Perry
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My local Porsche center had an event today where I got to look at and testdrive the new MY25 Taycan. In true Porsche spirit, they didn't have any Turbo models available and the cars were actually quite surprisingly spartanly specced. There were however a few interesting things that I noticed, so I thought I'll just share it here.
1. Porsche has finally realised that the UX for managing desired charge level is pure insanity, so instead of messing around with profiles and timers and whatnot, you instead have a slider on the battery screen:
I didn't look into exactly how profiles and timers are affected by this change, but I assume they still exist in some way.
2. The main interface has changed a bit. The yellow colour is mostly gone and replaced with blue and they've added a few new views. You've probably seen the new battery info screen, but they've also added a new driver assist view in the center tube. The car only had some basic assist features specced, so I'm not sure exactly how this is affected if you spec InnoDrive and so on. It did however visualise the distance to the car ahead at different speeds much clearer than before. Another difference is that changing views is now done instantly when you scroll the scroll wheels rather than showing a menu where you select the view you want.
3. A funny thing with the interface, it seems like the infamous rendered white Taycan in the interface is now a Turbo model, at least in the 3D surround view:
4. The console lid has changed a bit. I would still not call it good, but it's different. It now springs open and gives quite some resistance when you try to close it. It doesn't open all the way, of course, but I believe it stays a bit more open than before.
5. I tried to play around with CarPlay a bit, but I spontaneously couldn't see any tangible changes.
6. The interface appears to be a bit smoother, but it's hard to tell. Route calculation with chargers was definitely a fair bit faster than my car.
7. Driving the thing was perhaps the biggest difference. I can't say anything about performance since I can't really compare a Turbo S with a 4S. Push to Pass is interesting. You get a pretty good kick in performance, the interface changes and the sports sound is piped through the internal speakers much louder.
8. The demo car had obviously been driven quite actively, with an average consumption of over 60 kwh/100km. I'm thinking that is the reason for relatively low range in the guess-o-meter (~400 km at 100%).
9. Doing some very unscientific scientific testing of my own, I tried to to do a few steady laps around a ~10 km long 100 km/h relatively empty road to kinda see how the efficiency performs vs my own car. It immediately became very apparent that efficiency has improved remarkably. Holding a very steady 100 km/h in normal mode, the efficiency never went over 20 kwh/100km and ended up at around 16 kwh/100km in total with 98 km/h average speed. In comparison, doing the exact same drive in the exact same conditions in my own car right after, ended up at 23 kwh/100km.
Obviously way too short drive to actually get some reliable numbers of the actual efficiency, but I think it at least shows the improvements in efficiency. The car I drove was a Cross Turismo 4s with 21 inch wheels, compared to my Cross Turismo Turbo S with 21 inch wheels.
10. Likely as part of new regulations, the car did nag a bit at me. There's now an optional speed limit ding, and a tiredness warning. I'm not entirely sure what the car was actually complaining about, but it did ding at me quite a few times which I'm still unsure what that was about. It also now throws up a message on the screen when you open the door after parking, reminding you to not forget your things. Thank you Porsche, my things are not forgotten.
11. Styling-wise, I think the standard Porsche looks better in real life than in the photos. Or it has just grown on me, I guess. I still mostly prefer the old design vs the new standard Taycan, but it's still a gorgeous car. It's very apparent that much of the new design comes from efficiency improvements, since they have pretty much filled every little nook and cranny in the new headlights, to make it much smoother compared to the old design. It sounds worse than it is, as someone overly familiar with the old design, it's noticeable when you look close at the details.
That was probably all the things I noticed. It was a pretty short visit and they didn't have any cars specced with the things I was mostly wondering about (Turbonite, ActiveRide, e.t.c), but it was cool to see the small changes anyway, I guess.
1. Porsche has finally realised that the UX for managing desired charge level is pure insanity, so instead of messing around with profiles and timers and whatnot, you instead have a slider on the battery screen:
I didn't look into exactly how profiles and timers are affected by this change, but I assume they still exist in some way.
2. The main interface has changed a bit. The yellow colour is mostly gone and replaced with blue and they've added a few new views. You've probably seen the new battery info screen, but they've also added a new driver assist view in the center tube. The car only had some basic assist features specced, so I'm not sure exactly how this is affected if you spec InnoDrive and so on. It did however visualise the distance to the car ahead at different speeds much clearer than before. Another difference is that changing views is now done instantly when you scroll the scroll wheels rather than showing a menu where you select the view you want.
3. A funny thing with the interface, it seems like the infamous rendered white Taycan in the interface is now a Turbo model, at least in the 3D surround view:
4. The console lid has changed a bit. I would still not call it good, but it's different. It now springs open and gives quite some resistance when you try to close it. It doesn't open all the way, of course, but I believe it stays a bit more open than before.
5. I tried to play around with CarPlay a bit, but I spontaneously couldn't see any tangible changes.
6. The interface appears to be a bit smoother, but it's hard to tell. Route calculation with chargers was definitely a fair bit faster than my car.
7. Driving the thing was perhaps the biggest difference. I can't say anything about performance since I can't really compare a Turbo S with a 4S. Push to Pass is interesting. You get a pretty good kick in performance, the interface changes and the sports sound is piped through the internal speakers much louder.
8. The demo car had obviously been driven quite actively, with an average consumption of over 60 kwh/100km. I'm thinking that is the reason for relatively low range in the guess-o-meter (~400 km at 100%).
9. Doing some very unscientific scientific testing of my own, I tried to to do a few steady laps around a ~10 km long 100 km/h relatively empty road to kinda see how the efficiency performs vs my own car. It immediately became very apparent that efficiency has improved remarkably. Holding a very steady 100 km/h in normal mode, the efficiency never went over 20 kwh/100km and ended up at around 16 kwh/100km in total with 98 km/h average speed. In comparison, doing the exact same drive in the exact same conditions in my own car right after, ended up at 23 kwh/100km.
Obviously way too short drive to actually get some reliable numbers of the actual efficiency, but I think it at least shows the improvements in efficiency. The car I drove was a Cross Turismo 4s with 21 inch wheels, compared to my Cross Turismo Turbo S with 21 inch wheels.
10. Likely as part of new regulations, the car did nag a bit at me. There's now an optional speed limit ding, and a tiredness warning. I'm not entirely sure what the car was actually complaining about, but it did ding at me quite a few times which I'm still unsure what that was about. It also now throws up a message on the screen when you open the door after parking, reminding you to not forget your things. Thank you Porsche, my things are not forgotten.
11. Styling-wise, I think the standard Porsche looks better in real life than in the photos. Or it has just grown on me, I guess. I still mostly prefer the old design vs the new standard Taycan, but it's still a gorgeous car. It's very apparent that much of the new design comes from efficiency improvements, since they have pretty much filled every little nook and cranny in the new headlights, to make it much smoother compared to the old design. It sounds worse than it is, as someone overly familiar with the old design, it's noticeable when you look close at the details.
That was probably all the things I noticed. It was a pretty short visit and they didn't have any cars specced with the things I was mostly wondering about (Turbonite, ActiveRide, e.t.c), but it was cool to see the small changes anyway, I guess.
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