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21" Turbo (non-S) with Conti all seasons. Another track day Friday (third one with the Taycan) and I'm down to 4/32" on the fronts. I can't get rid of them soon enough. They may be good for all year use, snow or cold road performance, wet, etc. They are utter garbage after the first lap on a hot...

You will have reduced acceleration (even without Launch Control) below 25% SOC. Extending that table to 20% and 15% would be interesting. I have not seen a reduction until 25% though I also haven't tried LC except in the 70% - 85% range.

3% is my comfort level, but that depends on your plan B if you can't charge at your destination or stop-over. After a TNIA event at VIR Friday, I had 14 miles range left - not enough to get home (66 miles) or to the EA station at Sheetz in Hillsborough, NC (45 miles). L2 charging at the track...

You (or your dealer) might have that backwards. If you haven't had WMA5 done, the PE update in AMB5 is now integrated into WMA5.

Hypothetically speaking of course, this is a great feature if you are driving curvy back roads above posted speed limits (accidentally, of course). You know what's coming next.

That's exactly it. I think it is incorrect to choose the regen mode based on a presumption of efficiency. Choose what you like the best, then if/when you care about efficiency, drive how you need to drive for more efficiency (e.g. modulating the accelerator to coast if you have regen on or auto).

Some Porsche dealers seem to be better than others. Those that are owned and staffed by true driving enthusiasts seem to value the relationship with other enthusiasts including after-sales relationships (customer appreciation events), how's it going follow-ups, hey I learned this about the...

LOL, I'm the reverse. When I have to have my wife in the car and drive in normal, I get irritated that first time I expect some regen and it's not on by default in normal mode. Otherwise I'm in individual with regen on, sport plus drive and sport chassis, low height.

Eco runs the compressor less than standard mode. Temperature will be regulated just fine unless it is quite hot outside. However the dehumidification effect from Eco is reduced compared to standard. If you live in a humid area, this may mean that at an otherwise comfortable interior temperature...

You can configure a timer without a charging target. What I don't know is if that timer will trigger if the vehicle is NOT plugged in...

Correction - that seems like a good indicator that Porsche thinks drivers will most efficiently drive the car with recuperation off. It's not the mode that matters, it's how the driver drives the car in the selected mode that matters. With recuperation on you can achieve the same result as...

I have experienced this issue once in 14 months - while charging at the paddock at a track (with a NEMA 14-50 extension cord). Reducing the charge current from 40A to 32A worked around the problem, but that isn't always going to work, and if you think about it, it shouldn't work. If you...

Brilliant strategy!

And yes speed is key. ICE or BEV, wind resistance is a function of velocity squared (assuming stationary air). You will get more range driving at 55 MPH vs. driving at 75 MPH.

I put an initial deposit down in mid 2019, with some reservations as my dealer at the time had not been the best on a past purchase. Communication was poor, zero acknowledgement of me committing to buy one of the most expensive cars they sell, and despite moving a decent volume on Porsche, they...

The setting isn't important - what is important is how you drive the car. Best range is achieved at a constant speed from start to finish. Any acceleration or recuperation involves energy conversion losses. So, however you get as close to a constant speed as possible is what matters. For...

There is a service bulletin for some cars that were built with an interior condensate drain hose improperly attached. Maybe that applied to your vehicle...

This is the case with the PCM, but the control modules in the rest of the car run on a super-skinny RTOS or simple embedded micro-code.

Seems fishy to me...

My 2012 model S had more issues in its first year of ownership than my 2020 Taycan. However, in 2012, the Tesla service experience was absolutely exemplary. My Porsche dealer has been good, but Tesla was just simply outstanding. Fast forward to 2018, with tens of thousands of Model 3s also on...