Porsche Taycan breaks the Guinness World Records for coast-to-coast charging
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Porsche Taycan breaks the Guinness World Records for coast-to-coast charging
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Re: Porsche Taycan breaks the Guinness World Records for coast-to-coast charging
#2"Taycan spends a total of less than 2.5 hours charging on a cross-country drive, the shortest charging time to cross the United States in an electric vehicle – the benchmark being 7 hours, 10 minutes, and 1 second"
What did he do, drive 25MPH average?
It is just advertising for Electrify America (owned by VW, like Porsche), and a worthless Record without telling how long they took to drive the whole distance.
A Tesla Model S crossed the country in 42 hours and 17 minutes.
Re: Porsche Taycan breaks the Guinness World Records for coast-to-coast charging
#3"Taycan spends a total of less than 2.5 hours charging on a cross-country drive, the shortest charging time to cross the United States in an electric vehicle – the benchmark being 7 hours, 10 minutes, and 1 second" What did he do, drive 25MPH average? It is just advertising for Electrify America (owned by VW, like Porsche), and a worthless Record without telling how long they took to drive the whole distance. A Tesla…
Peak efficiency is at about 40-50mph, at least for Teslas:
https://forum.abetterrouteplanner.com/uploads/monthly_2018_1...
Re: Porsche Taycan breaks the Guinness World Records for coast-to-coast charging
#4On the Taycan forum [0] a few people were working the math out and figured out a theoretical 2:30 charge route. It requires 55MPH cruise and a few other things, but doesn't seem that out of the realm of possibility for a manufacturer backed PR stunt.
[0]: https://www.taycanforum.com/forum/threads/taycan-cross-count...
Re: Porsche Taycan breaks the Guinness World Records for coast-to-coast charging
#5About a year ago, the EA chargers were a crapshoot as to whether the rate negotiation with the vehicle would work. Looks like they either solved that problem, or had technical support from EA to ensure they wouldn't be delayed on their trip.
Re: Porsche Taycan breaks the Guinness World Records for coast-to-coast charging
#6About a year ago, the EA chargers were a crapshoot as to whether the rate negotiation with the vehicle would work. Looks like they either solved that problem, or had technical support from EA to ensure they wouldn't be delayed on their trip. https://youtu.be/lR41-IS9HTU?t=2590
The latter is more likely than the former, and I’d suspect reconnaissance to add to that support.
We’ve driven the west-coast corridor a bunch and contemplated several getting a different brand EV to go with our Tesla. Often seen/watched/checked-on-ABRP the EA sites down to just one or two working CCS chargers e.g. at Woodbury, OR. It put us off this year at least.
Re: Porsche Taycan breaks the Guinness World Records for coast-to-coast charging
#7"Taycan spends a total of less than 2.5 hours charging on a cross-country drive, the shortest charging time to cross the United States in an electric vehicle – the benchmark being 7 hours, 10 minutes, and 1 second" What did he do, drive 25MPH average? It is just advertising for Electrify America (owned by VW, like Porsche), and a worthless Record without telling how long they took to drive the whole distance. A Tesla…
In electric cars, there shouldn't be a huge difference in efficiency wrt to the speed
Re: Porsche Taycan breaks the Guinness World Records for coast-to-coast charging
#8About a year ago, the EA chargers were a crapshoot as to whether the rate negotiation with the vehicle would work. Looks like they either solved that problem, or had technical support from EA to ensure they wouldn't be delayed on their trip. https://youtu.be/lR41-IS9HTU?t=2590
The driver said that he had to change plugs several times. It seems clear that failed sessions were not counted as charging time.
Re: Porsche Taycan breaks the Guinness World Records for coast-to-coast charging
#9"Taycan spends a total of less than 2.5 hours charging on a cross-country drive, the shortest charging time to cross the United States in an electric vehicle – the benchmark being 7 hours, 10 minutes, and 1 second" What did he do, drive 25MPH average? It is just advertising for Electrify America (owned by VW, like Porsche), and a worthless Record without telling how long they took to drive the whole distance. A Tesla…
In electric cars, there shouldn't be a huge difference in efficiency wrt to the speed
... if you drive in a vacuum.
Re: Porsche Taycan breaks the Guinness World Records for coast-to-coast charging
#10"Taycan spends a total of less than 2.5 hours charging on a cross-country drive, the shortest charging time to cross the United States in an electric vehicle – the benchmark being 7 hours, 10 minutes, and 1 second" What did he do, drive 25MPH average? It is just advertising for Electrify America (owned by VW, like Porsche), and a worthless Record without telling how long they took to drive the whole distance. A Tesla…
In electric cars, there shouldn't be a huge difference in efficiency wrt to the speed
There actually is, because wind resistance goes up dramatically with speed.