High-power charging trucks for mobile power sources

Porsche has established a fleet of high-power charging trucks providing mobile charging on demand.

Seven charging trucks were prepared by Porsche with project partner ADS-TEC for a special Porsche Track Experience at The Hungaroring in Budapest where Soul on Track offered customers an opportunity to test the electric Taycan on a circuit.

Such driving events present organisers with the challenge of charging a large number of Taycans quickly and simultaneously, so the trucks have a proprietary charging system and buffer storage unit.

With a power rating of 3.2MW, 10 Taycans can be charged simultaneously at maximum speed.

The battery buffer storage unit has a capacity of 2.1MW/h which means up to 30 Taycans in total can be charged and the trailers can be fully recharged within four hours under good conditions, generally with renewable power.

For example, during a three-week customer event in the Portuguese city of Portimao in November 2019, the power came directly from nearby photovoltaic systems.

“We have now used the trucks at numerous events all over Europe and have carried out around 5000 charging operations – sometimes at extreme temperatures down to minus 40 degrees,” Porsche experiential marketing director Ragnar Schulte says.

“Their performance has therefore been tried and tested.”

Customers can try the Taycan as part of the Porsche Experience events.