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Or, Plaid buyers won't option FSD...? Maybe you have one key for when you want to drive Plaid like what you paid for, safety score be damned. The other key is for when you want your Elonmobile to drive you around, hopefully safely. Someone will figure out way to game the safety score. Me...

FSD is the modern day enabler of a new generation of Darwin Award recipients.

My car had a litany of symptoms that appeared all at the same time: Bluetooth died (all aspects - can't recognize paired phone or add a new one), Wifi died, Apple Carplay died, telematics to Porsche servers died, Smartlift stopped working, News and Weather apps are gray, Calendar app is gone...

My dealer told me the stations with the green lighted rings are the newer ones (better / more reliable than older ones without the green lighted rings). There are two manufacturers of these newer ones - Signet and Siemens I believe. One has gray sides, one has white sides - but I don't recall...

My favorite grocery store is 5 miles away. I know how to make that an enjoyable 40 minute drive.

So were you ticketed? Or just have a "discussion"? Last year when I first got the Taycan, I may have exceeded reasonable limits for speed and/or acceleration once or twice, and had two "discussions," but neither resulted in a ticket - in both cases I was asked and knew exactly what the speed...

Difference between 75 deg. F and 35 deg. F was good for 20% loss of range on my Model S. The computer would not account for this when calculating the range, so as the driver, you had to remember / plan. Taycan accounts for it, but the underlying cause remains (battery less efficient at colder...

992 GT3 - so jealous. Maybe that or a 718 GT4 are the only cars I might rather have than the Taycan. Or better still - BOTH! Now where's that number for my divorce lawyer again...

One could hope that those who can afford a Taycan would have a degree of maturity exceeding that of your typical Facebook political debate. And for the most part we do. There are a lot of strong opinions on this thread, and some of the posts are dancing on the verge of uncivil - but only...

I maintain a 220 gallon saltwater reef tank and go SCUBA diving when I can (which isn't often). Golf and tennis, and I love watching big budget brain dead action and sci-fi movies (I will tolerate a movie that makes you think as long as it checks the big budget, heavy action, or sci-fi theme -...

If you have lost all of Bluetooth, Wifi, Telematics (your vehicle info on the Porsche website is stale), SmartLift, and Carplay, you may have a faulty communications module. This thing is separate from the OTA module (that can also cause stale telematics data). It apparently lives beneath the...

Definitely don't discount the impact of the grid - even if there are no other cars charging, just turning on 150 kW or even 270 kW of load is a big step function. I don't know how it works, but I expect there is some sort of communication with the grid supplier to confirm the load can be...

Yes, and only if the Porsche navigation system already knows it's a fast charger. If you just plug in the address, that's not good enough. Also note if your predicted SOC at arrival is 0%, the battery may not pre-condition, instead saving precious energy for the traction motor. Let's not...

By "other device" are you meaning a PLC-enabled device on the service side (e.g. Porsche Home Energy Manager) or a PLC-enabled device on the vehicle side (e.g. say, a Porsche Taycan)? I assume you are deleting the saved device record in the PMCC?

Pushed a little harder at a most recent HPDE event at VIR full course - hardest 20 minute session consumed 38% of the battery. This format was four sessions with the longest break between sessions being three hours - just enough time charging between sessions to be able to survive a fourth...

Turning down the charge current will reduce the heat in the enclosed (but pretty) PMCC wall box. But should you ever decide to upgrade to a 350 kW DC fast charger in your garage, at least you know that #1 AWG will still be overkill.

The driver control message is triggered when the car does not sense any steering inputs after a period of time. You can have both hands on the wheel driving straight and get this message, (I believe you can get it regardless if you have or are using Innodrive, ALK and/or ACC, but I cannot...

Wonder how many of the Taycan as a first Porsche buyers came over from Tesla... And are we counting Cayennes / Macans as Porshces? Our first was a Cayenne (while we owned a Tesla). Taycan was 2nd. The 1987 944 Turbo poster hanging up in high school got me into cars - just took a while to come...

I plugged in my 2012 Model S every night for the 8 years / 100,000 miles I owned it, with a target charge at around 80%, except for any long trips where I would charge to 100%. At the end, the maximum range (according to the computer) had declined from 265 to 245 miles at 100%. Plugging in daily...

All true. It's heavy. But it's surprisingly quick despite it's weight. If Porsche could get, say, 1500 lbs out of the car, it would be an absolute beast!