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? 270 is low for the Taycan, looking at my car. I’m regularly at 260 @ 85%. I hope there’s more than 10 miles in that last 15%… I’m not going to penalize Tesla anything right now because they’re just claims and not worth evaluating. (I do zero public charging, so it doesn’t affect me one way...

Actual miles or Tesla miles? ? I’ll assume you mean the Taycan and not the Tesla, what with their five exterior colors, two wheel choices, and two and half interiors (black, white…and other white). ?

In a complete vacuum, no, but relative to a lower voltage, to me, it seems, the upside would be lower current (and thus less heat) for the same power. I see peak charge rates for the Taycan and Tesla claimed as being “close”, but that doesn’t tell anything about the charge curve, where (last I...

Too fast for the track? What are you talking about? The roll cage thing? All that tells me is it’s not fit for purpose. And makes me wonder what else it isn’t fit for.

Yes. Last one especially. One time, years ago, we took a plant home and I drove carefully to not spill it and ever since, that’s all I hear about. “Jeremy, just drive like there’s a plant in the car.” ???

I can appreciate that’s true for you if you can appreciate it’s not for me. I have no need or desire for my car (even my DD) to do anything that resembles driving itself.

Hey! Those of us who occasionally drive their significant other’s Taycan are welcome here too! ?

I’ve been using the tire angle adjustment wheel locating in front of the instrument cluster for lane keeping. So far, so good. When I want audible feedback, I bring my wife.

I have a 14-year old turning 15 in a few months and he’ll be able to get his learner’s permit. Today I asked him whether he wanted to learn on a manual or an automatic. “Manual” My eyes lit up. ? “Really?” “Well, yeah. I don’t want a self-driving car.” ?‍♂️ So just an FYI, in 2021, manuals...

I’d say you’re going to end up end in a ditch, but the “self-driving” probably put you there first...?? Just kidding, they could probably cut power to the other motor before there’s a major problem. But I also didn’t really look too hard at what that looks like at 200mph...

I personally don’t understand the interest in overspeeding the motor so much. You lose torque, which is what you want for accel. I’d much rather stay closer to base speed and if that means a multi-speed gearbox, so be it.

I don’t think the gear change is affecting the power curve (other than making it flatten out sooner). It’s a least not affecting it in the way you think it is. It’s affecting the torque curve.

I guess you’ll need to explain this more. Constant HP above base speed is a general characteristic of electric motors. This is a typical torque/HP curve: Torque is constant up to base speed as HP rises, then HP is constant above base speed as torque drops off. There are various specialty...

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I’ll let Elon know he messed up his site. Maybe I can make a pull request.

Model S Plaid. Looks like a Model S to me. ?‍♂️

I’m re-posting an answer I wrote on Quora back in April. Original Link: https://www.quora.com/Which-car-would-you-choose-a-Porsche-Taycan-4S-or-a-Tesla-Model-S-Plaid/answer/Jeremy-Henson-12?ch=99&share=9d97b023&srid=i0Tpf Which car would you choose, a Porsche Taycan 4S or a Tesla Model S...

The 19.2kW charger benefits depend on your use case. I just had my first weekend with the car and I needed it, exactly how I thought I would. We did a bunch of running around in the morning, then we were home for an hour and a half before we went out for lunch, and then we were out running...

The PMC+ has a 14.76 foot vehicle cable and it can’t be changed. It’s the PMCC that has the shorter vehicle cable that can be changed to a 25 foot cable. Also, the 14-30 supply cable I referenced before is a whole separate supply cable, not an adapter. I agree that it’s expensive, but it’s...