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Toyota/Lexus has some EV concepts and some limited EV's in China, but are continually pushing back on electrifications. They used to back the hydrogen story, now just trying to delay EV's to give themselves time to catch up: Toyota CEO: Going All-EV Could Cost Japan Millions Of Jobs

Major brands are not dumping EV's in China. China has 3.5 times the population (market size) and a bunch of EV incentives including manufacturing incentives, consumer incentives, and speedy charging infrastructure buildout. They are also a lot more friendly to autonomy technologies, allowing...

I had a Samsung i730 with Windows Mobile when the first iPhone came out. Guess what, it actually did more than the first iPhone (for one, it had copy/paste functionality which the initial iPhone did not). I was working for Microsoft at the time. Believe it or not, Balmer was the one who...

Are you planning to try this experiment with your Taycan? Please post the video of what happens. ;)

What are you talking about? I've been saying from the very beginning that I cannot prove the causation here, simply pointing you to circumstantial evidence supporting, but not proving the theory, against your arguments that Mission E was unveiled in 2015 so Porsche must have been working on it...

Yep, how an EV feels was brand new territory to Porsche. Without Tesla they would have most likely continued to build ICE along with Toyota. Notice that Toyota still hasn't concluded based on their more extensive then Porsche experience and successful sales of hybrids, that they want to build...

But you must have known higher range was possible on a Tesla, yet still went with the Porsche, so range is not your top priority. There will always be use cases for high range, but those are not common. That means is that designing for those will be hard to justify financially, as not that...

Exactly. Realistic (worst case weather) 200 mile range should satisfy the majority of drivers today. Most people don't mind a 20-30m stop every 3 hours on long haul trips. I've driven my 265m EPA rated miles Tesla coast to coast and it was fine (ok, I could have used 15% more battery so I didn't...

Well, maybe there is a reason Porsche made the Taycan almost the same dimensions as the Model S? 8+ years with 4 Model S here, switching to Taycan CT Turbo (if Porsche can sell me one before I find a better alternative). I test drove the original Taycan but didn't love it's transmission shifts...

Well, the overall summary is Elon decided that in order to progress EV's, he needs to make an EV car that people desire and want to driver, not because it's electric, but because of the way that it drives and feels. He was right. All the previous EV's and hybrids made for great celebrity photo...

Ah, so your point was that OTA was inevitable for cars, I can agree with that. Electrification probably also inevitable at some point. BUT, somehow those inevitable things just came to Tesla first, and you know what, they did motivate the rest of the industry to get there quicker so they could...

Wait, so you're saying Porsche is ahead of Tesla as far as OTA, leading as opposed to following? So why are all those people on this forum reporting they have to wait to go to the dealer to update their software. Is your claim then that all these people just Porsche Tesla fanbuys spreading...

Tethered drag race mode? Drop the battery, hook up a quarter mile extension cable instead? Or perhaps special drag strips with overhead power sliders, like city trolleys. ?

Perhaps Taycans improved over time? When I test drove the Taycan 4S when it first came out, the shifting was violent and way to often, which made the the car feel very "jerky". I remember thinking even if they had a CT back then, I would have had to try hard to convince myself to buy it. When I...

There definitely are some Tesla fanboys out there, some hold stock too. There are also shorts out there, dissing Tesla. Unfortunately accusing people of being a Tesla short or Tesla fanboy sometimes becomes the universal tool to try to discredit someone's opinion, regardless whether positive or...

I agree with you, your solution works best for you. I was not trying to fit an EV as a solution to a problem for which it's not best suited. Different problems have different optimal solutions, based on set of requirements and restrictions. EV's are not a universal solution to all...

It would induce exactly nothing. See what happened to Elon's vision of $35K Model 3. They sold a few "off menu" and short of features to limit interest in it (so much for Elon's "well equipped Model 3 for $35K" vision), so they can say they did it, not available since. See what happened to...

I would say that it is really just two topics. To some, Tesla is a religion to some. I speak from experience having owned Teslas since 2013. Wanting to buy a Taycan is blasphemy to some people on Tesla forums I've been a part of for years. Kind of like saying anything positive about Tesla to...

Given all of your requirements and restriction, an ICE car, or possibly a diesel car with a retrofitted auxiliary fuel tank seems to be the best choice. Perhaps rail (trains) but that depends if you even have that option to where you want to go (if you have that option, it will save even more...

Wait, so what you're saying is that because this is a Taycan forum, you somehow assumed that you will find nothing but hate for Tesla here, but this didn't turn out to be the case? Does this upset you because it's inconsistent with the impression you got reading the internet, that everyone hates...