Taycan and Tesla superchargers
Discussion
I have a Taycan Turbo S ST 2022 and have charged three times at two different Tesla sites on the red/white superchargers.
The first time, back in Jan this year, everything was ok.
The last two times, within the last two months, the charge has been ok, but on attempting to restart the car I experience the yellow 'Electrical System Fault - inspection Necessary' warning. When this fault is displayed the car cannot be moved as it won't go into reverse or drive. Both times, after about one hour, with several times locking/unlocking the car, the fault clears itself and I'm able to drive away.
I have no issues charging at home Ohme), work (Podpoint) or public (Ionity). The issue seems to only be with Tesla.
Has anyone else experienced the same issue and know what the solution is?
The first time, back in Jan this year, everything was ok.
The last two times, within the last two months, the charge has been ok, but on attempting to restart the car I experience the yellow 'Electrical System Fault - inspection Necessary' warning. When this fault is displayed the car cannot be moved as it won't go into reverse or drive. Both times, after about one hour, with several times locking/unlocking the car, the fault clears itself and I'm able to drive away.
I have no issues charging at home Ohme), work (Podpoint) or public (Ionity). The issue seems to only be with Tesla.
Has anyone else experienced the same issue and know what the solution is?
Ballistic said:
How do I check for this?
Enter you VIN here.https://recall.porsche.com/prod/pag/vinrecalllooku...
Discombobulate said:
Ballistic said:
How do I check for this?
Enter you VIN here.https://recall.porsche.com/prod/pag/vinrecalllooku...
Many thanks for your help and suggestions so far.
not sure if it's helpful but the Tesla chargers also seem to cause problems for Ioniq5. don't recall what the complications were - try here...
https://www.speakev.com/forums/
https://www.speakev.com/forums/
RobbyJ said:
Does your car have the 150KW onboard charger option for 400v chargers? If so it could be that that's at fault?
My car does have the 150KW onboard charger option for 400v.If its this that is at fault, I fail to understand why I have charging issues with Tesla but not Ionity.
It's been suggested that the issue might be heat related, as Tesla 400v charging generates more heat than 800v will, and might explain why the error takes so long to clear if something is cooling down.
I've got the car booked in with Porsche for it's first service and I've asked them to check out the high voltage charging circuitry at the same time.
I've got the car booked in with Porsche for it's first service and I've asked them to check out the high voltage charging circuitry at the same time.
I charged at a Ionity site yesterday without any issues, although the charge was slow at 100KW. There was an Ionity engineer there, repairing one of the stalls, and I asked him if there was any particular reason for it not being as fast as usual. His response was that the charger might be throttling back due to demands on the local grid.
I was parked up next to another Taycan and I asked him if he had experienced any issues recently charging at Tesla. He said he hadn't, so the problem does seem to be with my car. He did say that there is a recall, which doesn't show up when you check your vin, related to thermal management.
I was parked up next to another Taycan and I asked him if he had experienced any issues recently charging at Tesla. He said he hadn't, so the problem does seem to be with my car. He did say that there is a recall, which doesn't show up when you check your vin, related to thermal management.
I recently had the car serviced and the brake and heater warranty recalls done. Car is now bang up to date on recalls and software.
Dealer could find no reason as to why I'm having issues charging at Tesla. I think Porsche know more about this issue than they are letting on. My personal opinion is that the problem only seems to effect some Taycan models and is something related to the hand-shaking between the Porsche and Tesla software. Maybe Tesla are intentionally making it as hard as possible for Porsche owners to charge on their network?
I haven't dared try Tesla charging again, since the last time it temporarily bricked the car, which is frustrating as some of their sites are in good locations for my travels.
Dealer could find no reason as to why I'm having issues charging at Tesla. I think Porsche know more about this issue than they are letting on. My personal opinion is that the problem only seems to effect some Taycan models and is something related to the hand-shaking between the Porsche and Tesla software. Maybe Tesla are intentionally making it as hard as possible for Porsche owners to charge on their network?
I haven't dared try Tesla charging again, since the last time it temporarily bricked the car, which is frustrating as some of their sites are in good locations for my travels.
Update.
Today I took a brave pill and decided to try Tesla Supercharging once more to see what would happen.
The site I used was Tesla Dartford, the same site where I last experienced issues after charging my car back in the Summer.
This time I did two things differently;
1) I put the postcode of the site into the Porsche sat-nav, so that it will pre-condition the battery prior to my arrival.
2) I ended the charging session by pressing the button inside the cars charging port, rather than using the Tesla app on my phone, as I had done previously.
And the outcome was no yellow electrical system warning on getting back into the car and I was able to drive away without any issues.
I've got to say that Tesla Supercharging, when it works, is a great experience. Each site that I have seen typically has a dozen charging stations, most of them are available without having to queue, they are some of the fastest chargers out there and the cost is a lot less than the other UK high speed charging operators.
Much better than the Ionity experience right now IMO.
Today I took a brave pill and decided to try Tesla Supercharging once more to see what would happen.
The site I used was Tesla Dartford, the same site where I last experienced issues after charging my car back in the Summer.
This time I did two things differently;
1) I put the postcode of the site into the Porsche sat-nav, so that it will pre-condition the battery prior to my arrival.
2) I ended the charging session by pressing the button inside the cars charging port, rather than using the Tesla app on my phone, as I had done previously.
And the outcome was no yellow electrical system warning on getting back into the car and I was able to drive away without any issues.
I've got to say that Tesla Supercharging, when it works, is a great experience. Each site that I have seen typically has a dozen charging stations, most of them are available without having to queue, they are some of the fastest chargers out there and the cost is a lot less than the other UK high speed charging operators.
Much better than the Ionity experience right now IMO.
I charged at the same Tesla site today but at a different stall, and got the yellow electrical system warning again when attempting to restart the car. I had to take the keys out of range of the car for 25 minutes to let it reset before I could drive away.
This has really got me baffled with my car, it seems to be 50/50 as to whether Tesla Supercharging will trigger an error or not.
The car has been fine fast charging on all the other operator sites.
This has really got me baffled with my car, it seems to be 50/50 as to whether Tesla Supercharging will trigger an error or not.
The car has been fine fast charging on all the other operator sites.
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