Who's brave enough to take on the 156,000 mile Taycan?
Who's brave enough to take on the 156,000 mile Taycan?
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resolve10

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1,171 posts

61 months

Wednesday 19th March
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Just popped up on Autotrader, as I've been keeping half an eye on the bottom end of the Taycan market for a while...

Autotrader link

Undercuts the next cheapest car (with 47,000 miles) by exactly £10,000. Doesn't seem that bad a risk given a full battery replacement couldn't be much more than that. What are they like on suspension & other components?

EDIT - for future readers if the link expires, the car is up at £25,989.

Redline88

583 posts

122 months

Wednesday 19th March
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£10k saving for 110k additional miles doesn’t sound great to be honest. Ok a lot has probably been motorway miles but how many additional battery cycles has that been through vs the lower mileage version.

ChocolateFrog

32,182 posts

189 months

Wednesday 19th March
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I doubt the Venn diagram of people willing to buy >150k mile cars overlaps with those who are willing to spend atleast £26k.

Johnson897210

832 posts

9 months

Wednesday 19th March
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Isn’t a new battery about £40k ?

f6box

237 posts

13 months

Wednesday 19th March
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resolve10 said:
JDoesn't seem that bad a risk given a full battery replacement couldn't be much more than that.
Would be amazed if if wasn't substantially more than that. It'll be multiples of £10k, how many exactly I'm not sure!

RobbyJ

1,721 posts

238 months

Wednesday 19th March
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f6box said:
Would be amazed if if wasn't substantially more than that. It'll be multiples of £10k, how many exactly I'm not sure!
Yes but you wouldn't get a new one, batteries are on a certain auction site from £7K to £12K.

Cheib

24,477 posts

191 months

Wednesday 19th March
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I wonder what the battery performance is like on that mega miles car

Johnson897210

832 posts

9 months

Wednesday 19th March
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Cheib said:
I wonder what the battery performance is like on that mega miles car
According to the EV forums after that amount of mileage/time there is absolutely no degradation at all, apparently the battery will still recharge at 99.99999%. jester

Dingu

4,885 posts

46 months

Wednesday 19th March
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Johnson897210 said:
According to the EV forums after that amount of mileage/time there is absolutely no degradation at all, apparently the battery will still recharge at 99.99999%. jester
Glad we have your insight to help…

Discombobulate

5,611 posts

202 months

Wednesday 19th March
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Johnson897210 said:
According to the EV forums after that amount of mileage/time there is absolutely no degradation at all, apparently the battery will still recharge at 99.99999%. jester
You need to do something about the chip on your shoulder wink

h0b0

8,704 posts

212 months

Wednesday 19th March
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93 kwh battery from Porsche on sale for $22,647


Edited to add, brand new from Porsche.



Edited by h0b0 on Wednesday 19th March 21:47

Grantstown

1,198 posts

103 months

Thursday 20th March
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It’s on air suspension, which works brilliantly, but I suppose potentially expensive. The RWD Taycan comes on your more conventional coil springs.

I have heard of Tesla’s doing 400K miles, so interesting to know that there is a Taycan example up to this level.

Why don’t you request a battery health check? As someone said, they are on an auction site now and they do drop away from the chassis with the car on a lift.

Grantstown

1,198 posts

103 months

Thursday 20th March
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It’s on air suspension, which works brilliantly, but I suppose potentially expensive. The RWD Taycan comes on your more conventional coil springs.

I have heard of Tesla’s doing 400K miles, so interesting to know that there is a Taycan example up to this level.

Why don’t you request a battery health check? As someone said, they are on an auction site now and they do drop away from the chassis with the car on a lift.

Crudeoink

1,081 posts

75 months

Thursday 20th March
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Cheib said:
I wonder what the battery performance is like on that mega miles car
I'd wager that it would be pretty good. The battery tech has come a long way since the first EV's we're hitting the roads. The biggest thing will be if this has seen loads of fast charging, fast charging is like running an engine at 8k prm, fine every now and again but if you're doing it for 30 mins every day its not great! If it has just been charged on a home 7kw charger and seen lots of motorway miles then battery life could be 95% or better. Still strong money for a car that can have lots of other expensive problems though

GT_cars

34 posts

5 months

Thursday 20th March
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Crudeoink said:
I'd wager that it would be pretty good. The battery tech has come a long way since the first EV's we're hitting the roads. The biggest thing will be if this has seen loads of fast charging, fast charging is like running an engine at 8k prm, fine every now and again but if you're doing it for 30 mins every day its not great! If it has just been charged on a home 7kw charger and seen lots of motorway miles then battery life could be 95% or better. Still strong money for a car that can have lots of other expensive problems though
I might know the car or a car with the same miles , he got £19k from his OPC for it, I guess it went to auction.

DMZ

1,783 posts

176 months

Thursday 20th March
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And what was the condition of it after 150k miles?

Charlie_1

1,052 posts

108 months

Thursday 20th March
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Johnson897210 said:
Cheib said:
I wonder what the battery performance is like on that mega miles car
According to the EV forums after that amount of mileage/time there is absolutely no degradation at all, apparently the battery will still recharge at 99.99999%. jester
And when they arent typing rubbish they walk on water

Bo_apex

3,922 posts

234 months

Thursday 20th March
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GT_cars said:
I might know the car or a car with the same miles , he got £19k from his OPC for it, I guess it went to auction.
If you're kinky and into chunky depreciation that's very nice

SV_WDC

971 posts

105 months

Thursday 20th March
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Fair play - these cars have eye-watering depreciation so it's impressive one with this much mileage still commands >£20k