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I may have been watching too many car videos on YouTube in recent weeks, because today this one popped up unasked. In short, they've got a Taycan with a burned-out inverter, then things escalate. I couldn't refuse a chance to watch someone take apart the rear motor assembly. It's just...

9 weeks after Porsche managed to restore connectivity between my Taycan and their servers, a process which took 2 months and included 2.5 weeks in the obligatory Macan loaner while the car was actually in the shop, all connections have failed again. In my case, just as before, the car still...

This summer, I replaced the 4 all-season tires my Taycan was wearing from the factory with Folgers Cryst--err, Goodyear Eagle summer tires. The old tires only had about 7K miles on them (I don't have their exact milage, because I didn't keep track of when I switched to winter tires, but 7K is...

This past weekend I had a couple of chances to charge the Taycan at a new Mercedes High-Speed Charger. Specifically, the one that just opened in South Windsor CT, just off i84. MB is using Alpitronics 400KW chargers, and this was my first time charging from one of those. I thought I'd write a...

This past weekend we took the Taycan down to West Virginia for a wedding, and as this was my longest road trip in the EV so far I thought I'd write up some notes on it, since I've enjoyed everyone else's trip reports on this forum. Our first charging stop on this trip was at an EVGo outside a...

My MY25 Taycan started having intermittent problems with the charging port door on the passenger side 2 days after I brought it home from the dealer. This typically showed up as the door closing only halfway after unplugging the charging cable, then staying half open. I could cause it to recycle...

This might be old news and I just missed it, but it definitely wasn't true the last time I was poking around in the video app on the center screen. Yesterday a notification appeared that a new version of the video app was available - 9.2.2. After installing it, you can do this: Confirmed that...