This is not true in places where people tend to street park full time(ie a lot of Europe and dense cities in the US). There is a huge benefit of taking demand off of the MUCH more expensive to install and run L3 chargers by installing relatively inexpensive L2s in places where the cars will spend the majority of their…

This is clean, but really has nothing to do with why curbside charging isn’t widely available. It’s the ‘infra’ in infrastructure that is the hard part, getting the power to the posts, tearing up the ground to bury cabling everywhere, central power management to ensure power usage remains below what is available is.

Or buy a used P85D or P90D that is not only more practical (compare the trunk sizes, holy shit is the porsche’s trunk tiny), but will be faster, get more range, and cost 1/3 the price. Literally bought a P90DL (L=ludicrous mode which was optional in the P90D days) for $54k last year. Does about 250 miles on a full…

Other than the Regen others mentioned, the Porsche also uses a two speed transmission and it could be in the “real world” tests people put it into a steady state higher efficiency gear/mode, while in EPA cycles it is stuck in a less efficient gear

EPA is a standard metric - which we need. And the EPA doesn’t “state” anything - manufacturers calculate and report EPA range themselves, and the EPA spot tests for accuracy. Porsche’s narrative that “the EPA gave them bad numbers” is bullshit. Porsche’s engineers calculated those numbers themselves, but they’re…

It’s not that EPA tests are friendlier to Tesla vehicles than any other electric cars, it’s that Tesla, being the first serious manufacturer of EVs, have taken the time and effort to seriously optimize its vehicles and drivetrain for efficiency. Tesla has wrung a few percent more range out of its vehicles each year…

The Taycan is a much nicer car than the Model S as well. The Model 3 is a nicer car than the Model S tbh.

The EPA tests aren’t “friendly” to anyone - they’re standardized tests, and Tesla knows how to engineer to the test. Ditto for 0-60 times; the car world values that metric more than anothing else, so Tesla decided to make it a priority for their cars to do 0-60 well. (I mean, you wouldn’t accuse the physics of 0-60 of…

I wonder why they skipped the tests. It’s not credible to believe that Porsche didn’t have the resources to do the tests, so there must be some advantage that Porsche got from skipping them.

Its not perfectly clear, but the idea was they did 2 out of the 5 EPA tests and because of that their actual range is reduced to 70% of the tested range since they skipped the other 3 tests, which are cold and hot weather tests. Had they done them it would probably be only a 10-20% reduction instead of about 30%. It…

Much like the EPA’s MPGe ratings conveniently ignore the realities of how electricity actually gets made... or that electricity isn’t actually sold in “gallon” containers. Whatever.

A 2 door sports car is the direct competition for a big 4 door?

The topic is “sports cars”. Anybody who doesn’t drive his sports car on the back roads is just not doing it right.

Yeah, that totally sounds like something that the average car buyer has to worry about.

The roadster was certainly an enjoyable proof-of-concept where the Model S was a true product. Maybe that’s a more polite way to put it.

“I would have compared it to the mirror on my cruiser but it’s missing for some reason...”

The vehicle in question has the blind spot monitoring option which is what the clear square is on the mirror. So the vehicle was optioned with the ‘Plus Group’ package. For the SXT that included 20" granite crystal aluminum wheels, the GT 20" satin carbon painted wheels and for the R/T 20"x 8" satin carbon (not…

All the cars I have personally owned have been RWD or a RWD based 4WD. My wife owned a base Mini with an automatic for a few years and Ive shopped GTIs and Golf Rs - a short wheelbase FWD hot hatch is possibly the most fun you can have on public roads this side of a Miata.

I never thought I would own (lease) a Mini, much less a Countryman, but here we are. The JCW Tune Kit with the exhaust with flap, some fifteen52 wheels, and black trim. That said, I am turning it in next year for either the new GTI or a used M240i, manual of course. I would buy it, but a serious accident last year…

Up until recently, a Mini was my everyday car. So yes, the counterpoint between the tiny Mini and the hulking Charger in the garage was hilarious.