On-street battery-swapping station for electric scooters in Taipei. Rather than plug-in and wait, you can just swap your low battery for a charged one … and go. #climatechange #ev
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Musk undercuts the Biden admin's EV charging initiative:
"Elon Musk has upended a deal the WH saluted early last year to open Tesla’s chargers to other automakers, dealing a blow to Pres Biden’s EV agenda.
Musk decided in the last week to eliminate almost the entire Supercharger team at Tesla. He hasn’t publicly confirmed the move or offered a rationale, but has said the co will slow the expansion of its charging network."
Notion added a Map view so I can finally visualize where I've charged in the past year since I bought the Taycan! Both DC & AC public chargers. All in New England and Quebec so far.
Got the Porsche branded NACS adapter today (free!) the case is really nice! I think it's almost the same as the one I bought from Lectron.
We haven't done much road trip lately so I haven't used any Fast DC charging stations for a while. Porsche gained access to Tesla Supercharger network about a month ago.
EV owners!!! What app(s) do you constantly use on your phone to find public chargers on longer trips?
The whole city of Boston has only one DC fast charger that’s >= 100kw and it’s almost always full - it’s pretty close to where I live though.
City of Boston should do better. Install DC fast chargers on city owned lots.
Gallivan Blvd & Hallet St Parking Lot
740 Gallivan Blvd, Dorchester, MA 02122, USA https://www.plugshare.com/location/362024
On the way back home from North Shore I thought I’d charge up for Newport trip tomorrow. Stopped at Assembly EA station. There were a swarm of KIA EVs waiting, even though the app shows 1 charger was available…
Pulled up EVgo app and found a very high power ChargePoint station nearby… at Ford Dealer (I use that dealer for my truck 🤣) 320kw - wow! I preconditioned the battery so it was nice and toasty and ready to accept maximum charge. So I drove there. And it worked so well. Though it’s very expensive - greedy car dealers!!
The charging curve was impressive on Taycan. Started at 40% SoC, pulling in 282kw maximum. Still pulling in over 200kw at 72%. This car is a beast.
#EV #Charging #EVCharging #ChargePoint #Taycan #Porsche
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My one year ownership experience of the 2025 Taycan Cross Turismo, but also just the EV stuff.
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SLOW level 2 AC public charger @ Newport RI transportation center
The chargers are outside the garage so you only pay $1.5 / hour for charging for the first 4 hours. Way cheaper than parking ($2.5 per 30 mins)
But it is very slow. Rated 6.2kw, but I only got peak 5.9kw. Better than nothing though as we wondered around town and had lunch / coffee.
#EV #EVcharging #ChargePoint #RhodeIsland #NewportRI
First time charging EV in my life LOL
Taycan Cross Turismo x Tesla Supercharger in Provincetown
Started with 57% state of charge and battery temperature never reached optimal range during the 19 mins of charging 🤣 but it reached 150kw within 10 seconds. The supercharger is capable of 250kw delivery and Taycan is capable of 350kw charging. Unfortunately we didn’t reach the fastest charging speed on either of these.
57% to 85% in 19 mins. Not bad. This is enough to drive one way between Boston and Provincetown. The location could be better - it’s a bit too far out from town, I bet the nearby Harbor hotel can set up a bar to accommodate (make money from) EV owners.
At least it’s only steps away from a beautiful beach and great views of the Pilgrim Monument.
#EV #Porsche #Taycan #Tesla #EVCharging #Supercharger #Provincetown
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The only one available charger at the Hyannis Electrify America station is a 150kw. However having 800V battery pack means my car can pull more than that from this one. It stayed 180-190kw all the way to about 75% SoC. I’m very pleased.
The car was like “No it’s not my fault to only charge at 180kw when the battery got nice and toasty on the way to the charger. Blame the charger.”
#EV #EVCharging #ElectrifyAmerica #charging
It seems like charging isn’t the limiting factor of how fast we could travel on a road trip - it’s my bladder 🫠 and the slow service of Dunkin’ in Maine…
Plan for tomorrow drive back home
Gonna try two new charging stations. The first and second legs are gonna be near limit. I’m charging to 100% tonight at hotel.
I love the rental Ford F150 Lightning the production got me. But I’m getting sick and tired of having to download an app for every bloody station I need to charge at. Stop it!! Let me pay by credit card at the station! #EV
The drive from Boston to Ptown had efficiency of 2.7 miles per kWh... winter efficiencies...
I finally put in stats for all the charging sessions for the first ~10,991 miles of Taycan CT4.
Some interesting facts:
- Efficiency: 3.02 miles / kWh
- Peak charging speed: 316 kW
- Lowest SoC before charging: 5%
- Total charging cost: $1,058 (A Porsche Panamera base v6 has 21mpg combined efficiency. For Massachusetts average premium gas price of $3.96/gallon, that would be $2072.4 on gas. That'll be higher for Panamera Sports Turismo.)
- I did take advantage of free Electrify America charging of 733 kWh. If I were not using that, I'd likely charge more at home at about $0.33/kWh.
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Electrify America at Plymouth … one charger is down shown in the app… and one more shows available but actually down (won’t activate) and the 350kw that I waited 10 mins for is reduced to about 170kw
I’m glad my car tells me the charging power is limited by the charging station……
#EV #ElectricVehicles #charging #ElectrifyAmerica #Taycan
Every time I interact with anyone from car dealers I assume they're greedy, not genuine, and lying outright. Am I wrong?
So I dropped off the Taycan at Porsche Westwood (because Porsche Boston moved to Natick temporarily...) last Monday because the instrument cluster (giant screen in front of steering wheel) suddenly shut off while I was driving, and an error was thrown in the car.
Now that kind of thing has been happening from time to time, especially more often in the winter. and it'd be back to normal after several hours. But it doesn't always throw an error. I figured the dealer wouldn't be able to do anything because it is not reproducible. This time it threw an error (like the first time it happened), so I figured I'd take it to the dealer.
I called last Wednesday - no update.
Called again last Friday - no update.
Called again today before service department closed. When the service advisor (SA) answered, he said, he was just discussing with the tech, and they believe particular software update and recall would solve it. It should be ready tomorrow.
I do tend to believe it is a software issue, because how flaky and unstable the problem is. But all open recalls for Porsche Taycan don't mention instrument cluster. There may be internal bulletins about that though.
I didn't press him on what service bulletin or recall he was referring to on the phone. I guess I'll need to see tomorrow.
ANYWAY I'm counting the days it stays at the dealer towards the threshold for the Massachusetts Lemon law.
Gosh I wish I don't have to own a car.
This guy reeeaaaallllly hates #California.
#Trump Blocks California #EV Rules in Latest Move to *Rein In* the State
California leaders said the #state intends to challenge the move in #court, & to find new ways to move drivers toward #ElectricVehicles.
Trump signed joint resolutions of #Congress on Thurs that block California’s effort to phase out gasoline-powered vehicles, his latest attempt to reduce the power of the nation’s most populous state.
#law #Climate
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/us/california-trump-electric-vehicle-waiver.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Come visit the #Energy devroom at #FOSDEM on Sunday. We have 24 presentation listed, with topics ranging from #GreenIT to #HomeAutomation, #ClimateChange and cool hardware projects like repurposing #EV car batteries https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/energy/
So.. finally picked up the Taycan from the dealer today after it was there for 2 weeks to fix the instrument cluster (the giant screen in front of the steering wheel that shows all the driving information). For the past year it would intermittently black out while driving and come back the next day or after being parked for a few hours. Without any fault code.
But over two weeks ago, it produced a fault code in the car and for the next two days, it would immediately black out after driving for a few minutes.
The dealer was in shortage of technicians because their service department had a flu breakout ... Several of their techs were out for a few days. So it took them 4 or 5 days to get to my car ..... Then they tried the pending software update and pending recall (also a software update) and that didn't work. So they finally ordered a new instrument cluster which got air shipped from Germany LOL. Retail price for that is over $9000 I'm glad I still have the warranty...
This is the second time I brought the car in for this problem. The first time I brought it to Porsche Boston and they just cleared the fault code and hoped for the best. When it happened intermittently and didn't have fault code, I thought the techs at the dealer probably couldn't do anything because it was not reproducible. That dealer moved to Natick which is way too far from me now...
I asked for the service record from Porsche Boston and they gladly provided that. I was prepared to get lawyer to start lemon law process if it doesn't get fixed by end of this week. I wonder if the two dealers talked with each other... But the service advisor had been pretty nice and friendly to me... And I don't think Porsche usually air ship parts that quickly...
How do you extinguish an #EV battery fire? Renault developed and patented an extinguishing vent years ago: by extinguishing directly into the battery casing an apparently very effective method. Renault is now opening the patent for further development.
""In the first two months of 2025, there were 13,646 electric cars registered in Italy, up 73.9% compared to the same period last year [..] we are beginning to see the arrival on the market of many new entry-level electric models, which in the long term could enable a growing number of Italians to embrace this technology and get a feel for its advantages."
https://e-ricarica.it/auto-elettriche-in-italia-a-febbraio-immatricolazioni-a-398-vs-febbraio-2024/
#EV