FlyingPoint
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- Cobblestone
- Joined
- Feb 20, 2022
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- Taycan RWD, GT3
Either Mt Snow or Stratton, I suspect. Had a home in Stratton for 20 years, alas those were the days….Same here -- alas.
I ran a somewhat interesting yet unintentional driving experiment the past three days:
As much as I had loved driving the A6ar when I bought it in Aug '22, the i4 drives even better, and then the Taycan somehow improves even further on that (okay, perhaps not a great mystery, since that's the point of any Porsche!), even with speed limits (plus some enforcement tolerance of course) of 65mph interstate and 50mph secondary highways.
- Audi A6 Allroad for ~362-mile roundtrip (for skiing of course), both b/c the VT DCFC infrastructure seems intended to deter out-of-state CCS1 travel, and b/c I was carpooling with a friend who would have been even more upset than me (as well as, upset with me) at waiting to charge -- and for extra bonus points, the parking lot he chose to carpool from in southern VT had 16 Tesla Superchargers, as compared to the ≥150kW CCS1 count for the entire state of ... based on PlugShare checkins of the few that claim that speed (while ignoring what seems to be a recent mistake of counting all shared 62.5kW ChargePoint chargers as 200kW?!?) and that actually get into the triple digits ... exactly zero.
- BMW i4 M50 for ~180-mile roundtrip, of which I drove half (for a family visit), for which we could have used the Taycan, but my wife was driving the other half, and she prefers using her [smaller] car.
- Taycan 4CT for ~175-mile roundtrip (for more skiing of course).
Even just driving around town, and in parking lots, I think the RAS makes it so maneuverable.
But the additional driving pleasure just isn't worth the long wait for the potential unavailability of a plug at a typical station of just one or two chargers followed by the certainty of a long sub-100kW charging session.
Taycan is so perfect though when staying within its range, or being able to count on L2 charging, whether either overnight or when parked at a ski resort.
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