Facelift Taycan Range

[ntiz]

Hi all.

I find my self looking at getting back into an EV after having very early Tesla's and not getting on with them swearing I would never go EV again. However a new set of circumstances means I'm looking at it again.

My father has a pre face lift Taycan Turbo which he loves as a thing to drive but the range really isn't great, doesn't seem to have moved the game on much from our early Tesla's. The facelift cars in theory should go about 100 miles further (I'm suspicious).

Does anyone have one and been doing long journeys? How are you getting on with it?

Specifically the motorway range as I consider it pretty normal to rack 500+ miles a day for work. So if it struggles to do 200 travelled miles at 80mph its going to get on my nerves fast. I do stuff like visiting my warehouse in Rotterdam, suppliers in East Germany, distributors in France and Spain. I get about a fair bit.

Thinking the GTS Sport Turismo could be a good buy through my company as I have decided to focus on buying my dream cars instead of compromised daily that don't fully do what I want.

[Discombobulate]

ntiz said:

Hi all.

I find my self looking at getting back into an EV after having very early Tesla's and not getting on with them swearing I would never go EV again. However a new set of circumstances means I'm looking at it again.

My father has a pre face lift Taycan Turbo which he loves as a thing to drive but the range really isn't great, doesn't seem to have moved the game on much from our early Tesla's. The facelift cars in theory should go about 100 miles further (I'm suspicious).

Does anyone have one and been doing long journeys? How are you getting on with it?

Specifically the motorway range as I consider it pretty normal to rack 500+ miles a day for work. So if it struggles to do 200 travelled miles at 80mph its going to get on my nerves fast. I do stuff like visiting my warehouse in Rotterdam, suppliers in East Germany, distributors in France and Spain. I get about a fair bit.

Thinking the GTS Sport Turismo could be a good buy through my company as I have decided to focus on buying my dream cars instead of compromised daily that don't fully do what I want.

If you spec 20 inch wheels you will fare better and should be able to do 250 miles on the motorway in good conditions.
PS edited to add: the GTS is nice but the sweet spot is the 4S in my opinion. Plenty quick enough.

[Murph7355]

I get 200 miles out of my mk1 GTS on 21s for 75% of the year. 170-180 miles for the other 25%....and when in Germany that is always at 80+ Much faster and it falls away quickly.

The new one will exceed that...it has a 12% bigger battery for a start, and narrower wheels and tyres. I reckon 230-250 should be easy (only aware of 1x mk1.2 GTS owner on the Taycan Forum thus far, but may be worth asking there.

[rusgb]

I have the new model Taycan Cross Turismo Turbo.
The car is amazing. I've never desired a porsche but run my own company and a ev makes sense. I also have a Cali T in the garage...
Porsche is averaging 2.2m/kwh so 227m average. That is through winter, short runs, blasting back roads and no attempt to manage range. Best (according to my app) is over 300 miles range on motorways in warmer weather.
I have a charger at home. Charging on the move is a royal pain in the arse however hard we try to dress it up. We have a hybrid xc90 which is perfect for the long trips. 99% of the time on cheap electric but petrol goes in for runs. I'd take the Volvo on anything over 200 miles so I don't even have to think.
As a side note, the Taycan is outstanding. I'm way more impressed with it than I expected to be.