Uknown
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- First Name
- Sam
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- Taycan 4S MY20
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Took a trip to China and Japan with my kids to celebrate a HS graduation and start of college. Stumbled onto some EV fun.
NIO is totally cool, I may have cried a little when I watched a normal car owner swap a battery in less than 4 minutes… and it didn’t cost them $50k!! It was less exciting than a car wash, and that I think is an amazing thing engineering wise.
Inside finish of NIO suv was very nice on par with premium interiors, more gimmicks but all standard. Sounds systems are massively better.
Every new car I saw was fitted by default to be a robo taxi without a retrofitted hat.
Also happened to walk by a Xiaomi storefront
Took a few pictures. Sat in the Su7.
Fit and finish feels like a significant step down from the Taycan. Amazing for price point, but I don’t think it will hold up to daily driver mode well. Door feel wasn’t as nice, but at the price point it delivers i expect. And it is very nice looking car too.
The other highlights:
- Physical buttons are nice, infotainment software felt overwhelming to me but as expected light years ahead of Porsche. The mix of physical and digital felt right in the Su7
- interior cabin feel was more functional overall / roomier feeling.
It is like walking into a Porsche + Best Buy combo store which was about as jarring as Long John Silver/Taco Bell combo.
You can tell a ton of money is being spent in the EV industry, possibly without a focus on profit
. Pretty cool vibe over all, if I were a US or German car manufacturer I would be terrified.
Still prefer my gen 1.1 Taycan. I also still think no manufacturer has nailed the infotainment/cluster balance yet. So much potential and so little understanding by the industry it seems. After observing the minimal approach with Porsche, and the deeply integrated into your whole life with Xiaomi … I oddly prefer the Taycans lackluster setup which still mostly lets me focus on driving and enjoying the car.
NIO is totally cool, I may have cried a little when I watched a normal car owner swap a battery in less than 4 minutes… and it didn’t cost them $50k!! It was less exciting than a car wash, and that I think is an amazing thing engineering wise.
Inside finish of NIO suv was very nice on par with premium interiors, more gimmicks but all standard. Sounds systems are massively better.
Every new car I saw was fitted by default to be a robo taxi without a retrofitted hat.
Also happened to walk by a Xiaomi storefront
Took a few pictures. Sat in the Su7.
Fit and finish feels like a significant step down from the Taycan. Amazing for price point, but I don’t think it will hold up to daily driver mode well. Door feel wasn’t as nice, but at the price point it delivers i expect. And it is very nice looking car too.
The other highlights:
- Physical buttons are nice, infotainment software felt overwhelming to me but as expected light years ahead of Porsche. The mix of physical and digital felt right in the Su7
- interior cabin feel was more functional overall / roomier feeling.
It is like walking into a Porsche + Best Buy combo store which was about as jarring as Long John Silver/Taco Bell combo.
You can tell a ton of money is being spent in the EV industry, possibly without a focus on profit
. Pretty cool vibe over all, if I were a US or German car manufacturer I would be terrified.Still prefer my gen 1.1 Taycan
. I also still think no manufacturer has nailed the infotainment/cluster balance yet. So much potential and so little understanding by the industry it seems. After observing the minimal approach with Porsche, and the deeply integrated into your whole life with Xiaomi … I oddly prefer the Taycans lackluster setup which still mostly lets me focus on driving and enjoying the car.
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