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Electric Porsche Boxster spotted plugged in at Tesla Supercharger in California
From the spotter:
Analysis by Electrek:
From the spotter:
Spotted this Porsche 718 Boxster Electric using the Superchargers at my work (California)
Most likely they’re testing supercharging, because PECLA down the street has plenty of Porsche fast chargers.
Pretty interesting to see the charge port in the center rear of the vehicle, have not seen that before.
Analysis by Electrek:
The original post only included two photos, but they give us some interesting insights anyway.
First, some camouflage can be seen on the car, it’s just not patterned like normal camouflage. there’s some plastic cladding at the front and rear that seems designed to hide the diffuser – or at least, we hope it is, because it’s kind of ugly. There’s also tape around the rear lightbar and the headlights.
The charge port is where we expected it given previous photos, right in the rear center of the vehicle. The original photo on reddit obscures the charge port, but we reached out and were sent another photo which shows the car directly plugged into NACS, without an adapter:
Porsche EVs have been able to access Tesla Superchargers since last September, and Porsche has been including NACS ports on its most recent refreshes of its EVs.
But most of Porsche’s EVs have two charging ports. Current Porsches come with a NACS connector for DC quick charging on one side of the vehicle and a J1772 connector for AC level 2 charging on the other side.
A single NACS inlet in the back could be a sign that Porsche is considering ditching its previous charging paradigm, and moving to NACS-only for AC and DC. Or maybe this will only be the case with its smaller sportscars, and the 4-doors will retain the two-inlet setup.
Interestingly, this Supercharger is just down the street from the Porsche Experience Center Los Angeles, a facility where you can have a Porsche sportscar experience on a small test track. There are both AC and DC chargers at that facility… but not Tesla Superchargers. Porsche could have used its own DC chargers with an adapter, so this must have been an attempt to test the car on Tesla’s network (there were also two Porsche employees inside the car, further suggesting testing of some sort).
