How To Boss Your Taycan Charging Strategy!

[@RB-lt8kt]

All Lithium Ion batteries have a maximum number of charges before unavoidable loss of capacity happens. The ball park figure is 3000 cycles BUT fast or Rapid charging reduces this. Why do you think ALL EV manufacturers state 8 years and MINIMUM capacity of 70% ? Any degradation below the 70% capacity might warrant a replacement battery BUT if the battery has been rapid / super charged regularly (like some lease cars) manufacturers will NOT replace the battery as the owner or previous owner has not followed the required charging health requirements. All EV's can record the number of charges and how the car was charged, AC 7kw or super charged / DC. Your EV i like Alexa reporting on your habits.

[@willoiam]

Super useful and interesting vid. Cheers Tab!

[@blooders4224]

what a really useful and well thought out piece. I thought I knew pretty much everything, but apparently not!

[@TABonTV]

There's a lot of learning as you go with these things, I still am!

[@circlelabs]

It’s so annoying with a $100k car that you can’t just easily set a limit every time you charge (without setting up profiles). Porsche could learn a lot from Tesla’s UI and UX. Love the car, but the software and mobile app need a lot of work to make it to 2024.

[@TABonTV]

I hear big things coming here and much tighter integration with Google... We'll have to wait and see!

[@thornypete]

Great video, would you consider doing a vlog of a road trip?

[@TABonTV]

Thanks! Yeah, at some point when the weather is a bit more fun! 😆

[@kevinburke6743]

Plan Your Journey, plan your day, plan your week. Plan to charge at home, hotel, luxury B&B each night! If you plan to stay electric, have Solar Panel & battery storage. Bubble & Octopus have special EV tariffs at less than 8p/Kwh.

[@MrDead1975]

the taycan it's getting really appealling on the used market, over 700 cars on autotrader with a 4S listed from £49k and it's defo a buyers market so some hard haggling on the cards

[@TABonTV]

Total bargain right now

[@charlesstewart8685]

Recently bought a taycan turbo and drove it back from Arizona to Seattle. I never saw charging over ~170kw even at 350kw chargers. The last third of the trip was in an ice storm though. The chargers were listed as my destination, usually started charging at 8-15% soc and 85-95 Fahrenheit (30-35 C). Should I be unchecking some battery optimization safety thing or do I write it off to the chargers themselves?

[@TABonTV]

There is a battery optimization / protection option. On the charging profile screen on the dash click the 3 dots ... In the corner and ensure that option isn't checked. Many chargers do share the load with other plant though...

[@charlesstewart8685]

@@TABonTV ah, thank you. I think I noticed that once and didn’t mess with that to be careful. I’m guessing should be fine on rare occasion. Still the 170 kw was plenty quick for AZ to Seattle. My only hiccups were chargers were full just once in Napa Valley, a 16 hour interstate closure rerouted me to the Oregon coast, and there an entire town lost power in the ice storm so I found a slow charger the next town over. The Taycan was fantastic all 1500 miles through desert, California hills, and icy mountain passes. Great proof of concept for me.

[@kevinburke6743]

25% to 85% = 50% of range =150miles max. Better to get home nearly dead & 7Kw charge(7Kw) all night.

[@jonfrench7133]

great content by the way. watching this just makes me think that the ev tech is still too bleeding edge. you made the point well, an ICE won’t need a new engine in its lifeline, an EV will at a cost that bankrupt any normal person. I’m sticking with my cayman dinosaur for now

[@TABonTV]

Thanks, yeah, early adopters for sure on a bit of a rollercoaster right now. I'm glad I still have some ICE in the stable too! New battery tech (solid state) cannot come soon enough...

[@oldbasted]

Understandable but the Taycan is a great car. I charge mine gently at 7kwh to 85% nearly the whole time and only rarely away from home. 3000 charges at say a low 130 miles per charge is around 400,000 miles or 25 years motoring for me.

[@jonfrench7133]

I’m wondering what the new 718 technology brings and whether or not this tech is the step change we need to convert petrol junkies

[@TABonTV]

My take is anything without an engine won't make it easy...

[@pauld3327]

Even better: stay between 45% and 70% State of Charge

[@TABonTV]

Perhaps, but that's a lot of plugging in with a Taycan.

[@pauld3327]

@@TABonTV True but the best for the battery is to have the lowest depth of discharge possible.

[@rmb1]

Buy this thing used or lose your ass big time.