…Porsche had issued an official statement on issues relative to a seemingly critical issue affecting one model in their range of electrically propelled vehicles and a chap who received the official communication shared it`s [sic] contents while displaying the document as proof,
Yes but his headlines are still gross clickbait. He is monetising excessive griping, which the platforms happily disseminate at speed. Posting stuff that angers readers generates more traffic and therefore more revenue.
And he makes no attempt at balance (the second video above is better).
Here’s what has happened in the Porsche world:
- many owners got a letter WRS0 which says they will be putting on some monitoring software and will let us know in the future if any battery anomaly is detected. That letter basically means nothing. Lots of battery systems have monitoring - I expect Tesla has had it since the beginning - but the German approach to privacy requires a lengthy letter to tell owners they will do so, and to allow them to opt out if for some peculiar reason they want to do so
- a few owners got a letter ARB6/7 which says that as no data on their battery is available, a precaution is required (charge to 80% and don’t park adjacent to house) until they push out some monitoring software. This is irritating for those concerned but smells strongly of lawyers rather than practical experience. No cases of actual problems have been reported as far as I know. And the letter is saying “we don’t have enough data (yet)” and NOT “your battery will catch fire” as reported by some YouTubers.
So all a bit ho-hum really, and not worthy of the coverage it is getting.
There is a further problem in the modern car world: things that are fixed by a software update end up being classified (especially in the US) as a “recall”. This drives headlines like “Tesla recalls 1.3 million vehicles” when in reality all that’s happened is they have pushed out a software update, like the security updates you get on an iPhone. (Porsche seem to actually recall vehicles to the workshops because they can’t get over-the-air updates to work reliably, but that’s another story…)
Look out for the next episode, “SHOCKING evidence that Morgans FALL APART in use and MAY KILL YOU if crashed!!!”.
