Sudden drop in power consumption

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Hi there,

I’m enjoying my new Taycan 4S of which I took delivery a week ago and thus far I’m stoked. It brings a smile to my face every time I go to my car in the morning and drive it.

what surprised me though was the sudden drop in power consumption from one day to the next. This is quite striking as my commute is thek same city, highway and then country road (almost equal split). Did you observe the same during the first weeks? And no, I didn’t drive more carefully… if anything, the opposite.

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Normal behavior, the car consumes more energy as it's breaking it. It's in the manual.
Congrats on the car!
 
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Weather will affect consumption (and stuff like heated/cooled seats, lights, etc.)
That’s the thing, weather was constant over the days with a tendency to be actually colder (0 degrees Celsius) and with that I actually had the seat heater on. The Porsche rep said something about the car needing to “learn over the first 3000km” . But I haven’t even passed the 500km yet. I’m fine with it in the sense, less powerusage means more range. But the sudden drop is odd, as the conditions worsened not improved. Let’s see how it develops. Can’t wait for my first long haul (500km one way)
 

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Your car probably started to deploy regen. When new it doesn’t regen - needs to break in the brakes; once that’s done regen kicks in fully and consumption drops. I have mine exactly a week and same thing happened
 


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Can also be different preconditioning of the battery over the days.
 
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a very likely reason is the bricked HV heater :)
If that would be the case, I would expect an error message, or at least cold interior and the inability to pre-condition the battery.
 

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you won't get an error message for sure!
but of course no cabin heating as well.
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