When the guy from Fully Charged did 30 0-60 runs to prove the capability of the Porsche they forgot to tell us that drained the whole battery!

Yes, and I think if it meets expectations it is going to be a real competitor the Model Y.. of course.. the infrastructure to support it is FAR behind the supercharger network..

A German car maker making an EV holding back on range to make it more reliable...COME ON, DUDE. You didn’t point out one major difference between the Taycan and other EVs....ONE PEDAL DRIVING. Porsche engineers thought that it would be more efficient, they would get more range, if they had “coast mode” instead of…

This. (And I’m no Tesla fanboy. They have their share of problems).

The “expert” who thinks Tesla’s drivetrains are more efficient because they don’t care about reliability is laughably full of Shiite. In the last few years Tesla’s motors and batteries have been quite solid. Unlike my Mercedes which had a transmission replaced at 20k miles, or my 2016 Cayenne, which had a replacement…

I thought this was an EV, why did they turbocharge it?

> Porsche would rather uphold a reliable reputation

I love car guys. Porsche came out guns blazing and claiming they made the best electric car ever. And when an outside test shows almost everything they have claimed is a lie, they have a million excuses and the process isn't fair.

“Porsche would rather uphold a reliable reputation than risk it pushing the Taycan’s mechanics to beat the Model S on power, range, and 0 to 60 mph times.” Its not as if Tesla’s have proven deeply unreliable. Porsches have had their share of issues like any other automaker.  I really question if Jalopnik can be a fair…

Right, Tesla had plenty of problems with their drive units early on, but the issues have since been solved (and there was no direct connect between the reliability and efficiency either, the issue had to do with the design of the unit, not that a more reliable unit would have necessarily been more inefficient).

Sorry Justin, I’m not buying this part:

The least reliable car on the UK market is an EV, with a single transmission ratio.

Essentially, traditional manufacturers have customers that are less likely to accept drive unit failures, battery replacements and quality concerns that Tesla early adopters often write off as a small price to pay for a car from the future.

So it’s quite possible that if Porsche had chosen the five-cycle test instead of the two, it would have earned closer to its estimated 280 miles range?

Nearly a decade and still no real competitor to the Model S.. at any price given how expensive this car is in the top-trim...

Another issue is that they outsourced the battery tech instead of making their own, that according to Sandy Munro is what accounts for the gap with Tesla

So which testing method do Teslas employ? What about the Kia Soul EV, which has a 20% greater EPA range than the Taycan at 20% of the cost?

And you get both here, painting Tesla as recklessly pushing the limits when their cars have better range and the established car manufactures playing it safe to put a reliable car out there implying that Teslas have suffered numerous recalls. While there were some drive unit problems with early Model Ses. There…

Yep, Tesla and everyone else have to go through these exact same EPA tests, so unless they are cheating the tests (and Porsche’s corporate family is the one with experience there), it should be pretty much and apples to apples comparison.

It is amazing how many articles there are on Jalopnik that exist just to bash Tesla, but with the porsche you go out of your way to defend it.