Recent content by TonyR

Except the battery on any other car won’t kill you if you get it wrong.

To add to the above, the car uses the motors to do most of the braking and put the energy back into the battery. The only time it uses the mechanical brakes is if the battery is full and won’t accept any more input from the motors braking, the last few mph when you are coming to a stop, you...

A mix. According to Porsche off is the best for energy efficiency. I have it off on long cruising roads. I switch it on for controlling speed downhill and I switch to Sports+ mode for driving twisting roads. It has a much stronger regeneration in that mode - more like having engine braking...

That’s why I use Google Maps or Waze. Porsche navigation is poor too.

I use Google/Waze and transcribe the charging location from the Porsche charge planner and then switch the charge planner off but keep the Porsche nav in the speedometer screen for the map that shows the boundary of where I can get to on the current charge.

Preconditioning depends. Many find it crashes the Porsche navigation app every half hour or so. If it doesn’t then it will precondition as much as time and driving allows (about an hour). Otherwise don’t use Charge Planning but set the car to Sports+ about 40 minutes before you want to charge.

You’ll probably be disappointed the first time on DC charging rates until you get the hang of battery temperature /preconditioning and starting charge percentage. Also as you’re coming from the Netherlands beware long uphills which can drain the battery until you get to the top and recharge...

Which side is your DC port? Mine (UK) is on the left which you said wasn’t working.

Can’t help feeling manufacturers design cars to discourage working on them. Why should you need to take the back seats out to remove the dashboard for example? Didn’t know about the bonnet/hood moving up to protect pedestrians in an accident though. And don’t have the HUD but had assumed...

Kudos to him for doing it. Just worried he’s going to find the battery has been damaged and that’s a major issue. Maybe why Pt2 has not arrived.

How dare you ask! 😂

That’s as I expected. Right paddle equates to changing down to overtake. Left paddle changes the level or recuperation aka engine braking similar to changing gears in a manual car.

I think they are designed to emulate gear changes. So flipping the paddles increases or decreases the level of regen which simulates engine braking differences between gears in an geared car. The IONIQ5N started the trend AFAIK. BICBW

Apart from the first mile where it uses the mechanical brakes to clean the pads and discs the braking thereafter uses the electric motors regeneratively

Given the depreciation on Taycan’s I’d be inclined to get a good deal now on a used J1.2 and then trade it in for a used J2.1 in a two or three years. You will get to know and enjoy the J1.2 for the next year or so and will save a lot of money over buying a new J2.1 next year if indeed it ever...