Tesla Competition? Think Not

[Gone_2022]

Good video to watch. They do a cannonball run in the Porsche Electric car. I would never do such a drive, but it shows the huge glaring issues the car has as well as the Charging network it runs on.

Porsche claimed 350kw of charging, however nearly all of those chargers did not work with the car. Some sort of software bug possibly. Also the car had glitches as well, the main screen just shutting off, the navigation was frozen in another state and even Porsche couldn’t fix it at the dealer.

It’s a long video, but it shows that the competition is still years away and they are feeling some of the same pains Tesla did before. Just because you are some big bad manufacturer doesn’t mean you will get it right.

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[Gone_2022]

Again long video, skip around to when they are at chargers trying to find one that works happens nearly every single stop.

 

[Turk]

I’d take that Porsche over a tesla every day of the week and twice on Sundays. Every review I’ve read has applauded how awesome it is. I’m considering the Audi GT as my next car.

 

[Gone_2022]

I would not. Simply because like I’ve said from the beginning their charging network is nowhere close. This video showed huge issues they need to figure out and soon.

Want a super expensive car for putting around locally? Sure. But as a competitor? It is not

 

[Turk]

I would not. Simply because like I’ve said from the beginning their charging network is nowhere close. This video showed huge issues they need to figure out and soon.

Want a super expensive car for putting around locally? Sure. But as a competitor? It is not

Exactly, depends what you’re using it for. Car would be trickle charged at work and home so it doesn’t really matter. We’d have other gassers for road trips.

 

[Gone_2022]

Exactly, depends what you’re using it for. Car would be trickle charged at work and home so it doesn’t really matter. We’d have other gassers for road trips.

Totally different story. And like most of those reviews you saw I’m sure were for a day where they were loaned the car to blast around and rave about the speed and tech. Very few I’m sure were longer drives.

 

[Gone_2022]

I encourage you to watch the video though. Also surprised me how damn long the handshake is between the charger and the car before it starts charging.

 

[MikeyLikesIt]

I don't want to watch such a long video, but if they are using Electrify America, they are total crap. I've tried three different times to charge our cars on their stations and its never worked.
I read an article on how they outsourced everything and they have 4 different vendors for card readers and making the physical stations. They aren't working well together and they are just plagued with problems.

As Turk said, if you buy an electric car for around town and a gasser for long trips, you'll be fine. If you plan on road tripping your electric car, Tesla is the only real option right now in the US.

 

[Gone_2022]

I don't want to watch such a long video, but if they are using Electrify America, they are total crap. I've tried three different times to charge our cars on their stations and its never worked.
I read an article on how they outsourced everything and they have 4 different vendors for card readers and making the physical stations. They aren't working well together and they are just plagued with problems.

As Turk said, if you buy an electric car for around town and a gasser for long trips, you'll be fine. If you plan on road tripping your electric car, Tesla is the only real option right now in the US.

Electrify America partnered with VW and Porsche. So “technically” this is as close to the supercharger network for this Porsche as you can get since they had their hand in it.

So really these types of issues should not be happening in production. And it should not take random YouTube people to figure this issue out for them.


Also I know it’s long. Just skip around. Nearly every charging stop was plagued with problems. They had to resort to only using the 150kw connectors as the 350s wouldn’t work.

 

[Kaeghl]

This is just so stupid. Tesla open sourced the specs on the charging tech. Anyone can use it. The fact that porsche decided to go with their own version is like apple sticking with the lightning port when the rest of the world moved onto USB

 

[Gone_2022]

If this worked I wouldn’t be knocking it. “When” they were actually able to get it to work it was comparable to my model Y charging wise. I can pull 250kws at a version 3 Tesla charger. The Porsche in the video was typically about 240-260 kws on the 350 charger. So that actually makes me question if the car would ever be able to do 350kws or if Porsche over promised and under performed.

That being said 90% of the time they couldn’t get them to work. So they wasted 5-10 mins every stop going from 350kw charger to the next before finally giving up and just resorting to the 150 level charger.

 

[Stink Star]

Not to mention..... 200 mile epa range vs 400 mile range for model S

 

[MikeyLikesIt]

But if you put that Porsche interior in the Model S, that would be a great car.