The charging ports of Porsche Taycan were on both sides of the car body!

Charging port for charging Porsche's electric car Taycan

Ah.

This may be common sense for you, but I'm alive and unaware of this fact about Porsche Taycan again.

I love Porsche, and I often look at various models including Taycan, but in my case, I just say "too nice ... (sigh)" and see the shape as I like. Looking only as much as I want, I feel Porsche's existence. I like it.

So, in fact, I don't always pay attention to the details ...

When I look at it, I'm metamorphosing and pinpointing what I'm interested in (laughs).

Taycan charging ports were on the left and right sides of the body

What I noticed this time is that "Taycan's charging port port (so-called refueling port in a gasoline car) is on both the left and right sides of the car body."

If you ask me, I've certainly seen images of Taycan's charging port on the "right side" or "left side".

However, even if I look at them, I don't think about anything in particular, and vaguely say "the difference between a car with a right-hand drive and a car with a left-hand drive" (what is that), or for me, the charging port is either left or right. I didn't really care about the fact that it was in the car.

Since the announcement of Taycan, in the image of Taycan used as a marketing image, it seems that the charging port on the right side of the car body was often introduced, and it seems that it is charging. I feel that the port on the right side was often used even for those who are transferring.

So, somehow I unconsciously thought that the Taycan's charging port is on the right side of the car body, and even if I occasionally see the charging port port on the left side, in fact, my eyes are so worried about that. Was not in.

Ah, yes, I'm sorry, it's all an excuse for my ignorance (laughs).

What made me notice is the pink pig Taycan

The reason why I was worried about the mouth of this charging port this time is that the beginning is hereWhen I saw the pink pick version of Taycanwas.

When I saw the image when the "charging port on the right side" of this Pink Pig Taycan was opened, "Oh, the lower part where it charges somehow looks like a pig's nose only with the pink pig ^ ^" I thought.

It's very silly, but it imprinted in my head that the Taycan's charging port looks like a pig's nose (laughs).

It was a few days after that.

Suddenly, the video on Instagram when the Taycan's charging port closes.masami.kumagai_kyoto's InstagramIt will be the one that was uploaded to.

This is what I bought. ↓

It looks like the Taycan exhibited at Porsche Center Kyoto.

The moment I saw this video, I felt something was wrong. "Something is different"

Yes, that's "Oh !!!! That's a pig's nose!"

From here, as usual, I have a personality that "doesn't stop if I'm curious", so I investigated why there is a difference in the shape of the Taycan's charging port. Until now, I didn't care about anything so much that it was too techy ...

Charging method and charging port shape vary from country to country

Well, and as a result of investigating, I found this easy-to-understand image (Source:An Extremely Detailed Look At The Porsche Taycan's Engineering Designed To Take On Tesla) ↓

Yes, the standard for charging Taycan differs from country to country, and the shape of the charging port also differs accordingly. It is a diagram showing that.

Immediately after the Taycan was officially announced to the world, I think that the Taycans used for marketing were mostly European (or American) specifications.

I didn't even care about the fact that the type of charging and the shape of the charging port differ depending on the country, so I dared to notice the difference. I didn't have one.

For European and American specifications, it is a quick charging standard "CCS type 1 (or 2)" with a pig mark on the charging port on the right side of the car body. → CCS: Abbreviation for Combined Charging System.

(* CCS is on the opposite left side only for right-hand drive cars in Europe)

I see, that's why there were more images that used or showed the charging port on the right side of the quick charging from the marketing of quick charging. I'm convinced now.

And here is the charging specification for Japanese Taycan ↓

In this image, it is very difficult to understand because the illustration of the charging port at the top and the charging port attached to the left and right of the car are actually reversed, but in the case of Japanese specifications

• Right side of Taycan → Normal charging (Type 1)
• Left side of Taycan → Quick charge (CHAdeMO)

It has become.

By the way, this isPorsche official websiteA photo of the charging port on the right side of the Taycan listed in. This seems to be a specification with a quick charge on the right side, but the pig part was hidden. ↓

The charge cable for pig's nose in Europe etc. has a shape that fits in the pig's nose like this (Source) ↓

* Of course, even in European and American specifications, the port installed on the opposite side of this pig charger has a simple normal charging shape without a pig.

And here isPorsche Asia PacificThe charging cable shape used on the quick charging side listed in.

Certainly there is no part to connect to the pig's nose! ↓

* I don't know the details, so maybe this is not a quick charging standard, but a normal charging cable ... but I wonder if you can see that there is a difference in shape anyway, for your reference.

Flow of questions this time

In this way, this question I started to investigate, "Is there a pig's nose in the Taycan's charging port?"

After all:

• Hmm? Is there a difference in the shape of the Taycan charging port?
• Oh, the specifications (standards) are different depending on the country, so the shape of the charging port is also different!
• Eh, were the ports for normal charging and quick charging installed on the left and right sides of the car? ??
• Wow, the Taycan's charging port was not on one side of the car body, but on both sides!

After a long flow (laughs), I came to the discovery (?) That "Taycan has charging ports on the left and right" ^ ^

Check the charging ports on the left and right of the Taycan

I will check it persistently at the end. I took a look at the Taycan configurator.

First, check the left side of the Taycan body. Yeah, there is a charging port.

And also check the body on the right side of Taycan on the other side. Ah. Really, I didn't doubt it, but it also has a charging port!

For me, who has only been in a general gasoline car until now, it is a tacit common sense that "there is only one gasoline filler port on the right or left side of the car". Because I was there, I never thought that "the charging ports are on the left and right".

I should have looked at the left and right charging ports many times, but if you don't care about humans, you won't notice it ~ (I'm just a vague person (laughs)).

It was this event that I learned again that I was too ignorant, but I am glad that it was refreshing in various ways ^ ^!

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