car anymore and I like driving my EV so much, way more then ICE and sold my V6 … but I do respect each point of view … but it definitely has driven a divide between us … so probably I will need to adjust my frame of reference, but it will be difficult.
Faster EV charging is always a nice bonus, but the reality is that on busy days the charging stations will not be able to give that insane power to each and every car, so efficiency and the 100% initial range are also important …

 

[Yves]

Little background on IONITY experience


Out of the 5 charges on my 1008km trip I had 3 IONITY as I planned the trip with the app I could force IONITY as preferred stations in the App, but while driving we took slightly different route and the recalculating in car did not follow the IONITY part, a missed opportunity Porsche!

I had zero problems at the none IONOTY points, at IONITY I had to move stalls, 2 defective polls at one stop, did need to skip one stop As it was out of order, luckily indicated so we took one before and after and plug and charge did not work in France … so I can say IONITY sucks even when not in high season … Porsche/BMW/Mercedes get your act together …

 

[Yves]

Return trip
- 1040km driven 9h25
- Did not pre heat battery bit as I driven 1h30 in the mountains, coming doEn battery was heated with minimal pre conditioning
- 5 stops, yeah this trip was not as smooth, no real holiday but super busy at some stops.
- 86 minutes charged as I had some stalls only capable of 75kw and 150kw … only 2 stops had full power and the first stop was not ideaal as we had still 30%, but nature called …
- 24.1kwh/100km with an average speed of 110km/h at an average of around 10C

If you drive the route BE - France, the Luxemburg leg seems now better then the leg via Troyes - Reims …

So lost about 26 minutes due to less then ideal stops / chargers

Part of this is also attributed to the Porsche planner, sending a plan to the car with preferred charge network and you know is the best goes overboard as soon as you start driving …

 

[rcomeau]

Return trip
- 1040km driven 9h25
- Did not pre heat battery bit as I driven 1h30 in the mountains, coming doEn battery was heated with minimal pre conditioning
- 5 stops, yeah this trip was not as smooth, no real holiday but super busy at some stops.
- 86 minutes charged as I had some stalls only capable of 75kw and 150kw … only 2 stops had full power and the first stop was not ideaal as we had still 30%, but nature called …
- 24.1kwh/100km with an average speed of 110km/h at an average of around 10C

If you drive the route BE - France, the Luxemburg leg seems now better then the leg via Troyes - Reims …

So lost about 26 minutes due to less then ideal stops / chargers

Part of this is also attributed to the Porsche planner, sending a plan to the car with preferred charge network and you know is the best goes overboard as soon as you start driving …

May I ask why so many stops? Certainly you can do more than 180km between charges?

 

[Yves]

May I ask why so many stops? Certainly you can do more than 180km between charges?

Different reasons, most important ones are, charger not delivering full charge speed so I take the next charger station in hope to get better speed. Above 60% same reason the car charges ”slow”

So then I prefer to hope and stretch legs, restroom brake if needed and a good cappuccino if it is served …

The planner always keeps this in mind as well, and 4 is the minimum it comes up with …

The first stop we had the car could still do 100km as I depoerted with a full battery but we were already driving for 3 hours … so we decided to have breakfast … if we would have driven to the stop I had in mind we probably would have had 4 stops …

Ideally one long stop and 3 short rest stops on a trip of 1000km …
so one 25 minute stops and 3 10 minute ones but then everything should work and this was not the case … we had a complete broken site on the out leg and bad sites on the return …

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