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That makes it a "greener car", eh? ;)

The big question is what car will you go to next? Once you know, google problems on that car. Ironically by that time Taycans are likely to have many problems solved too, so don't forget to compare the state of each car at the time you are switching. That said, I am by no means trying to tell...

I don't think people are saying they love or recommend the corporate lack of communication, dealer incompetency and other such issues. However, the problem is those issues are with every brand today. Personally I think it's a combination of significant increase in car complexity over a...

I am in a similar situation, my car a little behind yours (expected production date moved from November to January). I had a similar thought when I read the OP's post, but then my pragmatic brain kicked in. Let's look at it realistically. Every car brand and model has its problems. There are no...

Perhaps in some cases it was just used as an excuse to cancel. Anyone who put a deposit down before Taycan (not Mission E concept) specs were announced was just reserving a place in line in case they wanted the new model at the time it comes out. Lots of time passed between the Mission E debut...

Model 3 was Tesla's 3rd car (4th if you count the Roadster), so they had plenty of time for teething problems. You are also correct that they ironed out a bunch of Model 3 stuff in the US (e.g. bumpers falling off during the rain, windows and charge ports freezing up, etc). I was referring to...

All new tech has teething problems. Tesla has had many problems, but they were the new kid on the block and during times where there was no shortages of cars, so they had to earn it, and they did, with stellar service. Once the model 3's came our such service was no longer sustainable, but they...

Are you sure it's not a rattle coming from the underside of the lower touch screen in the console, as I've seen reported here somewhere that it goes away after some driving in the morning (sorry I cannot find the post).

Yes, if you need/want 20KW at home. Some people get the 20KW charger for out of the house usage, at home they might not care if it’s only 11KW.

Touché.

There exist valid reasons for making EVSE not accept all cars. For example: If you have a condo reserved parking spot at which you install an EVSE, you might want to not allow other cars to charge for free (whether parking in your spot or adjacent spots). Again for Tesla Wall Chargers there...

Actually that is a logical fallacy. Just because EV vehicles need to accept charge from any EVSE following the standard, does not meat that every EVSE must accept any vehicle which follows the standard. Tesla allows you to lock your wall charger to Tesla only vehicles, perhaps even specific VINs...

It's probably worth noting that computer simulations are getting better and better too. Fluid dynamics simulations today are significantly more powerful than even 5-10 years ago, as processing power is still scaling up at a pretty good pace (we continue to build more and more powerful...

Well, if what you're saying is true, all of the old carmakers will start making commercial vehicles only in 2035 when a lot of nations plan to ban ICE passenger cars. That could be a reason why Lucid, RIvian, Tesla, and others will thrive - competition simply bowing out. Of course, you could be...

Racing surfaces are more uniform and predictable. Road cars face many different surfaces, often deteriorated with holes and pits which more than likely affect air flow above them. That said, I don't know specifically what Mercedes is doing, but they seem to be making good progress in aero of...

Why not put the car in the wind tunnel on a giant treadmill? The difference between the speed of the wind and the treadmill would be the "simulated wind conditions". You could even face the car with the treadmill backwards to simulate tail wind conditions ;)

Tesla grew from nothing to more than 10x market cap of VW group, and over 4x the market cap of the next biggest competitor (Toyota) in a decade and half. Maybe the less ideal ways of raising money were all that was available to them at the time, but it also seems that it actually worked. So...

Tesla raised money to finance new factories. Plenty of healthy companies raise money for expansion, and Tesla is expanding faster than any other auto manufacturer ever did. I am not stating Tesla or Lucid are financially healthy or not, I am simply saying the fact that a company raises money...

Companies raise money all the time - it doesn't imply anything negative. Tesla raised $5bn barely a year ago and they are an older, profitable EV maker with orders of magnitude more volume than Lucid. Now, making a headline grouping Lucid and Nikola together, now that's some first class FUD...

We'd probably be in about the same place. Tesla volume ramp is much quicker than Porsche so they would have bypassed the Taycan by now. Tesla delivery times are many months, if not years shorter than Taycan today. Tesla would not have learned much from Porsche since Elon suffers from "not...