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What a fun rabbit hole this has been. Insurance authorized just over $1k in repairs and estimated $45 per labor hour for replacement. lol. Are you able to give me any more info on what Porsche requires for proper calibration? Hoping the local service center can better underline this as well.

Yep, edited the first post - I am in GA, US. Unfortunately GA doesn't mandate free windshield replacement from insurers like some other states but I do have comp - I will just be out my $1k deductible (plus ~$200 to re-tint the visor strip, ugh)

So I ate a large rock on the interstate on my first road trip in this car. Windshield crack is about the size of a half-dollar and has grown evvvveerrrr so slightly in the last 10 days. I initially attempted the SafeLite repair option with my insurer both as it was $0 and to immediately stop any...

Ima stop you right there.

My 360cam is fine as long as it doesn't just fail to initialize (has happened a few times). The backup camera took some getting used to and I still dislike it, though it gets the job done. I don't understand why it is so heavily fishbowled. Spotify integration is nice to have but the actual...

Taycan's UI is fine for me though the lag is annoying and frankly intolerable for a car at this pricepoint. The bugs I have experience with it so far are also pretty obnoxious. I think when people refer to the PCM it is less the UI and more the lack of specific features available in far lesser...

I'd entertain the 996-onward 911 vs Taycan style debate; not convincing me that a J1.1 OR 1.2 beats out much before that. The best looking car is MY car, though.

Yesterday my PCM wouldn't fully start up when turning the car on. Just stuck at 'PORSCHE'. The car drove fine, radio worked (though I could not access it on screen), but some functionality on the main dash like maps did not work. I power cycled the car a few times, rebooted the PCM in engineer...

Having done the Porsche Precision school at Barber's in Birmingham a week ago - we used the Panamera GTS for precision braking, taking the car to ~40MPH and slamming the brakes repeatedly on a very small course. The instructors said they used Taycans for this specific course until they shipped...

Dependability studies for EVs are often incorporating vehicles over the last ~15 years including the Nissan Leafs that did not include active cooling of the batteries. How data is represented matters, also - reliability studies often include all recalls, while straight up 'how often do these...

This seems more like a problem of viewing R&D and initial investment for production as a loss and not.... an investment. The production facilities didn't just evaporate. I understand that if adoption rates don't keep up with internal predictions that it will take longer to recoup investment and...

What is never built into these numbers, because it is difficult and cumbersome to do so, is the social cost of carbon, which we all pay whether we believe in it or want to, or not. LNG plants that are already online may be cheaper to operate day to day compared to a buildout of a new solar farm...

As a native Floridian, agree on all counts for Florida - there are arguments for wind-resistant solar farms to be a better approach to solar than distributive/rooftop in high-wind prone regions. The result to this approach, though, ends up being Duke Energy owning all the solar farms and...

Sure but even the choir can be off-key. It is a misunderstanding to believe that solar subsidies have in any way approached the level of subsidy the oil/gas industry has taken, let alone the tax loopholes/credits. They are several orders of magnitude apart.

Localized municipal-level public transport can happen pretty easily if it is supported politically - we already have versions of it in many cities. The oil and car manufacture lobby has done a great job suppressing support for public transport for many decades and the ghosts of that suppression...

PHEVs and EVs are a both bandaid on a larger problem - oil dependence coupled with fully individualized transport being preferred by a wide margin, with enormous lack of public transport worldwide but especially in most of the US. EVs are an appropriate bandaid. PHEVs are like taping a piece...

Re: oil subsidies, it goes well beyond a flat dollar amount per gallon. The US military is the largest single institutional consumer of oil products on the planet; sure is nice to have such an audience of one. Oil companies also receive highly favorable deals from the BLM for drilling lease...

This is a purely political issue, though. If we subsidized solar at the same rate we do oil extraction and refinement, private homes and public businesses alike would be covering their roofs in solar panels wherever possible. Instead, we have utility commissions and elected officials doing the...

I personally think it is very gimmicky and part of the reason I changed over both our cars to electric was the drivetrain 'feel', but I am totally fine with whatever gimmicks need to be implemented to get people out of gar/petrol cars and into electric ones.

I will not be satisfied until I have to crank-start my Taycan and see it give a little puff of steam out of a porthole on the front hood.