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Don’t know whether this applies in your case, but for the benefit of other readers: in addition to charger errors and mistakes on the database, this can happen if either (a) you don’t have the 22kW optional charger; or (b) you don‘t have a 3-phase cable. Our car was supplied with the latter...

Good choice. The Leica Q series are simply astonishing cameras for travel. Do try the Q Monochrom too — a very different but equally amazing experience.

I like Innodrive and use it most of the time. The biggest feature for me is that it recognises speed limit changes 98% of the time and slows down so you are at the right speed when you reach the sign - even Tesla doesn’t do that. It has saved me from a few speeding tickets. It will also slow...

As you are new to the intelligent range manager, one tip: Whenyou park overnight and plug in, make sure you do NOT have tomorrow’s destination in the satnav. One of Porsche’s dumb design choices is that the car will say “oh, I’ve planned a 50 minute charging stop enroute tomorrow so i don’t...

Just a word of warning after my OPC did a factory reset on mine recently. It turns out that only a random subset of your parameters are saved with your account — others are defaulted or lost. When the OPC returned my car they didn’t know the vehicle had lost all its auto-raise locations, and...

We all need to write to Porsche and explain to them that running a separately-hosted service status page is an essential ingredient of any cloud service. Too often they have had long server outages and no one — including owners, dealers and their own help desk — knows whether it is a local or a...

What a waste of court time. But then the US (and especially CA) willingness to launch lawsuits is baffling to those of us in any other country :)

The National Scenic Routes are fabulous as is the architecture of the rest,stops and other infrastructure along them. Some routes can be boring if full of campervans, so for Atlantic Road and Trollstigen we stayed nearby the previous evening, got up very early — and in the cases of the...

I went to get a screenshot to remind you to look in the manual (available in the app) under warning and indicator lights … but Porsche has forgotten to include the regen indicator in the table!

My highlights (Extended Autopilot in non-US version, vs Innodrive + ALK on Taycan) would be: Tesla AP: - reacts to a lot more potential signs of danger; and consequently gets more wrong ("phantom braking") ... but could also save a life - has generally excellent knowledge about context, so can...

Yes. 70,000 miles of road trips in UK, France, Germany, Spain, Norway, Denmark, Australia, US etc. in Model S and Model 3. And although there was an occasional unexpected braking, in 80% of cases I could see why it was doing so and quickly corrected with a tap on the accelerator. Furthermore...

Sorry, but that is just FUD. Tesla Autopilot would correctly recognise an obstacle, and apply corrective action. Furthermore, its corrective action may be smarter than a human — it will know what is in adjacent lanes and decide whether to swerve or screech to a halt for example. It will apply...

In the Tesla community (the Model S being just a couple of cm narrower than the Taycan) the most notorious width restrictions were these ones at Marlow Bridge. They are low, so disappear from the driver’s view; also I think they had a set at the exit from the bridge which is especially...

Always risky to travel across France on a July or August weekend. Next time check the French forecasts before picking your travel day: https://www.bison-fute.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/Calendrier_2024_Bison_Fute_.pdf

Same issue here. It used to work, then stopped a few months ago and is now greyed out. Trying to select it gives error “function not available”. My credit card is fine - the charging card works normally, but the plug-and-charge does not. I tried to get this fixed during a service. The OPC...

annoyingly, it is quite common for networks to sum up the total from a station with multiple cables (and indeed to count every plug even if they are not all available simultaneously eg Chademo { 2x CCS shows as “3”). This is something that requires some regulatory intervention - it is as...

The terminology allows them to change the rules (and they will in a future year). Everyone pays the congestion charge if they enter. EVs can pre-apply for a discount, currently 100%.

I think the mixed experiences are because the app uses “average” driving conditions, whatever those are. Your example of low temperature and mine of headwinds show the value of ABRP’s more in-depth estimating algorithm which uses weather (either current or predicted), traffic conditions, and...

I once found a 30% difference in estimated battery consumption between A Better Route Pianner and the Porsche app. The latter was wrong and I stopped using it. On closer inspection it was because there was a storm while I was planning and ABRP had correctly allowed for strong headwinds in most...

this seems to be becoming a common pattern. I was offered mid September for a fault but by phoning around dealers, I found a July slot — but no loaner and I have to pay them £50 to collect and deliver my car. I wonder whether Porsche UK is tracking this issue of fault times, which must surely...