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Of course another pricey 911. I think that was expected. It's also consistent with Porsche's official new strategy to milk their current technology, specifically the 911's, with high priced, exclusive cars. Heck, even Tesla jumped on the exclusive collectibles bandwagon with the limited edition...

Yea, that was mentioned in the few places online.

Most 911 trims sold today don't even offer manual transmission.

And no powered charge port to turn it back to a decorative decal.

There is one legit user for mobile charger still. I forgot about it earlier as I personally only ever used it once in 10 years, but just talked with someone who was thinking of going to Europe for a couple of months and leaving their EV at the airport for that time. The airport has EV charging...

I agree with your thoughts on the carrying a mobile charger. In a decade of driving EV's, the only time I ever used my mobile charger was when I drove to visit relatives for a week, and plugged in the mobile EVSE in their garage - I knew ahead of time this was the plan. With the Taycan, out of...

Catching up on updating threads like this, adding my garage to the "for those who wish to overdo it". There are 2 additional NEMA 14-50 wall receptacles on the back of the garage, one by each car, in case we needed to use a plug-in one. One of the NEMA 14-50 is connected to a whole house...

That is really sad. Makes you wonder how they managed to screw up the entire line of EVSE's and whether or not whatever in their decision making process allowed this to happen can also happen to their car designs. You know what's even sadder, the one and only competitor which has a proprietary...

Yes, if you need/want 20KW at home. Some people get the 20KW charger for out of the house usage, at home they might not care if it’s only 11KW.

Touché.

There exist valid reasons for making EVSE not accept all cars. For example: If you have a condo reserved parking spot at which you install an EVSE, you might want to not allow other cars to charge for free (whether parking in your spot or adjacent spots). Again for Tesla Wall Chargers there...

Actually that is a logical fallacy. Just because EV vehicles need to accept charge from any EVSE following the standard, does not meat that every EVSE must accept any vehicle which follows the standard. Tesla allows you to lock your wall charger to Tesla only vehicles, perhaps even specific VINs...

Your electrician should tell you (or the inspector will), you cannot have a 240V plug (socket actually) connected to 100A circuit. There is a way you can do it, but you will have to add a new 50A breaker between the 100A circuit and the 50A NEMA 14-50 for example. Your other option, probably...

You might have an issue with a 60A breaker feeding a 14-50 plug. NEMA 14-50 is only rated for 50A, therefore the breaker should be 50A or less. Larger wires (rated for more) are totally fine and will pass inspection no problem.

First, I'm not an electrician. I am an electrical engineer though. My knowledge of the electrical code is mostly due to work I do for myself, which includes things like adding new circuits to the house, whether just new outlets, AC appliances, a whole house generator, EV chargers, etc. Doing...

NEMA 14-50 requires 4 conductors. If you only have 3, or want to save on wiring, you can use NEMA 6-50, which requires only 3 conductors Using a thicker wire (lower AWG gauge number) is always ok. However, check with your local code if there are any additional restrictions, such as a requirement...

Do you have a TeslaTap adapter yet (allows you to charge your VW or Taycan from a Tesla wall charger). If so, try connecting the Porsche Wall Charger --> Tesla J1772 adapter --> TeslaTap --> VW. Wait 30 seconds or longer before plugging in the car. TeslaTap tricks the charger into thinking there...

AWG 1 is overkill for any Level 2 charger, unless you're running it for hundreds of feet (probably even then). My 80A charger on a 100A breaker recommends AWG4 or AWG3. I ran AWG2 and the government inspector who came to inspect the installation still called my solution "over-engineered", but of...