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The J1 is a higher performance sedan platform, and also used by the Audi E-tron GT. J1 also was developed first and PPE is less costly https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1113147_first-details-ppe-electric-car-platform-future-audis-porsches

even if it were to be possible, it'll be significantly harder and handicapped vs. a multi sensor system.

Lol. It’s faster than a base Panamera and $8k cheaper.

I suspect it’s an excellent daily driver and commute vehicle. Extremely skeptic the driving dynamics are fun by Porsche standards. One of my big fears for the roadster is that it’s designed by people who in their hearts would rather humans didn’t drive. guess I kinda think about it like M5...

Hydrogen isn’t going to happen for consumer vehicles. It’s more expensive, less efficient, and lacking infrastructure even worse than EVs. it has two insurmountable problems. Battery tech is improving faster than hydrogen tech. There isn’t a viable market reason to invest enough to deploy...

Porsche buyers represent about limit 0% of total world wide car buyers. The EV action is in the mass market In the $25-50k range. approximately 99.9% of all cars belong to people not on car forums. The EV pricing isn’t quite there yet, and the long haul charging infrastructure also is a tad...

ironically, I don’t think this is really true, even as fuel standards have been a cudgel. Ultimately market pressure is going to drive the EV transition as prices come down. Except in some niches, ice vehicles don’t actually do basic transportation better. They can‘t provide the same torque /...

this is also the basic outline of why hydrogen vehicles in the consumer market are f’d. EV can be powered by anythin, whatever is the most efficient to generate electricity at industrial scale.

that instant EV torque is a drug like Dave keeps saying. If you need a touring / commuter car, this is hard to beat on any measure

the manufacturers aren‘t super forthcoming so most of the data we have is from independent researchers and cooperative owners like the above graphs. Some references to their sources here https://electrek.co/2018/04/14/tesla-battery-degradation-data/ but there have been a lot of long running...

The long term study of model S owners found charging with DC fast chargers caused considerably more degradation than your standard at home charging. Fast chargers are not an every time kind of food. also, keep the battery within the 20-80% range as much as feasible. Being outside that range...

i mean cables have operating systems and cpus now too ...

sure .... but also the point. On the street for an amateur driver, there’s almost no performance difference between the absolute best not-gt 911 and the brand new growing pains and all taycan. It’s an outstanding achievement if you want a car to track, I wouldn’t recommend it over a gt car...

i hope this is just lost in translation by the journalist talking to a business guy. Building your own OS is stupid. Even Tesla doesn’t do this. Samsung has tried for years and it’s awful. And they’re a tech company! Build a platform on top of Linux. “It’s fine”

Turns out, most folks don’t even understand let alone accurately estimate the amount of institutional knowledge and expertise necessary to build professional large scale software products. It takes a lot of long term investment. it’s like a software company saying they’re going to spank...

In Range mode, the car won't use first gear at all. No shifts. Ironically, it'll be more shift happy in sport plus as it tries to maximize your torque at all times. but at lower speeds it'll probably stick to 1st gear all the time remember this is only the rear motor. the front motor is...

Thanks Dave!

You can also just have the vehicle delivered to your dealer normally and pick it up locally. You can take a trip to PEC LA and drive one of their Taycans any time now. Fly there and back whenever.

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If you haven’t drive a car with them, you probably won’t notice the absence in any way.