New Porsche Taycan first drive: real-world range test (Autocar)

[Fleer]

Who knows what colors will be around when we order next, but if we were ordering today, we’d probably get Provence. It’s my wife’s DD, so she picks (I was showing her the other day and she liked it), but I’d like it too; I like colors on cars. Better than black/gray/silver/white.

Some kids were walking by our house as I was pulling in yesterday and I heard one of them exclaim to the others “That’s the house with the blue, green, and red Porsches!”

And which color is the house?

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[Jhenson29]

And which color is the house?

House is boring. Brownish-Gray? I don’t even know.

 

[Fleer]

House is boring. Brownish-Gray? I don’t even know.

Then those cars bring the colors ?

 

[DCYL725]

Huh. Didn't realize I was a lady now. Thanks for letting me know!

Marketed towards the ladies.

They are not traditional masculine colors.

I like the frozen berry color too and can see myself in one.

 

[dstepin92]

I wish the standard Porsche yellow was available for the Taycan. I wsnted to make a bubble bee (Pikachu as my wife puts it) car, including the interior matching sets much like a Cayman/Carrera modification options, but the Taycan didn't really have them. Guess I'll just have to save for a Cayman or w.e else comes next.

 

[RGBArgee]

200 if you’re lucky - I’ve just charged mine in my garage and got 179 full 100% charge! It’s been round about that all winter! The car itself is fab but the range lets it down badly! Like you though, I’ve got used to it.

Performance Battery?

 

[Rona]

Performance Battery?

Unfortunately no.

 

[W1NGE]

Who ever thought that blancmange would be a good colour to offer and to have??

At least there is a very nice green to choose from now albeit at a ludicrous price!

 

[RGBArgee]

Unfortunately no.

That might explain it. Mine is a CT4S running on 21s and 93kwh performance battery but still poor really. Porsche don’t seem to care. Shocking customer service.

 

[Avantgarde]

That might explain it. Mine is a CT4S running on 21s and 93kwh performance battery but still poor really. Porsche don’t seem to care. Shocking customer service.

As clever as the naming convention Porsche came up with batteries (performance battery and performance battery plus) - Funny to watch the endless confusion and how majority of the people use performance battery to refer to the bigger battery, when it is the official name for the smaller battery.

 

[RGBArgee]

As clever as the naming convention Porsche came up with batteries (performance battery and performance battery plus) - Funny to watch the endless confusion and how majority of the people use performance battery to refer to the bigger battery, when it is the official name for the smaller battery.

Mine is the 93 and yes guilty as charged!

 

[Redhot2474]

200 if you’re lucky - I’ve just charged mine in my garage and got 179 full 100% charge! It’s been round about that all winter! The car itself is fab but the range lets it down badly! Like you though, I’ve got used to it.

Performance plus battery?

 

[tonyyang0420]

200 if you’re lucky - I’ve just charged mine in my garage and got 179 full 100% charge! It’s been round about that all winter! The car itself is fab but the range lets it down badly! Like you though, I’ve got used to it.

I'm at the same range as you buy at 76% charged, small battery, granted in California so the winters arent really winter.

my range always increases after long highway trips, when I first got the car 2 month ago full charge is at around 200 miles, and after a 120miles highway trip it was increased to around 220 and just did another one of those and now increased to about 235miles.

I personally don't care about those number as I know by now my miles per kwh, usually city drives I net somewhere 35 - 50kwh per 100 miles and 28 - 30kwh per 100 miles for highway drives. so I know that the most I can get out of the car on highway is prob somewhere between 240 - 250 miles and don't really care when it's city drives.

 

[irrelevant]

I'm at the same range as you buy at 76% charged, small battery, granted in California so the winters arent really winter.

my range always increases after long highway trips, when I first got the car 2 month ago full charge is at around 200 miles, and after a 120miles highway trip it was increased to around 220 and just did another one of those and now increased to about 235miles.

I personally don't care about those number as I know by now my miles per kwh, usually city drives I net somewhere 40kwh - 50 kwh per 100 miles and 28 - 30 kwh per 100 miles for highway drives. so I know that the most I can get out of the car on highway is prob somewhere between 240 - 250 miles and don't really care when it's city drives.

38* F outside today, and our Turbo is showing pretty much the same expected range at an equivalent state of charge.

 

[W1NGE]

Performance plus battery?

It must be given the car is a GTS.

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