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Agreed. The Chinese are ready and willing to start eating all the Euro makers lunch here. The current product suite might not suit everyone's taste, but folks should be under no illusions they are making massive strides in product development. They are already world leaders in battery tech...

We've got a 72-plate Zoe in the family. Its Continental*-based EV bits are OK, but definitely have quirks especially on the charging front. It's particularly French = fussy as fudge. ? * the OEM rather than the land-mass The R5 will be a lot more Renault in the motor/drives etc area. A very...

Maybe wait a year or so for them to iron out all the undocumented features. It’s Renault after all ?

I’m shocked. ? ….they claim to be coming to Europe. The smaller ones might fit in our parking bays and multi stories. Just ??

He is a giant phallus.

Might be a different atmosphere in the USA when it comes to EVs - that is Elon/Tesla = EVs. Elsewhere in the world, this inherent connection is not baked in. There’s a lot of derision and circumspection with Elon but I don’t believe that’s necessarily a brush that tars all other EVs. I...

No worries. We’re in agreement and good that Porsche have kept DC in the same place for both LHD/RHD markets in the Macan. Saves costs and better at Tesla sites ?

Me? I’m in the UK - so we’re RHD and in the Taycan I would have preferred the DC port to be in the same place as US-bound or continental European LHD cars - purely for the convenience factor at Tesla SuCs. Even at V4 sites it would be better as the port position is better. In a continental / US...

All the better for us in RHD-land actually. ?

Seems it will be the same basically. Just the port in the rear quarter rather than front

In that case they’ll probably “hand” it to suit RHD and LHD vehicles, like they do with the Taycan.

Anyone know if both charge ports on the Macan can handle AC+DC or if they’ve just gone the Taycan route with DC on one side only? I remember seeing spy shots of the test mules at IONITY and looked like they could hand DC on either port, based orientation etc

Looks like they've got another couple of mules out testing recently. Similar plates.

Never dunked ours! Must be luck or driver skill ?

It’s really not going well for VW Group at the moment.

I think its been mentioned another thread but they are looking to lay of a third of the workforce. So clearly the knife is being wielded big time.

Got an R order. Locked the spec. in last month. Wont be here until 'sometime in Q1' though. Before its said, definitely not a replacement for the Taycan, but for our long term Tesla Model X, which I sold a couple of weeks ago.

I dare you to go on SpeakEV and voice that opinion. ?

They are indeed. SAIC under the auspices of MG and Geely variously under the badges of Volvo, Polestar and now Lotus. Some tasty BEVs coming out from the latter. Then we get into the other pure play Chinese marques like BYD, Nio, Zeekr and Xpeng

To be fair the "passenger" has quite a bit of ring experience, both driving and passenger-ing ?