Not your fault, Jalopnik is for some reason being misleading about this.
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You need to stop now. You’re embarrassing yourselves with this ridiculous fawning and excuse making. I love the Taycan but at that price point 200 mile range is unacceptable and you know it. They have had YEARS to beat Tesla and they aren’t even close on range and barely(Maybe not for long) beat them on performance.…
Where’s the whole rant about over promising and under delivering? I could swear I've seen that before around here...
Saying Teslas are sacrificing reliability for range is kind of weird. The data shows battery depletion is hardly an issue, even at high mileage. So yeah, maybe the Porches battery will still hold 97% of it’s charge at 200,000 miles, but if the Tesla is still holding 90%, who cares?
Lol. I love the verbal backflips you’re jumping though to explain this rather than just admit they missed the mark. They had almost 8 years to study, refine, and learn from Tesla and other EVs and they missed the mark. Even at twice the price, its questionable if the Porsche is better - and that means its a fail. It…
But that’s partially because Porsche is not willing to make the trade-off between range and reliability that Tesla is, as contributor Mack Hogan has explained.
Agree. I’d imagine if you lay down $180k for a car, you’d not expect someone who owned a cheaper and older car to make wise-cracks about your specs.
Yes, it is fine... for a car that doesn’t cost six figures.
Lol.. for the price it is absolutely not fine
When Tesla screws up: Jalopnik goes out of its way to remind people how bad of a misstep it is. Repeatedly.
Very big.
The only problem with this is that for EVs, range is a performance stat - as important as any other. And every Porsche enthusiast is going to want their EV to outperform the competition when they pull into the local EV car show. What wont do is having some smug Tesla owner talking about how his car not only goes as…
Its fine for day to day sure. The problem would be if you want to flog it around a track like Porsche says its for. You’d be lucky to get to the track flog it for more than 10 minutes and still be able to get to a nearby offsite charger. Your best bet is finding a track with RV plugs to charge level 2 onsite.
So how big was the check from Porsche?
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..
“2. The MPGe figure is also shockingly bad. If the range were explained by Porsche being pessimistic, this does not explain the poor MPGe figure.”
Sorry Justin, I’m not buying this part:
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.
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...