Taycan 4CR is baller in the snow!

[MoniqueDenver]

Greetings from Zion in Utah! On Friday, I drove my Taycan 4 Cross Turismo from Denver West. We were supposed to do the drive in two days and get to Zion, however, the weather had a different idea. I drove over Vail Mountain Pass (10,662 feet, 3,250 meters) in the middle of a white out blizzard. Snow had accumulated to 8 inches (20 cm), unplowed. The Taycan performed admirably. I never felt unsafe. My visibility was shockingly good considering the snow falling made it look like we were doing warp speed. Someone spun out right next to us, bouncing off the barrier and came back toward us, I accelerated so as not to get hit. The car lost traction, regained it immediately.

Then I took it over snow, a LOT of snow, while trying to get it to the snow covered charger here. No problems! (The Tesla got stuck, though.) This morning, I decided to risk going over what probably was 6-7" of snow with an initial 'lip' of snow about 10". She plowed through it like butter. You can see a silver SUV to the left of her (Highland, I think) with AWD. I drove that around, too. Didn't feel anywhere as comfortable driving that.

Only issue I had was the windshield froze quickly. I put it on Max defroster and it worked instantly, but the wipers were frozen. I had to pull over and take the ice off with a towel.

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[Flying ace]

Noice! What tires?

 

[MoniqueDenver]

Sorry, after I hit send, I realized I forgot that

Blizzack

I chose them over the Pirrelis because they're better in deep snow and ice. I'm a skiier so that's important.

Been trying to get them since December, but they've been delayed. Literally just got them on three days ago.

 

[KLHubb]

Did you use the lift mode to get over the snow?
I lift my car over snow banks.

 

[MoniqueDenver]

Absolutely.

 

[SewaneeAbides]

How was the battery or range impacted by those temps?

 

[MoniqueDenver]

So in Jan during the polar vortex when it was 5 degrees, I picked up the car in NJ and drove to Denver, Colorado. I was stopping every 150 miles to charge. I was increasing in altitude (5 days starting at sea level and going to up 5,280 feet) and highway speeds.

Now I'm getting almost 200 miles on each charge. Weather ranges from just below freezing to 50 degrees. I'm traveling about 1,000 miles this trip and range from highway speed to much lower. I'll be going up in altitude and down again: starting to 5,280 feet over an 10,000+ mountain pass down and up again, then back to 5,280.)

I'll report back on the trip thread.

 

[SewaneeAbides]

That's awesome. I expected to see less efficiency in the colder temperatures but sounds like that's not happening. Good to hear.

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