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I’ve been held “mechanically” hostage a couple of times: the plug light went white, but the plug would not unlock/release. Never been software-locked, it is likely your new onboard charger (its management sw, more precisely). Take it back, and make them demo on their L3 charger?

Hypothetically speaking, of course, if I were to do this upgrade, I would augment the car’s existing badge with a plus: “Taycan 4+”.

I thought it was just a silly thing to do, and as a shortcut/differentiator. My 996 is “Elf” (short for (neun)elfer), because i find it tedious and pretentious to say “911”. The Taycan is “Tayferl” (Teufel -> Teiferl for some tirolerisch color), but usually goes by “the wagon” for the same reason.

(Wading in) while I agree that purely mechanical systems have to contend with “wear”, i still find it disingenuous to compare the number of moving parts as the sole indicator of reliability or longevity. On the electric side, capacitors explode, soldering fails, repeated heating/cooling causes...

Heidi is the correct answer and, by my count, got the most votes here. Good luck with your trip, and it’s totally fine if you take the time of the trip back to discover the car’s personality, and hence a suitable name. (So long as it’s Heidi.)

I picked up my 4CT on all seasons in Denver, and drove it home to WA through several passes and a couple of snowstorms. It was a bit dicey one early morning just North of Salt Lake because of ice, but otherwise the car was surefooted through all kinds of snow. I drive regularly to the WA...

(In Genie voice) “Phenomenal yellow brake calipers! Itty-bitty tiny brake pads.” Ffs, the “brembo” sticker is almost bigger than the pads.

The point still stands 🙂 - any PnC capable EV would just need Tesla’s authorization to charge. The car is a client, doesn’t really know who it’s talking to. (I guess, in principle, the car could validate the station’s cert against a list of well-known authorities, which would require a firmware...

well, someone has to counter the fact-free allegations of other posts, for instance this one: 😜 Look, David, we’ve been over this so many times: it’s not all about EVs, nor is it about “software”. I watched the SavageGeese interview with Rawlinson - your remark that “no one speaks like this at...

Blending into Fall.

I still think you’re nitpicking 🙂. Give the guy a break, he’s been a Master Gold Tech for 40 years. I’d allow him to work on my car, irrespective of what he says on a shooting-the-breeze podcast.

Used to be a standard thing in Europe for wagons, to prevent luggage (or other things) in the trunk from landing on the front seats. 🤷🏻‍♂️ It was an option back in ‘22 at least, I didn’t get it. (My dog gets the trunk and half of the rear seats, so I’d have had to cut a hole in the net.)

https://www.taycanforum.com/forum/threads/rear-cargo-partition-for-taycan-cross-and-sport-turismo-models-250-00.15217/

Did you actually pay for service? Or you meant that Porsche paid the dealer for the recall work? If the latter, i fully agree - had my Taycan in 3-4 times for recalls, and they provided a loaner every time. Hasn’t cost me a dime. Don’t ask about my ICE cars - it’s only bearable because I don’t...

Sorry to interrupt, did the Taycan GT have the Weissach Pack? If not, then Porsche has another chance.

No, he said Porsche gathers OTA telemetry about battery health (the differences in voltage exceeding ”a tenth of a Volt” in his words) to identify those they need to bring in, and then realized 15,000 batteries would qualify. This actually makes a lot of sense in the light of the newer ARB...

@007 lemme ‘splain it: up to the top model, more is more. But after a while, more is base, and so you add an ‘S’ version, to reignite more being more. Finally, you add a GT version, where less is more. Weissach Pack is more less for more more. Finally, the last few bits that can be removed...

The difference in distance was spent drifting. Yeah, that’s it.

Recommended watching: jump to about 20min in for how they work with PAG, how PCNA often has no idea; 22:50 in for the segment on Taycan batteries.

BMW had it right, apparently. I’m not pulling an about-face on EVs, but it’s good to know one can dream of a GT4 in the future. And keep working on synthetic fuels.