taycan experience: more brokeness

blog/nicos-porsche-taycan-experience-part-10-broken-onboard-charger.mdwn

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+[[!meta title="Nico's Porsche Taycan Experience - Broken Onboard Charger"]]
+
+## Introduction
+
+This article is part of the series of
+[Nico's Porsche Taycan Experience](/blog/nicos-porsche-taycan-experience/).
+
+## The charger
+
+Also known as the AC charger, the onboard charger is that thing that
+converts AC to DC and lets you charge your EV using AC.
+
+## AC charging on EVs / in Europe
+
+There is actually bit of a funny situation existing with AC chargers
+in EVs is Europe.
+
+Many EVs nowadays in Europe are however only delivered with an 11kW AC
+charger. From what I gather, most parts of Europe are offering at
+maximum 3 phase charging on 220V with 16 amps, resulting in the
+maximum of 11kW.
+
+So the choice of car vendors to supply many cars only with an 11kW
+chargers seems to be reasonable at first.
+
+However Here in Switzerland, specfically in the Canton of Glarus,
+there are many 22kW AC chargers around. And if your car "only" has an
+onboard charger suitable for 11kW, then you can only charge at half
+the speed on a 22kW charger of what would be possible.
+
+## Porsche Taycan AC charger
+
+Now comes something funny: when I took over the car, I actually went
+out to a variety of AC chargers in our Canton and was dumbfounded that
+the car would only charge at 11kW. After clarifying I found out that
+in the car I have there is only an 11kW charger in place.
+
+Now the great thing about Porsche is, they simply allow you (for a
+small fee...) to replace it with a 22kW charger.
+
+## Porsche Taycan facelift is missing 22kW charger
+
+Now the bad things about the new facelift Taycan is that as of
+2025-07-03, it is only offered with an 11kW charger - even the high
+end Turbo S and Turbo GT variants only come with an 11kW charger.
+
+So if you change from a pre facelift model to a current one, your
+charging speed on AC can half.
+
+## The broken charger
+
+Let's get back to what happened to me.
+
+On **2024-12-30** the onboard charger broke. This resulted into
+something (technically) funny: into an empty 12V battery.
+
+You may scratch your head right now and need read again: if the AC/DC
+charger breaks, the car is not able to charge its onboard 12V battery
+anymore.
+
+This in turn results into almost all functionality of the car
+vanishing, including changing to a gear, starting the car, moving the
+car, etc.
+
+After having it towed to the
+The [Porsche Center
+OZS](https://dealer.porsche.com/ch/obererzuerichsee/de-CH)
+the car was repaired about a week later on **2025-01-08**.
+
+Because I had actually the 11kW charger replaced before, the failing
+22kW charger was about 1 year old before it broke.
+
+## Review
+
+So like with a lot of failures and defects that I experienced with the
+Taycan, taken it into a single item, this would not be a big issue.
+
+However the constant and repeated failures of not a single, but so
+many components show in my opinion very poor build quality and worst
+of all, very low reliability.
+
+Which in turn means, if I drive anywhere with the car, I need to plan
+with the car breaking, getting a replacement car and maybe staying
+somewhere over night.
+
+Dear public transport supporters, if you want to speak up now,
+you do have a very strong point.
+
+
+[[!tag porsche car]]

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 most severe one you can fear when having an EV.
 
 There are however also less severe things that can break on the
-Taycan, such as the [funny sport sound feature](/blog/nicos-porsche-taycan-experience-part-9-broken-sport-sound).
+Taycan, such as the [funny sport sound
+feature](/blog/nicos-porsche-taycan-experience-part-9-broken-sport-sound).
+
+However, there is a 2nd very severe item that can fail on the
+Taycan. On that I experienced is
+[a broken onboard AC charger](/blog/nicos-porsche-taycan-experience-part-10-broken-onboard-charger).
 
 More to come soon...
 
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   Failure](/blog/nicos-porsche-taycan-experience-part-8-power-system-failure)
 * [Part 9 - Broken Sport Sound
   ](/blog/nicos-porsche-taycan-experience-part-9-broken-sport-sound)
+* [Part 10 - Broken onboard AC charger](/blog/nicos-porsche-taycan-experience-part-10-broken-onboard-charger)
+* Part 11: Broken allwheel drive
 * [The key battery replacement](/blog/nicos-porsche-taycan-experience-key-battery-replacement)
 * Current status: ongoing discussions with Porsche