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I was talking about the US market. BYD is not sold in the US. US left wing media could not care less about BYD. They care about the unionized big three, who, despite all the subsidies could not manage to make money on EVs and story changed in almost 1 year. Anti-union and anti-dealership network...

Many brands sell Evs but If you look at who makes money out of them story is quite different. Tesla’s market share in “profitable EVs” would be more than 70-80%. #2 producer of EVs in the us, GM, losing a TON of money in each EV they deliver and could not be happier if EV trend went down the...

Update to my post after playing with the configurator abit. Turbo pricing seems REALLY attractive. Depending on how to configure the car price difference between base and Turbo drops to as low as $16K! this is unforseen in the porsche world. A ton of stuff is free on Turbo

This is very true. Up until release we kept thinking Macan EV to be the SUV equivalent of Taycan but the moment it came out I realized that perception was not accurate, as would be akin to thinking "Macan ICE is the SUV equivalent of 911". So they chose to clearly de-content Macan from technical...

Yes single speed and with the 2-speed transmission also gone is the acceleration linearity. Macan 4 has almost the same 0-100 acceleration with Taycan 4 CT but its 100-200 is 13.8 sec almost 40% slower than CT! No info on gear ratio yet but macan’s single gear is very likely shorter than...

Ok. That sounds healthy. Its a product forum with technical debates. You should not be worried about what any specific person thinks about you and personalize it. I’d be worried if i made a difference to you even before the first date ?

There is no mechanical engineer in the world, who, when presented to have the opportunity to have 2 gears instead of 1, would say "ah great I will keep my one gear exactly how it would be in a single gear set up and just add this second one as a shorter gear". That mechanical engineer does not...

This also from Porsche newsroom: There is no time limit qualification when it comes to max torque, but max horsepower is limited to 10 seconds. Again feels like you are talking in generic motor terms. If motor heat is your primary limitation like in many applications yes current would have to...

Again you seem to be talking in general motor terms. My understanding most EVs generate their stated published max horsepower at constant HP range. (I am talking about the max horsepower figure you see in the car's spec sheet not some theoretical motor max HP)

This is mentioned in their formal press release, which is considered a pretty serious disclosure document for a publicly traded company. They can't say anything that is not accurate or randomly bullshit. I worked for a major automaker for 10 years and I can assure you this language is coming...

May I ask what model year is your 4CT? I’ve done some digging on inconsistent brake feeling, that’s why i am asking thanks. @WasserGKuehlt

I know that RWD’s torque and hp curve goes to the other direction. The reason i gave that example at the first place was to demonstrate the fact that porsche was setting odd ceilings to the curve through torque management resulting in different models to have very different torque curves that...

You very well summarized my key points in two sentences ?? instead of 5 pages.

You are absolutely right about this acceleration curve. Proven many times by acceleration tests and dynos, there is nothing like Taycan out there in terms of acceleration linearity. I think the real answer is complicated. But is a function of both 800V AND the 2-speed set-up.

Rough math but speaking of the RWD Taycan, in a single gear set up a second gear in high 9s (~9.5-9.7X) would get the car to the same top speed of ~230kms/h. The car would obviously accelerate faster at low-mid-range speeds (until torque starts dropping) but would likely see a significant...

3 minutes ago New Add bookmark #31 The fact that it is similar to Tesla is makes it too long! Tesla is a 400V set up Taycan is 800V. To be clear I am not an electrical engineer but nerd enough to be dangerous. Everything I read indicates higher voltage gives the motors ability to deliver...

This company unlocks top speed for Taycan and ETron GS. You get 273/kms for 4s and 278/kms for Turbo&S. I am pretty sure their application does not involve anything mechanical like a gear ratio change. https://www.hgp-turbo.de/audi-e-tron-gt-rs.html It is also pretty clear from the power...

I don't think Taycan's perceived inefficiency based on test cycles has anything to do with suboptimal Drivetrain or "mechanical" losses. I think it is mainly about to do with performance oriented software tuning on many different areas (eg brake pads engaging for initial several miles of every...

I am not sure general electric motor dynamics (like constant HP) apply directly apply to Taycan given heavily regulated nature of the torque curve (which is not necessarily maxed out at any given rpm for different reasons). If you look at the dyno results of different models you see a lot of...

I am not disputing that. I also have a friend who got excited and got a 911 and ended up getting rid of it because she thought it is too difficult to live with (difficult ingress, egress, steep driveway etc etc). I know others who thought 911 is too uncomfortable after owning it for a while. My...