Out Of Spec Kyle hypermiles prototype Taycan refresh to over 450 miles range!

[Poshfpg]

I’m curious of what you currently bind your diamond button to? I honestly believed that practically everyone bound it to the skip track function. No joke, I can't even imagine a single thing that could be more important than that.

In my book, volume and skip are by quite a margin the two most important features I want on the steering wheel. I would rather have to go into a multilevel menu on the PCM to turn on the indicator than to not have media controls. I'm not entirely convinced that steering is more important than the media controls. Maybe.

Then again, I also thought that the regen button could just as well just make the car instantly erupt in flames, since not a single person in the world had ever pressed it even once, so there might actually be some alternative opinions than mine out there.

I love this , I can never understand why there is a skip track button on some wheels. I honestly believed it was the single most pointless button in existence, I have never ever used it in any car nor even in the main display.

My diamond button is set to activate the 360 cameras. The second one on the side of the display is for the sport sound, I hardly ever use it but when I do think it would be fun to have on I won't have time to dig into a menu.

Each to their own...

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[Poshfpg]

Exactly.
I am a music lover in a musical household and listening to music is one of my/our principlal leisure activities but I find a car a disappointing environment to listen to music and driving the car distracts me from my enjoyment and such detail as I can actually hear, even a quiet car has a 70dB background, so most detail is masked I am pretty sure if I am enjoying music I am not driving as well and attentively either.

I do have music on on long journeys with passengers but mainly myself have silence or listen to talk radio since it is less disappointing or distracting in a car environment and a skip button is pretty well never needed.

On music on my USB stick I usually listen to complete albums but I do have the PCM screen set at the second 3-way alternative screen with map, sound and data on the 3 screens then music has pause and back and forward buttons there if ever I need them.

I did a decibel check at a GPS 130kmh on a quiet stretch of dry autoroute on Winter tyres and got 63db so while I take your point it doesn't ruin the music too much. The Bose does a great job of that...

 

[f1eng]

I did a decibel check at a GPS 130kmh on a quiet stretch of dry autoroute on Winter tyres and got 63db so while I take your point it doesn't ruin the music too much. The Bose does a great job of that...

That is pretty good noise level, but wide dynamic range music often has passages at 40dB with peaks at 105dB. 105dB is pretty loud and if you set a good volume level for that a lot of the subtlety is lost in the background.
The biggest problem in a car is the speaker drivers have to be in the wrong place, acoustically, relative to the listeners so it is fundamentally never going to be good. Modern DSP reduces the obviousness of the shortcomings quite well but it is still polishing a turd.
OTOH for quite a few years recording engineers have been squashing dynamic range to make their recordings sound OK on earbuds out and about and in cars which is sensible from a sales perspective but makes most modern recordings sound dreadful on a capable stereo.

It is a shame since it wouldn't be impossible to have both an unadulterated recording as well but for 95% of customers what they do suits so

 

[whitex]

I set the small diamond button to mute the camera proximity alarms. I find that one pretty useful. ?

Isn't the mute button always on the screen when the proximity alarms are going off? I typically check the source of the proximity alarms before turning them off, so having the mute button on the same screen as the alarm sources seems convenient. That said, you are another example why buttons should have programmable functions - people's preferences vary quite a bit.

 

[ShiftyWolf]

Isn't the mute button always on the screen when the proximity alarms are going off?

Yeah, I think so. When I'm in a location I know well, like my own garage or driveway, I like having the mute button right on the wheel itself.

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[Daniel]

Home is above the city center.
I noticed and checked with the OBD that the regen button, in the case of a cold start or after a 6 hour shutdown, allows to slow down and recharge (slightly...) without using the classic slowdown with the brake pads, before accessing full electric braking.
Diamond button is set to activate the 360 cameras , automatic activation quite uncertain with my CT4 ...

 

[mutanthands]

I can never understand why there is a skip track button on some wheels. I honestly believed it was the single most pointless button in existence, I have never ever used it in any car nor even in the main display.

Tell me you don't have kids without telling me you don't have kids...

 

[Poshfpg]

Tell me you don't have kids without telling me you don't have kids...

I have 2! ?

 

[mutanthands]

I have 2! ?

They must be well-trained, ours asks for a new song (what feels like) every 10 seconds!

 

[Chas1]

I love this , I can never understand why there is a skip track button on some wheels. I honestly believed it was the single most pointless button in existence, I have never ever used it in any car nor even in the main display.

My diamond button is set to activate the 360 cameras. The second one on the side of the display is for the sport sound, I hardly ever use it but when I do think it would be fun to have on I won't have time to dig into a menu.

Each to their own...

I set my steering diamond to raise the suspension. Too may speed bumps in my neck of the woods.

 

[Jonathan S.]

If charging infrastructure don't improve, these gains in efficiency won't make the user experience much better. Just look at how frustrating it was trying to get to 100% for the test, in the beginning of the video. Charging time may improve but if you still have to wait 30min just to use the charger, what is the point? Personally, I would be more excited if there are Porsche only charging stations here like in Germany.

For me, the dismal CCS1 infrastructure in New England is exactly why the '25 would be far more appealing than my '22: many more Taycan trips would be feasible w/o having to be at the mercy of EA and similarly dysfunctional networks.

 

[Tooney]

For me, the dismal CCS1 infrastructure in New England is exactly why the '25 would be far more appealing than my '22: many more Taycan trips would be feasible w/o having to be at the mercy of EA and similarly dysfunctional networks.

More range is good, but it does not necessarily mean fewer stops or shorter road trips. On my 700+ mile road trips, my charging stops are controlled by the distance between EA charging sites. If I get 50 miles more range in a MY 25 but the next charging site is not within that range, I still have to stop and charge, but maybe for not as long.

 

[Jonathan S.]

Agreed on the relatively small advantage for longer road trips from that kind of range increase.
But for medium-ish road trips, especially in winter temperatures, that range increment can be mean the difference between being able to reach a destination sans charging vs rolling the dice with CCS1.

 

[Chris8536]

Agreed on the relatively small advantage for longer road trips from that kind of range increase.
But for medium-ish road trips, especially in winter temperatures, that range increment can be mean the difference between being able to reach a destination sans charging vs rolling the dice with CCS1.

range needs to effectively double to make a difference from the v1 Taycan. Effective range at 85 mph was only 190 mi. Needs to get to 400 to compete with lucid etc to get me back in one.
Would love that thought but this isn’t it. Probably barely 270 mi at 85 mph now.

why can’t get get the S.F. to LA road-trip in a single charge like lucid?!

 

[Jonathan S.]

For you, perhaps. For me, and traffic speeds where I travel, the apparently increased range would make many more itineraries practical with the Taycan.

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