svp6
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New Road and Track review here. Some positives (high quality, good impression on the track), but overall the tone is critical on the Taycan Turbo S being "disappointingly inefficient" with the range being "178 miles less than the model S". This is very irritating - as it perpetuates the concept that model S and Taycan range in real world highway drive are exactly the same as EPA.
Having driven 3 different Tesla's so far, I could hit the rated range on the highway only under ideal conditions - outside temp around 80F, driving at ~75 mph. I was never able to exceed the rated range (no, I do not hypermile a Tesla). Most of the time highway driving means a 15-40% range cut, depending on outside temps. So for Tesla, I find the EPA range overly optimistic.
For the Taycan, there are multiple threads showing that the car actually exceeds the EPA range by a large margin on highway driving. Most infuriatingly, Car and Driver published a head-to-head comparison of the Taycan Turbo S and Model S performance on a 100 mile run (continuous driving at 75 mph on a 6.5 mile oval track) - and extrapolated that the real range advantage of the Model S was more like 10 miles.....
So why did not our trusted author read at least car magazine publications before writing absurd things up like "Tesla laughing this round—at the Porsche drivers walking 178 miles home"? For me, I guess I will have to walk - but perhaps only 10 miles in real world. It is worth it though given how beautiful the car is and how well it is made.
At the end of the day, this will definitely make it on may EV and petrolhead sites, discouraging people on even considering a Taycan. How annoying.
Having driven 3 different Tesla's so far, I could hit the rated range on the highway only under ideal conditions - outside temp around 80F, driving at ~75 mph. I was never able to exceed the rated range (no, I do not hypermile a Tesla). Most of the time highway driving means a 15-40% range cut, depending on outside temps. So for Tesla, I find the EPA range overly optimistic.
For the Taycan, there are multiple threads showing that the car actually exceeds the EPA range by a large margin on highway driving. Most infuriatingly, Car and Driver published a head-to-head comparison of the Taycan Turbo S and Model S performance on a 100 mile run (continuous driving at 75 mph on a 6.5 mile oval track) - and extrapolated that the real range advantage of the Model S was more like 10 miles.....
So why did not our trusted author read at least car magazine publications before writing absurd things up like "Tesla laughing this round—at the Porsche drivers walking 178 miles home"? For me, I guess I will have to walk - but perhaps only 10 miles in real world. It is worth it though given how beautiful the car is and how well it is made.
At the end of the day, this will definitely make it on may EV and petrolhead sites, discouraging people on even considering a Taycan. How annoying.
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