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re PHEV DCFC, the new Mercedes GLE 450e has that. Otherwise, not a PHEV feature except for a few relatively obscure models.

I looked into the Korean triplets during the EV search for my wife. Except for the typically overstated range (exact opposite of Taycan!), all three of them sound great. Of the three, I looked most seriously at the GV60, since it's more of a compact car-like crossover than the other two, so I...

And apologies I’m advance if I’m getting that wrong. My impression was that PHEV models are more prevalent in the UK so perhaps that explains any mistake I’m making from reading US forums on some PHEV models. But my takeaway was that some PHEV AWD systems are not capable of providing, say, a...

The initial consensus seems to be that the i5 is a bit more luxury and a bit less performance than the i4. So although the i5 size and weight are closer to the Taycan, in other ways the i4 is closer to the Taycan.

Perhaps I’m misunderstanding how some of these PHEV AWD systems work…but on some equivalent forums, I found a consensus (albeit amidst lots of confusion!) that certain systems reverted to two-wheel drive depending on the battery status.

Who, me, a spreadsheet for a car purchase? [insert relevant emoji here] In all seriousness, the PHEV offerings were so slim that I never came up with a tightly focused spreadsheet. Although if you don’t want to fuss with the Volvo give-me-AWD-now! button, then definitely a system like BMW that...

Drove my wife's i4 M50 yesterday afternoon, then my CT this morning. (Not quite apples-to-apples for power, since I have only a 4CT, whereas I think a 4S would be comparable to the M50, which I bought only b/c that was the only i4 AWD option earlier this year.) Agreed with your overall...

I was looking into this previously for my wife -- compact sedan, not SUV, but still some commonalities. A few important criteria: EV range, an obvious criterion, but as you will soon see from your research, some PHEV have just enough range for short grocery trips, and not much else. ICE-only...

Agreed that the EPA test needs to be overhauled. But I have to see any indications that Tesla has been dishonest in following the EPA testing protocols.

Tesla does not cheat on the test, but instead Tesla essentially studies for the test. And the test questions are published in advance by EPA. The fact that Tesla models come nowhere near their EPA ratings on highway roadtrips is not a factor in the EPA ratings. The full passage alas provides no...

In the U.S., the charging architecture rarely makes a difference, at least in the Northeast, where, out of 16 CCS1 DCFC stops, the only time we came even close to the charging curve on either our i4 M50 or 4CT was when the BMW nav directed my wife to what it thought was Electrify America but...

In that case, definitely the Taycan!

I'm not sure if this is of any value to your decision-making, but with that caveat aside ... I put on the first ~3,000 miles on what is now my wife's 2023 i4 M50, and I've driven it occasionally since then. I liked this experience of a high-end German non-SUV EV so much that I bought a used...

Using those criteria as a checklist re 4CT vs Model S: Worse range, yes, although the real problem isn't the range, but rather the CCS1 DCFC network, so I'm keeping a third car for our household (Audi A6 Allroad) until that happy day arrives (let me dream, please?) for universal CCS1 access to...

I'd forgotten about the lack of stalks. Such an obvious cost-cutting move under the guise of a more "sleek" interior. Can you imagine if some inexpensive ICE lacked stalks? Or an instrument cluster? Still though, a ~$76k Model S is a good value in many other ways. And now the Model X just...

Ditto re my wife! But she said no way was she interested in test driving any other cars since she loved her Subaru Impreza. So one day I said goodbye as I left on a ~50-mile bike ride. Yet then drove back with the BMW i4 M50 I had ordered three months earlier without telling her. She was...

Been awhile since I read a reference to comparative advantage -- and sure didn't expect to see it here. But I do like the application, well done! Agreed that PID seems to be kind of half-baked. Maybe I'll try it via FoD just out of curiosity. My used 4CT has the tech package, so iirc that...

I wonder if I'm in the Taycan minority for being the exact opposite?

I thought that any vehicle -- EV or ICE -- is pretty much automatically given a salvage title after flooding?

Other way around here for my "progressive" bubble of a stereotypical New England college town: I even got EV license plates solely so that everyone can know that despite appearing like a typical middle-aged self-absorbed jerk driving a Porsche, I am actually ... SAVING THE PLANET! (Okay, plus...