Introduction

This article is part of the series of Nico's Porsche Taycan Experience.

The fan

The Taycan, like probably every EV, features a fan to cool down the battery. It is used in various situations, but especially when charging the car.

When ... hits the fan

Now usually you can hear this fan a little bit, like, a fan. Nobody is surprised here. However, with the Taycan it is a bit different. The fan is built so that small parts can enter the fan case.

This can be anything, but in my case this was a stone. And if a stone enters a fan case of a fast rotating fan, I guess you can imagine the sound it will make?

Analysis and fix

Luckily other parts of the car were broken and analysed actively when this happened. The Porsche Center OZS had a look at and quickly reasoned it must be a stone in the case and they opened it and took it out.

Review

The good thing about this issue is, it was quickly fixed. But what really makes me wonder is, why is the car designed in a way that stones can enter the case in which the fan sits, but obviously not fall out / exit on their own?

In my eyes, this seems to be a strange design bug.