krissrock
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So, i wanted to throw this out to you guys in hopes that it might help the next new owner for their first charging session.
I picked my 4 on 12/27 and I today was my first try at charging at all. I have the plug n charge cert and i was ready to rock n roll. I set the destination of the EA via the app and sent the station to the car. the nav new we were going to a charger, so it should have started preconditioning the batter. Whether it did this or not, idk...i wasn't paying attention.
the nav was attempting to me some roundabout way to the charger via the highway, when i can take one street straight to it...so ignore the Porsche nav and went to the EA while keeping the station as the destination.
I got to the station, plugged in,.. saw things get started, so I just walked away.
I just so happened to have left my phone in the car...I came back a half hour later to see....
$10 in idle fees..... WTF. how the fuck did that happen... I was only away for 30 mins, and we're supposed to get 30 mins sessions...
looking at the station, it said it only charged for 2 minutes! so 2 minutes, plus 10 min buffer, then about another 10 minutes of idle... smh
I look at the car, and the car's requested charge was set to 15% somehow! (i got there with 9%)...s o I'm dumbfounded as to how this happened, cuz I had the option checked in the battery settings to always request 80%...
Soooo what happened: there was a prompt on the screen stating that the navigation can set the desired charge...So the nav automatically lowered the requested charge to like 20% cuz it thought, that would be all we needed to get to the EA station we were already at, because I didn't follow the given routing...the guidance never ended.
I had to end the route guidance to be able to increase the requested charge.
Once that was done, I plugged back in, and the charger only charged for 30 seconds before stopping again....so it was also faulty.... i plugged into the other side, and that went normal...
So I say all this to note to ppl, to make sure you check the requested charge and/or be sure to end any route guidance if you use it to precondition the batter...
also, don't forget your phone...If i hadn't forgotten my phone in the car, i would have seen all the notifications that that charging ending 2 minutes after i walked away...that part of the app at least is WAD
I picked my 4 on 12/27 and I today was my first try at charging at all. I have the plug n charge cert and i was ready to rock n roll. I set the destination of the EA via the app and sent the station to the car. the nav new we were going to a charger, so it should have started preconditioning the batter. Whether it did this or not, idk...i wasn't paying attention.
the nav was attempting to me some roundabout way to the charger via the highway, when i can take one street straight to it...so ignore the Porsche nav and went to the EA while keeping the station as the destination.
I got to the station, plugged in,.. saw things get started, so I just walked away.
I just so happened to have left my phone in the car...I came back a half hour later to see....
$10 in idle fees..... WTF. how the fuck did that happen... I was only away for 30 mins, and we're supposed to get 30 mins sessions...
looking at the station, it said it only charged for 2 minutes! so 2 minutes, plus 10 min buffer, then about another 10 minutes of idle... smh
I look at the car, and the car's requested charge was set to 15% somehow! (i got there with 9%)...s o I'm dumbfounded as to how this happened, cuz I had the option checked in the battery settings to always request 80%...
Soooo what happened: there was a prompt on the screen stating that the navigation can set the desired charge...So the nav automatically lowered the requested charge to like 20% cuz it thought, that would be all we needed to get to the EA station we were already at, because I didn't follow the given routing...the guidance never ended.
I had to end the route guidance to be able to increase the requested charge.
Once that was done, I plugged back in, and the charger only charged for 30 seconds before stopping again....so it was also faulty.... i plugged into the other side, and that went normal...
So I say all this to note to ppl, to make sure you check the requested charge and/or be sure to end any route guidance if you use it to precondition the batter...
also, don't forget your phone...If i hadn't forgotten my phone in the car, i would have seen all the notifications that that charging ending 2 minutes after i walked away...that part of the app at least is WAD
