Trading in the Cayman next Friday. I’m gonna miss that car. We’re going to be down to a single vehicle when this one arrives.
Thanks GBR…with the vehicle purchase we get three free years of rapid charging (from 0 to 80% in twenty minutes or so) at Electrify America…we have one about five miles from home. We have a regular free charging station in Lauderdale by the Sea about 100 yards from home…we’re still hoping the condo association installs a charging station in our garage…that would be ideal. Porsche also has an App that you can plot your trip with charging stations in mind. Have a great Sunday!
Good morning. Once you get to about 80%…the fast charging slows down fairly dramatically at the 20 minute mark…and at least at Electrify America….they don’t want people waiting for the entire charge. With a regular AC charger, the type you see at Whole Foods, etc….you can leave it on for a few hours if you choose to. Also, with regenerative charging (during braking), the vehicle self charges a bit as well. As for distance, Porsche isn’t where Tesla is…yet. For the 2022s, it looks like 250-300 miles per full charge with a standard battery system…we didn’t opt for the larger battery. This will be our local driver….if we took a road trip out of state…we’d probably rent a car, but we’ll see how quickly charging stations expand in the next year or two….lots to learn about this…
Thanks….I’m pre trading in my White Cayman Friday…you may have seen (or heard) that one running around El Mar or Commercial. I hope you are enjoying your time in LBTS….big Christmas Tree Lighting tonight….fun event. We won‘t be taking delivery until late March or early April. See ya around 101!
Understood….I’m retired and the Mrs. will start working from home again next week, so we’re going to be able to make it with one car….and perhaps a golf cart down the road.
Eric,
I have a gas one now. Waiting for the hybrid to come out to trade in. They have a X5 hybrid but I like the X6 a little better.
I found this about just using a home plug to charge one:
Heard something interesting during our purchase….next generation Macans and Caymans will be entirely electric. Porsche is getting ahead of what will be a required fairly high percentage of all manufactured vehicles being entirely electric in the not too distant future. This way, they will still be able to manufacture a small percentage of 911s with combustible fuel engines. Sounds like there will also be electric 911s….”the times they are a changin”.
I think Hybrids will dominate first before entirely electric….this was attractive because we’re getting the sales tax break on two vehicles we’re trading in towards the new vehicle, plus we get a nice 2022 $7500 income tax credit with the purchase of the EV. Not a deduction, a flat credit….so that’s another $7500 off the sticker. Not paying these dumb premium fuel costs will certainly be worth the aggravation of chasing down a charge now and then. Gary….you’ll get something great….gas, hybrid or EV….Sounds like my future cars have already been manufactured or will be in the very near future.
Good morning…we’re asking about a solution but condos are a different animal….it needs to be a communal need, and available to all. I would actually pay to have a wall mounted charger installed with our own meter, but they aren’t approving those at this time.
Sounds like you need to infiltrate the condo association board and work some magic
the beating that VW took due to their diesel scandal i can understand why they might want to transition all of their regular and luxury brands to electric as quickly as possible.
They all have government range ratings. Not sure if they drive them around in FL to get those mile ranges tho.
it's actually better. extreme heat and cold are a kick in the nuts for range. summer in FL may hurt range a bit but otherwise this state is great for max range from EV's.
It's too bad that company couldn't make it. Those were great looking cars.
Thank you….I doubt I’ll have it at higher than 80-85% most of the time. We don’t drive very much…and from the research I’ve done….particularly at Direct Charge facilities, the last 15-20% to get to “full” takes way too long. The 20 minute quick charge at Electrify America to go from 5% to 80% is fine with me. We also have a free AC charging a hundred yards from where we live…again, thanks for your response.
Mike…is the Leaf a single pedal vehicle? Taycan…like the Teslas, has an accelerator and a brake pedal. The Taycan allows you to turn off regenerative braking….leaving no sense of slowing down upon letting off the accelerator. If it is single pedal, did that take some getting used to?
Mine is not, but that is an option for the second generation models that started in 2018. You can drive single pedal if you put it in that mode, but otherwise it's dual pedal. I did drive a friend's with single pedal and it was a bit odd.
