Settings for Road Trips (other than default Range Mode)?

[f1eng]

Brave man to critique one's wife ??!

She has never had an accident but none of the family like to be her passenger!

She knows full well what we all think but she also knows everybody else is wrong.

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[BigBob]

She has never had an accident but none of the family like to be her passenger!

She knows full well what we all think but she also knows everybody else is wrong.

I guess hers is the Prius then....

 

[McgR]

Brave man to critique one's wife ??!

I presume Mrs f1eng is not reading this forum.

 

[Daniel]

Of course the cruise mode is to be preferred and I use it as much as possible, as with my previous Macans.
The update should further improve its efficiency .
Living in the mountains, regen is an important characteristic.
When i need to slow , i first press regen button and immediately the brake pedal.
Normally, under 0.4 G, the brake pads do not touch the discs .
Automatic systems are less efficient than human ability, which is why the benefit of automatic (or permanent) recovery is weaker, as said before, and autonomy too.
Just my two cents

 

[B61]

I’m driving/coasting in Normal, with chasis on lowest position (on known roads).
AC ECO except July and August…and that’s what I found suits me best.

 

[WuffvonTrips]

Yes, i get the bit about coasting being better that slowing down and speeding back up again etc.

I just would have thought the purpose of the auto regen would be to maximise the period you coast and minimise the times you slow down too much and then blip the throttle again to remain in the flow of traffic. Basically being a bit better than a human and increasing range as a consequence. Otherwise, it just seems totally pointless. I guess, maybe it is.

I suppose it depends on personal preference- it makes the behaviour more like an ICE and in so doing reduces the use of the brake pedal. Personally, while I enjoy maximum acceleration, I rarely enjoy maximum (or near-maximum) braking, so the regen feels like it suits my preference for spirited but not frantic driving.
On a separate point- from a Taycan-specific battery energy point of view, I wonder how harder & shorter braking compares with gentler & longer (and its most extreme case, the auto-regen braking).

 

[TDinDC]

She has never had an accident but none of the family like to be her passenger!

She knows full well what we all think but she also knows everybody else is wrong.

Mine too!! My wife is a good driver while on the way. Her Achilles heal is parking: she loves to curb the Rims up real well. I thought that the auto parking technologies would save me, but she prefers to do the damage manually as much as so many Porsche faithful refuse to admit that manual transmissions are less efficient!

Back to a more serious point, the Porsche online manuals are dreadful. They make it sound like Porsche Intelligent Range Manager “PIRM” only functions correctly when in Range mode, but they don’t provide details. Can I safely assume that PIRM functions the same in Range and Normal mode?

 

[TDinDC]

Of course the cruise mode is to be preferred and I use it as much as possible, as with my previous Macans.
The update should further improve its efficiency .
Living in the mountains, regen is an important characteristic.
When i need to slow , i first press regen button and immediately the brake pedal.
Normally, under 0.4 G, the brake pads do not touch the discs .
Automatic systems are less efficient than human ability, which is why the benefit of automatic (or permanent) recovery is weaker, as said before, and autonomy too.
Just my two cents

I view this a little differently. For a road trip, I think the most efficient method would be to leave regen off while on the road/highway/interstate/autobahn, and then perhaps turn it on when you enter a town or take a break. It’s too much work to remember to manually turn regen on before braking, and hopefully there should not be too much braking where regen would make much of a difference on the highway (and you probably don’t need the distraction of button punching while braking)!

 

[McgR]

Mine too!! My wife is a good driver while on the way. Her Achilles heal is parking: she loves to curb the Rims up real well. I thought that the auto parking technologies would save me, but she prefers to do the damage manually as much as so many Porsche faithful refuse to admit that manual transmissions are less efficient!

Back to a more serious point, the Porsche online manuals are dreadful. They make it sound like Porsche Intelligent Range Manager “PIRM” only functions correctly when in Range mode, but they don’t provide details. Can I safely assume that PIRM functions the same in Range and Normal mode?

On my trip the difference between normal and range mode was 15 minutes faster in range mode for the same distance. Only difference was that in normal mode I would arrive home with 60% SoC and in range with 10% and the last last charge was … 15 minutes longer in normal mode.

 

[McgR]

I view this a little differently. For a road trip, I think the most efficient method would be to leave regen off while on the road/highway/interstate/autobahn, and then perhaps turn it on when you enter a town or take a break. It’s too much work to remember to manually turn regen on before braking, and hopefully there should not be too much braking where regen would make much of a difference on the highway (and you probably don’t need the distraction of button punching while braking)!

What I understand from the Dutch manual that it only works in range. In normale mode it searches for faster alternatives and once selected will go to range mode.

 

[TDinDC]

On my trip the difference between normal and range mode was 15 minutes faster in range mode for the same distance. Only difference was that in normal mode I would arrive home with 60% SoC and in range with 10% and the last last charge was … 15 minutes longer in normal mode.

Did you perhaps swap out the modes in your description? That would make sense.

 

[TDinDC]

What I understand from the Dutch manual that it only works in range. In normale mode it searches for faster alternatives and once selected will go to range mode.

Why wouldn’t PIRM operate the same for all modes? I still don’t get what it really does.

 

[McgR]

Why wouldn’t PIRM operate the same for all modes? I still don’t get what it really does.

What it definitely does: it adds 320 euro to the price of the car.

For the rest you are correct I don’t understand either why it wouldn’t function in normal mode.

 

[McgR]

Did you perhaps swap out the modes in your description? That would make sense.

No I didn’t.

With range mode it would arrive home with 10 SoC in normal mode 60. The only difference was that in normal mode it would let met charge to 90% on the last charger and in range mode to 40% and the time diffenrence was just 15 minutes less charging. The drop in SoC in the last part of the trip was 30% in both modes.

 

[Daniel]

I view this a little differently. For a road trip, I think the most efficient method would be to leave regen off while on the road/highway/interstate/autobahn, and then perhaps turn it on when you enter a town or take a break. It’s too much work to remember to manually turn regen on before braking, and hopefully there should not be too much braking where regen would make much of a difference on the highway (and you probably don’t need the distraction of button punching while braking)!

My view is not so different ,at high and continue speed regen is almost zero ; concerning town driving the first level of regen is restful

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