VW owns an controls a lot of Porsche AG. This however does not entitle Porsche AG to use VW resources for free.
They are still owned by VW though. The Porsche and Piech families own the majority of VW stock. The IPO did not fully spin-off Porsche (much the same way the deal with Rimac didn’t fully spin off Bugatti). So yes, all the Porsche vehicles dropped at Port Houston are held at the VW Port area.
Elon owns and controls significant portions of Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Co., Twitter. If he suddenly started offering free Space X satellite launches to Twitter, or free Tesla cars as bonuses for SpaceX employees (with SpaceX not paying Tesla), that would not go over well with other shareholders, probably would be illegal.
Zero from the SA, all gone quiet but SA's rarely call you back or call just for an update.
Ordering a Taycan definitely teaches you patience. Mine took about 20 months (~600 days ) from first deposit to delivery. Would have been much longer if I didn't expand my search nationwide and found a different dealer with an allocation. One thing I learned is that SA's are almost as much in the dark as customers, so really no need to bother them until the car is at the dealership, maybe once at the destination port to check for stop sales but I am still not sure they actually have a reliable way to check until the car physically arrives at the dealer. If you push them, sometimes they will make stuff up. The honest ones will tell you that they know nothing when they don't, but those are rare for some reason. In my nationwide search I spoke with more dealers than I care to remember (40+?), only 4 of them were direct and honest about the situation (which at the time was simple - nobody knows when allocations were going to be available, could be few months, could be in few years). The rest of them made up timelines which never materialized (or came even close to).
I actually ordered one because the delivery time was shorter than most here in Europe. Car was ordered 19/12 and with delivery at dealer 17/2 - Expected handover 1/3. And now it's just sat in a parking lot in Stuttgart
You mean to say the "delivery time ESTIMATE was shorter than most", unless of course you got some kind of a money backed guarantee of the timeline (1% off for every month it's late perhaps?). I was originally told I was getting my Taycan Q4 of 2021 or Q1 2022. The difference was, I stopped believing it soon after. I finally got my car last month.I actually ordered one because the delivery time was shorter than most here in Europe. Car was ordered 19/12 and with delivery at dealer 17/2 - Expected handover 1/3. And now it's just sat in a parking lot in Stuttgart
My last car got delayed two months due to Covid, guess this might be worse.
It was on Sunshine Ace and arrived on March 5th , Congratulations for you to receive your car
Me too but they started to offer some alternatives that could be released by end of March from the port but none of them have similar options like the one i am waiting for.
When the battery is cold the mixing valve 1 will obviously direct most of the hot fluid into the battery temperature control circuit. A 600+ kg battery has a somewhat higher thermal capacity than the passenger compartment.You might find this interesting:
As a datapoint, the 992 was launched in November 2018 in Los Angeles, and the Taycan was launched in September 2019 in Frankfurt. Ten months later. The 992 facelift hasn't happened yet, so I wouldn't expect the Taycan to receive a facelift before the 992. A colleague of mine has a 992 GTS on order, and he's been told by his SA that the 992 facelift is coming January next year. Yes, I know SAs don't always know, but it ties in with everything else I've read about facelifts. I've also heard from multiple sources including my own, very switched-on SA, that the Macan EV has been delayed by one year; it should have been launched this summer but will not now come until 2024. The Taycan facelift will come after that. Everything is pointing towards a 2024 facelift for the Taycan (as a MY25).
Not disputing your point, but Elon did launch a Tesla into space on a SpaceX rocket. And the first Boring Co. test tunnel was built adjacent to the SpaceX campus.
