ron_b
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I had watched several Alex on Autos reviews from TFLcars when it first came out. He he has an excellent one on charging. He took the car to 1% when Porsche asked him to come back at 5%. He then charged to 100% when Porsche asked him to stop at 80%. Not that I think it's a good idea to do this often, but it shows the limits.
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I did pass this info to A Better Route Planner app development folks as well.
From the video I extracted the approximate charging steps and did a little rounding and guesstimation on efficiency to get the ~22.5min 5 to 80%. I think it's pretty accurate. The car is amazing in terms of bottom-end and top-end charging, Still doing 50kw to 80-96% and 20kw to 100%. I have watched dozens if T* videos where people are trying to get optimal range in a single charge and they can wait over 1hr to go from 90-100. It's never fast but the Taycan makes it look plausible. Note that this more than 80% charging is needed due to lack of charging infrastructure. Going on long road trips and wanting to focus on high speed Electrify America chargers may take you ~200mi between stops. Daily use I would only charge to ~80% on Level 2 chargers.
Note I also feel the EPA range is way conservative. I have a 2018 Chevy Bolt EV and though it has an EPA of 238 which I can easily over achieve in City driving, Highway is more like 200 if its not too cold. I watched a video from Calvin Kim when driving the Turbo to NY from Niagara Falls, he was able to get ~250mi per leg in Range mode and probably light AC. But that's the only way you would get near the max range. (see https://www.taycanforum.com/threads...at-270kw-using-electrify-america-charger.581/ )
I do hope to drive more spiritedly at times, but then I would plan ~150mi range.
Video:
I did pass this info to A Better Route Planner app development folks as well.
From the video I extracted the approximate charging steps and did a little rounding and guesstimation on efficiency to get the ~22.5min 5 to 80%. I think it's pretty accurate. The car is amazing in terms of bottom-end and top-end charging, Still doing 50kw to 80-96% and 20kw to 100%. I have watched dozens if T* videos where people are trying to get optimal range in a single charge and they can wait over 1hr to go from 90-100. It's never fast but the Taycan makes it look plausible. Note that this more than 80% charging is needed due to lack of charging infrastructure. Going on long road trips and wanting to focus on high speed Electrify America chargers may take you ~200mi between stops. Daily use I would only charge to ~80% on Level 2 chargers.
Note I also feel the EPA range is way conservative. I have a 2018 Chevy Bolt EV and though it has an EPA of 238 which I can easily over achieve in City driving, Highway is more like 200 if its not too cold. I watched a video from Calvin Kim when driving the Turbo to NY from Niagara Falls, he was able to get ~250mi per leg in Range mode and probably light AC. But that's the only way you would get near the max range. (see https://www.taycanforum.com/threads...at-270kw-using-electrify-america-charger.581/ )
I do hope to drive more spiritedly at times, but then I would plan ~150mi range.
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