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Porsche Offers 3 Years of Free Fast-Charging for New EV
Porsche AG says U.S. buyers of its first all-electric car, the Taycan sports car, will be able to recharge their cars free for three years through parent Volkswagen AG’s nationwide Electrify America LLC unit.
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Porsche AG says U.S. buyers of its first all-electric car, the Taycan sports car, will be able to recharge their cars free for three years through parent Volkswagen AG’s nationwide Electrify America LLC unit.
Taycan owners will have unlimited access to 30-minute charging sessions at nearly 500 charging locations to be opened in 42 states by July. Each Electrify America location will have at least two 350-kW chargers that can add 60 miles of driving range in four minutes, plus several slower 150-kW chargers.
The VW initiative aims to add several hundred more sites in the second half of 2019. Porsche’s 191 U.S. dealers also are spending a combined $70 million to add Porsche’s own 320-kW fast-charge system, dubbed Porsche Turbo Chargers, at their own facilities.
Electrify America aims to build a network of stations no more than 70-120 miles apart. The initiative is part of a settlement in June 2017 stemming from VW’s diesel emission cheating scandal.
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