Panamera 4e Hybrid limited to 3.9kw charging
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I have a 2020 Panamera 4e Hybrid and have just had an Andersen EV charger installed. The car has the 7.2kw charging unit onboard and the charger can charge at up to 22kw as I have three phase power at home and went for the full three phase install. Looking at the Andersen app, the charger never charges at more than 3.9kw. Has anyone else encountered this and found a remedy? I can't see any settings in the Andersen app that limit the charging rate and nor can I see anything in the car's settings to control this. It's very annoying.
It’s a tethered system so there’s no issue with the cabling. The car is fitted with the upgraded 7.2kw charging unit so ought to be able to charge at 7.2kw, ie around half the time of the normal 3.6kw unit. All of the published material from Porsche shows the 7.2kw upgrade halving the charging time and I confirmed the position with Andersen before I committed to the installation. It has to be some sort of setting in the car or the Andersen unit itself - or an issue with one or other of those. It would be very odd if the Andersen unit was throttling back the charging pace due to load in the system. I’ve not had any big power draining items running while the car has been charging.
I've emailed my contact at Porsche and asked about settings. There's nothing obvious that I can see and nothing comes up on google. It turns out that Andersen had registered the device as a single phase device at their end rather than a 3 phase device. That shouldn't make any difference as a single phase device should still be able to charge at 7.2kw. However, apparently it can make a difference nonetheless so I need to find an essential journey to do tomorrow so that I can charge it again and see what happens!
There is definitely no issue with cables and the battery and car can definitely take 7.2kw by design. It's not a battery size issue or a low amp rated cable issue.
@gangzoom That's a good question. I did consider the Taycan. I think it's a great car. However, at the moment you can only get the saloon and a few times a year I need to sling a bike in the car or take a load of stuff to the tip. It would really annoy me if my super expensive car couldn't do what I want it to do! I also think that there will be a few occasions a year when I'll need to do a long journey in a day and I'm still not sure that there is enough coverage to guarantee a lack of stress and strain. As with the saloon issue, I will find it too upsetting if, after spending a huge amount of money, it causes me angst. The Panamera ST, which is what I've got, will take a bike and a load of rubbish and will do as many miles as I want it to do - so long as I can find a petrol station. Yes I'll run out of battery power but if I do, who cares? At least I'll still be able to get home. I've found that in the few weeks I've had the car, I've been able to do the vast majority of my journeys on all electric or hybrid. And then occasionally I've put it in sport or sport+ mode and it has sounded fantastic and moved like the proverbial off a shovel. I know the 4S, Turbo and Turbo S are faster but frankly, I'm not sure I need more than 465HP in that sort of car. I have some other toys to play with if I want to go even faster than that!!
There is definitely no issue with cables and the battery and car can definitely take 7.2kw by design. It's not a battery size issue or a low amp rated cable issue.
@gangzoom That's a good question. I did consider the Taycan. I think it's a great car. However, at the moment you can only get the saloon and a few times a year I need to sling a bike in the car or take a load of stuff to the tip. It would really annoy me if my super expensive car couldn't do what I want it to do! I also think that there will be a few occasions a year when I'll need to do a long journey in a day and I'm still not sure that there is enough coverage to guarantee a lack of stress and strain. As with the saloon issue, I will find it too upsetting if, after spending a huge amount of money, it causes me angst. The Panamera ST, which is what I've got, will take a bike and a load of rubbish and will do as many miles as I want it to do - so long as I can find a petrol station. Yes I'll run out of battery power but if I do, who cares? At least I'll still be able to get home. I've found that in the few weeks I've had the car, I've been able to do the vast majority of my journeys on all electric or hybrid. And then occasionally I've put it in sport or sport+ mode and it has sounded fantastic and moved like the proverbial off a shovel. I know the 4S, Turbo and Turbo S are faster but frankly, I'm not sure I need more than 465HP in that sort of car. I have some other toys to play with if I want to go even faster than that!!
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