whitex
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I was driving a few days ago. As I was passing a truck in an exit lane, he suddenly got confused by the road signage and decided he needed to get over fast (he didn't, as both lanes exited, but the sign might have been interpreted as only one lane was exiting). In the process, he almost ran me off the road. The saving grace was my Taycan's ability to emergency accelerate from 60mph up. Coincidentally, there was some car parts debris one the side of the road at about the same time, so perhaps some other trucker got confused at the exact same sport but the car next to him was not as quick as my Taycan Turbo.
In situation like this, having overboost available for all trims whenever the accelerator pedal hits the floor, would be very beneficial in avoiding accidents like this. Don't get me wrong, I get why for racing purposes, to improve lap repeatability, you want to have something like push-to-pass or attack mode, as it allows you to choose when your 12 seconds of extra power are unleashed - always at the same spots of the lap, not having to worry about accidentally pushing the accelerator pedal too far and using it up in a less than optimal part of the track. However, for regular road driving, there should be an option to just lock the overboost to be always available whenever accelerator is pushed far enough. My wife's Audi eTron does this - you have to enable it by switching to Sport (vs. Drive), but it's there. It is also shown on the instrument cluster power gauge, so the driver can always see if it's available and for how long. All of our Teslas also did this, not even special drive mode required - even in Chill mode, if the accelerator hits the floor, the car would unleash full available power. So for Taycans, for regular road driving, it seems automatic overboost would be the safest option, so that in an emergency situation you get access to full power without having to think about pressing extra buttons. Has nobody at Porsche thought of it, or would that screw up their trim pricing?
PS> I know push-to-pass and attack-mode are only available on 2025 Taycans, 2024 and older have the overboost locked behind Launch Control mode, which is only useful for drag racing. Maybe is hasn't occurred to Porsche engineers that even temporary boost can be beneficial, even in racing, then they learned that others do it and benefit from it? Or perhaps Porsche was scared that overboost would wear the battery too much, so they locked it under a mode most customers rarely or never use, then after 4 years they learned it's not so damaging, so they added push-to-pass option to 2025 Taycans, but of course no retrofit for older ones (at least from the OEM).
In situation like this, having overboost available for all trims whenever the accelerator pedal hits the floor, would be very beneficial in avoiding accidents like this. Don't get me wrong, I get why for racing purposes, to improve lap repeatability, you want to have something like push-to-pass or attack mode, as it allows you to choose when your 12 seconds of extra power are unleashed - always at the same spots of the lap, not having to worry about accidentally pushing the accelerator pedal too far and using it up in a less than optimal part of the track. However, for regular road driving, there should be an option to just lock the overboost to be always available whenever accelerator is pushed far enough. My wife's Audi eTron does this - you have to enable it by switching to Sport (vs. Drive), but it's there. It is also shown on the instrument cluster power gauge, so the driver can always see if it's available and for how long. All of our Teslas also did this, not even special drive mode required - even in Chill mode, if the accelerator hits the floor, the car would unleash full available power. So for Taycans, for regular road driving, it seems automatic overboost would be the safest option, so that in an emergency situation you get access to full power without having to think about pressing extra buttons. Has nobody at Porsche thought of it, or would that screw up their trim pricing?
PS> I know push-to-pass and attack-mode are only available on 2025 Taycans, 2024 and older have the overboost locked behind Launch Control mode, which is only useful for drag racing. Maybe is hasn't occurred to Porsche engineers that even temporary boost can be beneficial, even in racing, then they learned that others do it and benefit from it? Or perhaps Porsche was scared that overboost would wear the battery too much, so they locked it under a mode most customers rarely or never use, then after 4 years they learned it's not so damaging, so they added push-to-pass option to 2025 Taycans, but of course no retrofit for older ones (at least from the OEM).
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