j.w.s
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As we all know, the Taycan uses mechanical brakes only (no regen) when new, and then starts to add-in regen braking when it decides that it wants to - the hypothesis being that it forces mechanical braking until the brakes are good and "bedded in". This happens - according to other posts - within a few hundred to a few thousand miles.
My Taycan GTS with PSCB brakes started out with no regen braking, as expected, and with brake feel that I can only call "bloody awful" - vague, strange, weak, and unpredictable. In the first two days of ownership I did a few 60-0 hard stops to bed in the brakes, like we were all taught to do, and after that the brake feel was dramatically better. Then, over the course of about two hundred miles, the brake feel slowly got even better, until I started to think of it as "these are really really good brakes".
Then, yesterday, magically, at somewhere around 400 miles on the odometer, I started to get regen on braking. I haven't done enough "spirited" driving to say for sure, but so far the regen and mechanical braking feel very well integrated. No issues.
As a side note, I have almost no dust on the white mission-e wheels and white calipers after 400 miles of mostly mechanical braking, whereas my Jaguar would turn its silver 20" wheels gray after a single Sunday fun run. Nice.
FYI: I filed this under the batteries and charging topic since regen is all about recharging the batteries using brake energy. Apologies if this was the wrong place for the thread.
My Taycan GTS with PSCB brakes started out with no regen braking, as expected, and with brake feel that I can only call "bloody awful" - vague, strange, weak, and unpredictable. In the first two days of ownership I did a few 60-0 hard stops to bed in the brakes, like we were all taught to do, and after that the brake feel was dramatically better. Then, over the course of about two hundred miles, the brake feel slowly got even better, until I started to think of it as "these are really really good brakes".
Then, yesterday, magically, at somewhere around 400 miles on the odometer, I started to get regen on braking. I haven't done enough "spirited" driving to say for sure, but so far the regen and mechanical braking feel very well integrated. No issues.
As a side note, I have almost no dust on the white mission-e wheels and white calipers after 400 miles of mostly mechanical braking, whereas my Jaguar would turn its silver 20" wheels gray after a single Sunday fun run. Nice.
FYI: I filed this under the batteries and charging topic since regen is all about recharging the batteries using brake energy. Apologies if this was the wrong place for the thread.
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