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The concrete advantage is the power output, charge rate, battery thermal management, and efficiency. There's no other widely-available non-Tesla EV that comes close to the Taycan in all four categories, and there are a lot that don't come close in any of them. It's harder to compare with Tesla...

I watched that review now, and there is no way that the Plaid they drove around the 'ring was in the same configuration as Kyle's test car. At a minimum, it was in some special track mode that disabled stability control. Honestly, even though it would be kind of sleazy to have a special track...

There are occasional bits of good information and discussion in this thread, if you stick with it through the other stuff! Re: Taycan's efficiency, I would like to make a couple of points: All of the new crop of EVs have bigger battery packs than the Taycan, so of course they have better...

Yes, the procedure is in Good to Know under Power windows -> Storing the final position.

Unless I'm misreading, that's how to jump a Taycan, not how to use a Taycan to jump another car.

I can't imagine that 5 points will make any kind of meaningful difference even over 10 years.

Yeah, I watched some more videos, and everyone is using 150mL soap to 750mL water (1:5 ratio). The bottle says to use 20mL soap to 1L water (1:50 ratio). I'm not sure I can call it user error because I did follow the instructions, but I'll try again with a higher concentration.

It's definitely not that. I have the sport sound but I expect that when it's turned off the car sounds the same as if it weren't equipped. My car sounds like a computer simulation of an idling ICE vehicle.

I've been trying to download Active Line Keeping and Porsche InnoWrite to test out the self-writing features, but they've been stuck in the activating state for the past three weeks. Does anyone have any suggestions? Having to stay between the ruled lines and manage indentation myself is a real...

I'm using Koch Chemie Gentle Snow Foam. It comes out like thin shaving cream. I watched a few videos and that seems to be the way this stuff works. I guess some people put double or triple the recommended amount to get a thicker foam. I might try that to see if that sticks better. The PPF is...

I've heard such good things about foam cannons that I decided to give it a shot. One thing I noticed: I have PPF on the front end and the doors, and the whole car is ceramic coated. The foam will "stick" on the parts that have PPF, but slides right off the ceramic-only parts. This seems weird to...

The argument in favor of frequent shallow charging, as I understand it, is that your batteries don't heat up as much, and heat is the enemy of batteries. But that should not be a problem with L1/L2 charging on a modern EV (apologies to Leaf owners). But with that said, the argument in favor of...

You're both right! Porsche does reserve capacity in the batteries, so it is safe to charge to 100%. Nothing will explode or catch on fire, you won't permanently lose a big chunk of your battery capacity, etc. But it is also true that frequently charging to 100% will very, very gradually reduce...

I had exactly this problem a few days ago. I turned off the car, got out, locked the doors, went inside the house, put the keys away, and stayed away for ~30 minutes. When I went back, everything was working again. A few days later, while backing out of the garage, suddenly the cameras and PDC...

There are a lot of places in the world where ICE is becoming a now-or-never thing. Such as New York, where OP is apparently from. Of course, the reality is that you will still be able to own an ICE in NY even after 2035, even a new one. It will just get increasingly inconvenient. So as...

Yes, it's present when the vehicle is "in gear." US regulation requires it to be on to 30km/h. It sounds like what you would expect the electric sport sound to be like at idle. I can't say for sure it's on up to 30km/h or off after that; I've only been in a position to hear it when my wife's...

Mine got better over the first couple hundred miles, but it's been pretty steady for a while now. When I am taking my son to school, I get 3.2 mi/kWh. When I am coming back from dropping him off at school, I get 2.6 mi/kWh. Sport Plus at highway speeds is fun but hard on efficiency. My range...

Limiting non-Tesla vehicles to 50kW at SCs and blaming it on the adapter is a very Elon thing to do. If his primary concern were actually to increase EV adoption -- and not to get government subsidies for Tesla -- he'd figure out a way to get 125-150kW, which would be enough to allow the vast...

Remember, though, that you don't need anything other than a Teslatap adapter to use those Tesla destination chargers with your Taycan. Outside of Tesla-land, I've never even seen a >50kW charger that wasn't EA. I'm sure they exist, but all I've seen is EA, 50kW, and, like, 5kW destination...

Most people who lease around here do it as a hedge against some future EV tech rendering the Taycan obsolete. My opinion is that the way the car market is right now, I don't think there are many new cars that will be worth less than 54% of MSRP in three years. That knocks out one of the biggest...