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Agreed. Few if any Porsche buyers currently qualify for the EV credit on a purchase, and the car itself doesn't currently qualify for the purchase credit either. A leased car does qualify, but the Porsche lease rates are terrible, and at least in my area most people seem to buy their Porsche...

This is 100% true and - maddeningly - it's a problem that could be easily fixed in software. The Taycan has every technial feature needed to precisely control charging, but the software developers made a mess of it with their horribly obtuse implementation. I want to sit the Porsche developers...

Nobody has "extra" systainers! Not enough Systainers, sure, but too many? Can't believe it.

While I am sure it will be extremely fast, and I do believe that Porsche needs to chase track records in order to maintain its brand image, this is not for me. It's got two too many doors to warrant a Manthey kit in my opinion.

I like it, and would not order a car without it. That said, a Taycan without it is still every bit a Taycan, so don't sweat it.

Quite the straw-man argument there! 600 kWh? How about more like 100. 400V solid state batteries? More like 800, 1000, or more. Active cooling? It's everywhere already. So what about a more normal 100 kWh battery, which would require 1.2 megawatts? That's less than four EA chargers with their...

Oh boy is the front view ugly! But you say 1,300 HP axial flux motors and 800KW charging? OK I'll take one. Wait, how much? Nevermind.

The pad replacement interval is six years (as other mentioned above a few times) worn or not. The rotors don't need replacement until worn, which I have heard quoted variously as "30% longer than steel" (says Porsche, being typically conservative), "50K-70K miles" (Macan reference, without...

The cleanest answer is: Get two chargers, hardwired into the same circuit, that have the ability to communicate/coordinate their output to stay within the capabilities of that circuit. If you have say a 60A circuit and charge at 48A, a single car will get 48A, but charge two cars and each gets...

You are not the first. Prepare to slap hand on forehead: https://www.taycanforum.com/forum/threads/how-to-show-outside-air-temp-on-one-of-the-screens.22980/

All things being equal, I'd go for the Turbo S. The GTS suspension tweaks are quite small whereas the extra Turbo S horsepower is easy to feel. But are they really that close in price?

They can be re-used. You could get an external BMS that supports the Taycan battery module and an inverter that supports that BMS and the relatively low voltages of the 6S Taycan modules. So say a Victron MultiPlus-II 10KW or 15KW, and a BMS from these folks...

Seat ventilation needs to be adjusted, as mentioned earlier. But even then it's rather subtle - or weak depending on your point of view. Some other car brands have "cooled" seats, but the Taycan only has "ventilated" seats blowing internal cabin air, not specially cooled air. And that...

I loved the deep and throaty sound of the XKR. Fantastic! I may have even pulled the fuse to stick the exhaust gates in the open position to get even more noise. But after going EV, I now think that cars should be quiet and I don't plan to go back, ever. I do not miss it, and now find loud cars...

I replaced a 5.0 Jaguar XKR-175 with a Taycan GTS. Best swap ever! Or if you'd like to feel really old and stodgy, go with the 971 Panamera.

I wish they would, definitely. By the way, what happened to the person running 9xx.com who advertised a service to enable them. Their web site seems to have not been updated for some time, and still talks about a 2024 schedule.

Based on what I have read, I am planning on at least 100-120K miles on my PSCB rotors, and pad replacement by date rather than miles. If that information holds then the PSCBs aren't that much more expensive for non-track use than the iron brakes in the long long term. The ceramic rotors, on the...

Navigation: The onboard nav is decent, but not great - the visuals and routes are a bit meh. I end up using CarPlay for navigation most of the time, switching to the onboard navigation for road trips to get battery pre-conditioning, which is quite important with the first generation Taycan, far...

It does inhibit the mobile signal, at least in theory, but it's rarely a problem where I live, and knowing how cell coverage works in Europe, it's probably even less of a problem there.

I joined, but have found that "Taycan owners" and "Porsche owners" are two quite different groups. And they keep sending me paper magazines filled full of adds for stuff I don't want like IMS bearings and expensive wristwatches.