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Porsche repairs are expensive in general. I would get a Porsche Platinum Extended Warranty before your current warranty expires. See this post for a competitive price, but also check your own dealer to get a price. Negotiate, negotiate, negotiate 😀

Kelly Blue Book for a 2022 Taycan 4s with 15,000 miles is somewhere between $63k and $66k depending on spec. I think you have some room to negotiate here. For example, offer $70k but ask that it include the 4 year Porsche Platinum extended warranty. The best part about negotiation is that you...

Meant to add that my 2021 4s has a CarScanner SoH of 87%. However, my estimated summer max range at 100% SoC is 242 miles, and when my 4s was new my estimated summer max range was 270 miles. The ratio implies a SoH closer to 89%. Either way, I’m at 37,000 miles with SoH ~87-89%, so you can...

Hey @RedKloud! I think you’ll love driving a Taycan, and agree with many of the recommendations above. Have the selling dealer verify the HV battery SOH. Also, have the dealer confirm that there is no under-body damage to the battery tray . Drive the car over rough roads and listen for...

When I stated that you need to use the phone app to start the session, I didn’t clarify that you’re using the app for the energy supplier you’ve chosen. In the case of Tesla supercharger network you are going to have to use the Tesla app. I believe the same thing is true for other charging...

We’re talking units of energy (kWh) not time. The stats for the 2020-2024 Taycan Performance Battery Plus (PB+) are: 83.7 kWh usable (93.4 kWh gross). On a road trip you are likely adding 50-70 kWH of energy to the battery at each charging stop, so your break even point is after the second stop.

When charging at a Tesla SC station using Plug&Charge, you pay a top rate, sometimes as high as $0.77/kWh. However, if you have a Tesla membership, and initiate the charge with your phone, you can get the same rate as Tesla drivers. Here are some details. Summary from Perplexity Tesla’s...

As I said, I would have gone with a financial accommodation (aka - refund the deviated stitching). I would not have returned the car. I also take a different view of the issues you mention above. While I agree that Porsche failed to design a solid PMCC (also, the cable repair took way too...

My approach utilizes the location dependent behavior of Profiles to allow for two different scenarios, and I don't enable or disable anything - the Timer and 2 Profiles are always ON. My goal is to help the local Puget Sound Energy (PSE) Utility out by doing almost all of my charging after...

I leased my 2021 4s in June of 2021, and in September of 2022 decided to buy-out the lease. Best car I've ever owned. No regrets 😀

I feel two completely different ways about this post. On the one hand I want to congratulate you on an outcome that is so clearly in your favor. Given your stated desires (i.e., 11 kW OBC or take the car back) it appears you got exactly the outcome you desired. Of course, the reason you could...

Didn't know that. Can you share any videos?

Conversation so far has been interesting, but no one has commented on the point of the Reuter’s article that says the Tesla employees who train FSD don’t trust it. I’m having trouble getting past that.

Yikes!! I see you pulled over to help. Was anyone hurt? Also, what did the driver say who caused the accident?

Perhaps the relevant question from this is whether we can ever get past the supervision question. I found these two paragraphs from the @Vercingetorix referenced article chilling. “What makes Krikorian’s account so compelling is that he’s not some random Tesla critic. He built self-driving...

https://electrek.co/2026/05/28/tesla-fsd-safety-stats-misleading-reuters-investigation/ Is Electrek reporting this Reuter’s investigation correctly? Personally I find the idea of an entirely camera-based self-driving system to be dangerous since weather conditions anffect its reliability...

Does anyone know why it is that EA stations can never deliver 350 KW even when charging a preconditioned battery at a low state of charge? I understand that sometimes if you have multiple vehicles charging, they have to share power, but in the instance above, that wasn’t a thing. I’ve had a...

On second reading, this sounds even more insightful to me. The idea that you could create a vehicle that is equally successful in every market doesn’t even make sense. By focusing on the needs and desires of buyers North America in Europe Audi & Porsche have the opportunity to focus and succeed...

Totally agree. In fact, I would love to know the price of the bottom car if it existed!!

Sorry, but I got swept up in the data and I forgot to make the key point I was trying to get to. The automotive game has changed fundamentally. A combination of government mandates and flat out better performance, reliability, and innovation, all at a competitive price point, make EV’s the cars...