Covid-19 - are you cancelling?

[dryii]

Whats the consensus now that we are 3 months into Covid and seems like the worst has past?

Life is just about back to normal for me in FL. Picked up my vehicle 2 days ago and am enjoying it alot.

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[HK111]

Hello Christian,

that is very good to hear and gives me hope.

I wish we were as far. Soon we will know if the partial easing of the lockdown rules will be successful here, i.e. if it will allow some more social life and economic activity while not letting the disease beast from its chain. That would be a big success.

Cheers,
Henrik

Here in China it is old news. Virus is gone and life back to the way it was before. Just the export economy is reeling and the border is locked for foreigners. No international traveling for me, means more money I can spend on my new Taycan 4S+!

 

[TAYC4N]

I'm unclear why you believe the worst is past. With so many people up and about and mingling and whatnot, I'm predicting by the middle of June the numbers really start to spike again. And since this genie is out of the bottle, it's not likely going to go back in. Getting people out of their homes and into a restaurant (for example) is an economic decision, not a public health decision. My guess is (here in the U.S.) we double our numbers of dead and infected in the next 3 months. As I posted somewhere else: "This is the worst catastrophe in the history of the country. We have never before lost 100,000 people to a single cause in a three month period. Not during any natural disaster. Not during any previous disease epidemic. Not during the worst days of WWII, the Civil War, or any other war. We have not experienced death on this scale from any cause, ever in the history of our nation. And we are only just getting started."

I don't plan on cancelling, to answer your question directly. Circumstances may dictate I do, but until then, it's full steam ahead.

I was speaking from a UK perspective. We are certainly on the mend here. As for other parts of Europe everything seems positive too. I think good times will be here again in the not too distant future. Read some news today that said Covid-19 is pretty much non-existent in Italy now and 2 months ago they had the highest deaths in the EU. The virus seems to be dying down faster than they can test the vaccine on this side of the pond.

 

[Gogs]

I was speaking from a UK perspective. We are certainly on the mend here. As for other parts of Europe everything seems positive too. I think good times will be here again in the not too distant future. Read some news today that said Covid-19 is pretty much non-existent in Italy now and 2 months ago they had the highest deaths in the EU. The virus seems to be dying down faster than they can test the vaccine on this side of the pond.

I read this as well today. But officially the government is still very concerned. I’m not so sure this is going to be over quick. I hope it is, but I’m not convinced that we will have a fast recovery.

 

[TAYC4N]

I read this as well today. But officially the government is still very concerned. I’m not so sure this is going to be over quick. I hope it is, but I’m not convinced that we will have a fast recovery.

Gogs I am a medic. Work in the industry. The dilemma right now is that this is dying down so quick that there is not enough people to test the vaccine on! I say I hope it dies quick enough not to even need a vaccine.

What will take a time to recover is the economy. That is going to take a long long time.

 

[Gogs]

Gogs I am a medic. Work in the industry. The dilemma right now is that this is dying down so quick that there is not enough people to test the vaccine on! I say I hope it dies quick enough not to even need a vaccine.

What will take a time to recover is the economy. That is going to take a long long time.

I hope that continues then. Some good news at last...

 

[HK111]

Read some news today that said Covid-19 is pretty much non-existent in Italy now

Non existent, well. If you look at the last week in Italy, you'll get for the week of May 25th to including May 31st the data below (I am not counting June 1st, because it is still ongoing):

a) daily new infections
300
397
584
593
516
416
333
Average: 448

b) daily deaths
92
78
117
70
87
111
75
Average:
90

This is 5-10 times better than in March. In some heavily afflicted regions, such as Bergamo, this may actually reflect herd immunity (i.e. 60-70% or more of the total population have had it). You also see a lot of extra mortality in these regions. In other regions, it probably reflects more the vastly changed behaviour of the population, which reduced R0.

Of course, if we would be lucky and there would be other, "more magic", factors that would make the disease peter out, that would be nice. But which are they? And what would happen to the numbers if social behaviour would revert to 2019 style? The latter seems at least partially underway in Germany, and now we have an R0 > 1 again, the latest being 1.2. You don't want an 1.2 R0.

Cheers,
Henrik

 

[feye]

Hello Christian,

that is very good to hear and gives me hope.

I wish we were as far. Soon we will know if the partial easing of the lockdown rules will be successful here, i.e. if it will allow some more social life and economic activity while not letting the disease beast from its chain. That would be a big success.

Cheers,
Henrik

Hi Hendrik,

I hope as well, but giving that the German government still seems to listen to experts, which do not want to eradicate but rather than just control the virus, I cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel. Why damage the economy and society so much for so little gain?

Christian

 

[ron_b]

Related news story from Road Show

Porsche Chairman is 'optimistic' about post-COVID-19 Taycan sales
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/porsche-coronavirus-taycan/

...
Chairman of the Executive Board of Porsche AG Oliver Blume, who remains confident that Porsche will not only weather the current economic storms, but can come out stronger.

How? Basically, by staying the course and sticking with the basics. "The best thing is to have a fundamentally optimistic attitude," Blume said. "We think in chances. We stopped our production over six weeks. We ramped up last week once again,and production is running fairly well."
...

 

[dfh]

Went to go collect my car today, but on the way got a call telling me to turn around. Apparently, some technical issue with registering the OLEV grant means they cant register the vehicle until thats done. No ETA in sight unless I would like to pay £3500 more for the car, but actually for some reason I thought the Taycan may not qualify anyway - saw it on the invoice and was pleasantly surprised. Got so close twice now (deliver was previously scheduled for lockdown day in the UK), I guess a few more days wont hurt!

 

[Persuader]

Went to go collect my car today, but on the way got a call telling me to turn around. Apparently, some technical issue with registering the OLEV grant means they cant register the vehicle until thats done. No ETA in sight unless I would like to pay £3500 more for the car, but actually for some reason I thought the Taycan may not qualify anyway - saw it on the invoice and was pleasantly surprised. Got so close twice now (deliver was previously scheduled for lockdown day in the UK), I guess a few more days wont hurt!

I can assure you that the wait will be worth it. The car is unreal.

 

[dfh]

I can assure you that the wait will be worth it. The car is unreal.

I'm sure! I suspect its not about a wait now, but about £3500...Reading the details on the OLEV website it seems that unless the dealer registered for the grant before 12 March, the grant wont come through for any Porsche given they all retail for over £50k. has anyone else had this discussion confirmed one way or the other from a dealer in the UK?

 

[Gogs]

Went to go collect my car today, but on the way got a call telling me to turn around. Apparently, some technical issue with registering the OLEV grant means they cant register the vehicle until thats done. No ETA in sight unless I would like to pay £3500 more for the car, but actually for some reason I thought the Taycan may not qualify anyway - saw it on the invoice and was pleasantly surprised. Got so close twice now (deliver was previously scheduled for lockdown day in the UK), I guess a few more days wont hurt!

If the car was not registered as an order back in March/April then the dealer will miss out on the grant. There is no excuse acceptable for this, if this is the case.

 

[Lfcdan]

I'm sure! I suspect its not about a wait now, but about £3500...Reading the details on the OLEV website it seems that unless the dealer registered for the grant before 12 March, the grant wont come through for any Porsche given they all retail for over £50k. has anyone else had this discussion confirmed one way or the other from a dealer in the UK?

I have friends in the car industry and was made aware of the OLEV grant ending in the budget so I emailed my Porsche and Audi dealerships to make sure they registered mine prior to the budget

And made sure both confirmed in emails that they had done

If your dealer hasn’t done that then I believe They should contribute 3.5k towards the car!

I was looking at possibly changing from a Turbo to a Turbo S and the OLEV grant can’t be moved! It’s registered to you and that exact order number
So I stuck with my Turbo

 

[kevinod]

Yes most of the dealers registered the cars on the portal the night they decided to cancel the grant.

If your order was in pre the grant changing I’d be arguing the toss with the dealership

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