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EA, Taycan's kryptonite

For a certain segment of the market they will be quite attractive if the price and quality is good (and they don't start shooting at each other). Probably in urban and suburban areas first, like the Japanese cars were. I recall back in the 60's and early 70's the criticism (and fear) some...

Two out of three isn't bad.

Yes, but when you ask strangers for their opinion don't be shocked when they disagree. For all you know they are a bunch of colour blind, tone deaf, mass murderers. The only person who's opinion counts is your wife, followed by any teen age children, followed by the inlaws, followed by the...

Keep posting these kinds of videos. There is a ton of stuff out there that is really useful even if no one responds.

But we live longer.

As in a pistola?

Would by interesting if you were to ever try the same type of trip in NA with an EV with this detail as to how they compare.

I don't see what the problem is. She managed to park her car in a tight spot without scraping the side.

Garage temps can easily get 10 degrees hotter than air temperatures so in Florida could be over 100F. Your car will need to work harder to remove the heat from charging. I live in a cooler area and have never seen over 85F.

Checked the pins on my connector and didn't see any discoloration.

If the product is unsafe it should be recalled under consumer protection law in most every country but you would need to run it by a defective product attorney to see if there was a case.

I did have a police car drive up along side me last week, lower his window and hold his hand up. I lowered my window, and he asked me what the car was. Told him and he said sweet. I breathed a sigh of relief.

Ok, this is more for entertainment value than usefulness. But could you do 13 states/provinces in 24 hours in a Taycan? Driving in Europe looks like much more interesting than driving in NA.

For all the criticism, he has a better chance of raising the public profile of the poor quality of CCS fast charging than the posts here. Without that profile, history says it is unlikely that much will improve.

Hypothetically, you want to design a car and try out different geometries. Instead of building a full size car, you build a quarter size model. Test that in the wind tunnel. Providing the geometries don't change, scale it up. One of the reasons for dimensionless parameters is to allow...

The issue is that most people do not know the difference between the coefficient of drag and drag force and when and how to use them. Frontal areas for different vehicles can be found along with their Cd's. A quick check finds the frontal areas for Tesla's. So I can easily put together a...

Yes it does. See below, especially the fourth paragraph. Drag is measured experimentally. Substitute into the equation, rearrange and solve for Cd.

Cd includes the frontal area so is unique to the geometry of the car. These kinds of dimensionless constants are common throughout physics and engineering.