Taycan range

I’ve a Turbo and max I’ve seen on the 17degrees day we have end of February was 229 @ 100%..

I have said this on the Taycan forum that these cars are lifestyle cars and not commuter cars if your going up and down the country it would drive me max stopping to see the Ionity charger either always busy OR out of use OR ‘being updated’ those are my finding when I have had to stop and try and charge

Shame really is, as the Taycan is one of the best Porsche I have ever Owned, just an all round super competent car

I would love to change my Model S Performance for a Taycan Turbo (S or otherwise) but it is losing the easy (and free for me) Superchargers and instead having the issues you describe above which puts me off.

Finger’s crossed the non-Tesla supercharging network keeps accelerating roll-out!

PS my range is 25% lower in winter than summer if that helps.

This is an old video, but may be relevant...

I wonder how intelligent the range estimation software is, whether the change in expected range is due to it knowing how you drive it, and whether you can reset the calibration.

The range shown on the Taycan's PCM before driving is very pessimistic in my experience. For example this figure doesn't include extra miles of range accrued during the journey as in coasting, re-gen energy through braking and deceleration. This can easily add another 10% to the indicated range at the start and probably more.
On a recent journey i did in my 4S the range shown at the start was 224miles on 100%. I then drove a total 132 miles door to door on a mix of town, motorway and built up areas and on arriving home i still had an indicated 110 miles left. I'm pretty confident if i'd kept on driving this 110 mile range would have extended by a further 15-20 miles.

It seems to me that the Taycan indicated range is fairly pessimistic (but probably more realistic) than the indicated range in my M3 Tesla - is that right? So if the indicated range is around 200 miles, travelling 150 miles would see around 50 left on one charge? As a comparison, I've done mostly motorway journeys of around 200 miles in my Tesla (which at full charge claims 306 miles) and been left with around 50 miles by the time I get home.

I only ask as I'm putting a deposit down on a Taycan Turbo next month to replace the Tesla.

Yes, agreed - my experience is that the Taycan range indicator is pretty accurate. A very gentle driving style can eek out a few more miles than the 100% range-prediction, but only by 2-3 miles or so over 180-odd.

Correct and at the maximum permissible speed in eco

Funnily enough, found this at the w/e. Yes, agree, it gives predictions that mirror quite closely what I'm seeing in real use.

At least I can be content that there's nothing outlier-ish about my car.

And, in the round, they are extraordinary cars. There's something quite luxurious about the seamless power delivery combined with the refinement and freakish ride. You can see how well suited the next gen of EV powertrain will be to a Rolls, for example, once there's a bit more power capacity.

The charging network isn't actually that bad. The Shell Recharge 150kw rapid chargers (not many around at the moment, have a look on Zap Map) seem to work at least as fast as the Ionity network. Gridserve have taken a share in the ageing Ecotricity network to upgrade motorway sites and will, I understand, put rapid chargers (350kw) at the Cornwall Services site on the A30 this summer. Their existing programme of bespoke sites continues albeit longer lead on these - understand that there may be one on the A303 near Amesbury in due course.