Wikipedia says 1200 lbs for the model S. Rich Rebuilds who rebuilds Teslas claims 1300 lbs. He’s had a couple shipped. The weight will be dependent on the battery capacity and how heavily it’s armored up to resist impact damage. Remember in the early Tesla years they had problems with road debris poking holes in the…

literally 0 research

Correct. Why bother with actual research on the subject matter, though? There are other people’s YouTube videos to share!!!

The problems start almost immediately. For instance, the Taycan is almost one thousand pounds heavier than its competition—and more than some pickup trucks.

Nothing until it can tow 10,000 lbs 500 miles per day in normal use. So far towing still isn’t really possible with any EV either in production or even yet proposed that I’m aware of. I neither own nor want a $100k luxury land yacht truck, but if your goal is to tow heavy stuff long distances - it’s not impossible to…

I wonder what electrification is going to do to the 4-door, long-bed, 22-inch dually, King Ranch, coal-rolling excess that is the modern pickup. Especially when Ford says an electric F-150 is already good for a million pounds. 

Does the world really need two A35s, two CLA35s, as well as a GLA35 and GLB35? Two hatchbacks, two small sedans, and two small suvs.. let alone the various 45 and 45 S models of the same cars.

So, I can buy a “new” Dart or for the same money buy a lightly used one of these

What I see is that the number of people capable of modding their cars shrinks as the tech improves. During the 80's/90s any kid with some tools could mod a car. Even to doing engine swaps. With EV’s you’d need a pretty decent skillset to do things safely and end up with something that works.

“This is all particularly exciting for me, as this year I purchased a Nissan Leaf motor to swap into the front end of my Boxster to create an AWD over-the-road hybrid.”

I looked it up myself....it has a 19.8 gallon battery and still doesn’t go as far as a Model S Long Range.  

Interesting how you pointed out a lot of cool performance stats, but you left out the most important detail:

The GTS really is the sweet spot. All the good performance options, minus torque vectoring, and healthy bump in power, for a discount.

how is it the range topper when the turbo base costs more and has more power? 

The difference is that you can charge up at night. A 300 mile range* means you have to stop at a gas station every so often. Weekly? Less frequently? Depends on usage.

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?

For 2013, that was a lot of range. The 2013 Model S 60 is EPA 208 miles.

You don't think every track will be installing chargers in the near future? Gas cars don't exactly run for hours on a tank on the track either

As someone with a 2013 60kwh Model S, whose range is ~170 miles, I encounter some sort of need to hit a charger about twice a year. If my range was 300 miles, as the newer models are, that number drops to zero. The difference between zero and two isn’t great, but it’s hugely mitigated by the availability of…

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.