Technical changes with MY26

[mpaulus007]

Anyone has an overview of technical changes in MY2026. I am aware of:
- New PCM
- Connect now 10 years

Anything else? Battery, consumption, rear camera, external antenna, 22KW onboard charger, ….?

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[chun]

It’s not out yet, so nobody had a chance to look at one

PCM will likely be the one from the macan ev, running on android

 

[mpaulus007]

Agreed. Nevertheless, anything published or leaked?

 

[ct14garage]

PCM will likely be the one from the macan ev, running on android

This is confirmed - the PCM will indeed be the Android one same as Macan

 

[Dabz]

The PCM in the Macan is light years ahead of the Taycan so that’s good news

 

[Jasper4S]

Lets not be too happy with the new OS. I had a roadtrip two weeks ago with the MacanEV. Holy crap, the software was a peace of crap. It felt like Audi MMI with a skin. Really unclear UI. I’m one of the few that love PCM 6. It is simple and clear. It is a drivers car, so I don’t car about fart features like in a Tesla. The Macan had lot of weird bugs; navigation failed 3 times, adding up hours and hours without reason. It wanted me to take the exit at a gas station and merge back to the highway - because it thought that would be quicker. There was a blue bar over the map the whole time. No clue what that bar was, on the way back it was gone.

 

[chun]

Lets not be too happy with the new OS. I had a roadtrip two weeks ago with the MacanEV. Holy crap, the software was a peace of crap. It felt like Audi MMI with a skin. Really unclear UI.

I disagree. Much more responsive, organised similar to PCM 6, with settings split into setting trees similar as you would find on the current PCM.



In fact, most menus are direct copy+paste from taycan. So i find your review a bit disingenuous



Really, most differences are in performance, and backend, which allows it to be more capable, with access to android apps natively, and proper OTA and proper update infrastructure.

In terms of layout, it's basically identical to PCM6

 

[SergeyIndy]

Lets not be too happy with the new OS. I had a roadtrip two weeks ago with the MacanEV. Holy crap, the software was a peace of crap. It felt like Audi MMI with a skin. Really unclear UI. I’m one of the few that love PCM 6. It is simple and clear. It is a drivers car, so I don’t car about fart features like in a Tesla. The Macan had lot of weird bugs; navigation failed 3 times, adding up hours and hours without reason. It wanted me to take the exit at a gas station and merge back to the highway - because it thought that would be quicker. There was a blue bar over the map the whole time. No clue what that bar was, on the way back it was gone.

I agree that Macan EV is a bloated mess. Just drove one for a day again and absolutely hate it.
For those hwho like it so much, drive one first and then speak how better it is over our Taycan PCM.
For example, Map view has no speed limit. Assistance systems could not be adjusted when driving since they are in the PCM. PCM screen has large bezels making actual screen very small with tiny icons - give me a break. Some complain that they want physical controls, well Macan EV controls are not clear as they do not have color indications when something is On, it is all same white light color - unusable. I cannot imagine they will stuff this PCM piece of junk into Taycan and then add some of the same climate physical buttons.

Try it yourself, you have 3 tries: Is AC On? is it in Auto? is it in Sync mode?

 

[Wivenhoe]

I think you were expecting all controls to be as the dated Taycan system. The map isn’t cluttered with speed limit signs as they are available in the driver display and HUD if you wish, much easier to access than looking down at the PCM. I would deselect them if they were an option to show In the map.
The assistance systems are not all in the PCM e.g. lane control is a switch on the stalk. I have the speed warning as my ‘diamond’. Not sure which other ‘assistance systems’ you would want to turn off every journey.
The seat heating & cooling are lit blue and red with the level setting shown as either 1 up to 3.
The Auto Icon lights in bright white when on. A bright white light shows whether the aircon is On, Off or on Max.if You didn’t see that in the car then there must have been a fault.

 

[ze_shark]

PCM6 on J1.2 works very well in my view, both in terms of UI design and responsiveness. I am not sure how anyone would have an objective complaint about it.

 

[BjörnfromHamburg]

Not being too harsh on the Macan, because it is a totally different car to the Taycan, I yet also don't understand the hyping of the Macan PCM.
I had a loaner for a few days, making me look forward to stepping into my J1.1 again in any aspect (but entering and exiting ?).

The PCM irritated me also because of the huuuge bezel around it.
The haptic buttons did feel cheap, and any ray of sunlight and fingerprints made them unrecognizable.

The overall speed of the system was ok but not impressive in comparison.

 

[chun]

For people not familiar, PCM is a computer operating system. Not the bezels around the lower quality display porsche chose to save money, and not the cheap buttons porsche chose to save money. PCM strictly refers to the software.

the reality is that the new pcm, aka the software and not the plastic buttons, on the macan ev, is vastly superior to pcm 6 as it runs on android, a robust well developed and well supported 3rd party platform, with great compatibility, that allows updates without bricking the hardware

 

[SergeyIndy]

For people not familiar, PCM is a computer operating system. Not the bezels around the lower quality display porsche chose to save money, and not the cheap buttons porsche chose to save money. PCM strictly refers to the software.

the reality is that the new pcm, aka the software and not the plastic buttons, on the macan ev, is vastly superior to pcm 6 as it runs on android, a robust well developed and well supported 3rd party platform, with great compatibility, that allows updates without bricking the hardware

Respectfully could not disagree more. Yes PCM is software, but Macan EV screen is small and main icons are too small and too close - unusable as in hitting 2 at the same time, that is how close they are. Then while it is all Android, yes superior OS platform, but it looks and behaves like a bloated Android phone interface and has nothing on the clean Taycan PCM6 interface. Basically, a very bad Android tablet with useless backgrounds and terrible layout, like they gave up.

You keep saying how good it is, have you actually driven Macan EV and tried to use its PCM at scale, like a day worth of trips in town and several days on the road, I did, over 5 days and over 1k miles, and I hate it and cannot get used to it. I prefer Macan GTS PCM over it any day, which is again, clean, logical layout, and purpose built, which is what Porsche is known for.

 

[chun]

Respectfully could not disagree more. Yes PCM is software, but Macan EV screen is small and main icons are too small and too close - unusable as in hitting 2 at the same time, that is how close they are. Then while it is all Android, yes superior OS platform, but it looks and behaves like a bloated Android phone interface and has nothing on the clean Taycan PCM6 interface. Basically, a very bad Android tablet with useless backgrounds and terrible layout, like they gave up.

You keep saying how good it is, have you actually driven Macan EV and tried to use its PCM at scale, like a day worth of trips in town and several days on the road, I did, over 5 days and over 1k miles, and I hate it and cannot get used to it. I prefer Macan GTS PCM over it any day, which is again, clean, logical layout, and purpose built, which is what Porsche is known for.

Yes, I was one of the first people in Switzerland to drive a macan ev

you can disagree all you want; pcm is the operating system, and that’s it.

when people are talking about the pcm being better, they mean the operating system. Not the screen, not the screen size, not the buttons, nothing else

Again, menus are literarly copy pasted from pcm6. You can disagree all you want, there are videos for comparison, and they are identical in structure and layout.

You are entitled to you opinion, but objectively speaking the new PCM is at least a decade ahead of pcm 6

 

[ze_shark]

the reality is that the new pcm, aka the software and not the plastic buttons, on the macan ev, is vastly superior to pcm 6 as it runs on android, a robust well developed and well supported 3rd party platform, with great compatibility, that allows updates without bricking the hardware

You are mounting an argument on the theoretical advantage of an open OS which completely ignores the reality of the experience delivered by PCM6 on J1.2, or the reality of the experience as delivered on the Macan EV in its current implementation.

Which you can read for yourself:
https://www.macanevowners.com/forum/threads/pcm-blackout.20214/
https://www.macanevowners.com/forum/threads/a-good-thwack-rebooting-pcm-occasionally….21333/
https://www.macanevowners.com/forum/threads/is-xm-in-the-macan-ev-less-reliable.21297/

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