4trac:
Whoopsy:
No matter how good the Taycan is, and it is a truly impressive car, it's missing the secret sauce.
I haven't touch my Taycan for a month now, every time I picked up the key, I dropped it and take the Panamera instead. Or the Exclusive.
Just did a road trip to my track over the weekend, was going to take the Taycan this time around since I scout out the charging spots last time, but I am not prepare to take an extra 40 mins of charging time on a 4hr drive. Simply a waste of time, especially when the Panamera can do 700-800km on a full tank. That's almost the whole round trip, which is 880km.
The way in involves starting from sea level and climbing a few mountain passes up to 1700+m, so while a Model 3 theoretically could do it in one go, in reality the Model 3 is pretty much empty once arrived and will need charging right away before going anywhere, so even the Tesla will need a charging stop in between just like a Taycan. And that's how my friends did it in their Model 3s and Model Ss. Their range advantage are also neutralized with overnight charing at hotel. I even plug in the Panamera to charge up the battery even and park in EV preferred parking. Panamera turbo S is simply the better more complete car than even a Taycan. Hybrids have the best of both worlds right now.
These are very useful reality checks, on EVs you actually own. Sort of reinforces that if you only drive around large cities, most EVs will do the job with no real range or charging inconvenience issues. But your travel to the Okanagan means entering the fairly remote world that much of Canada, or western US, lives in - large distances, smaller or nonexistent towns, and limited infrastructure for many things.
That's the inconvenient truth about advertising for current EVs. Range really doesn't matters anymore, so those headline grabbing range numbers are just that, for headlines.
Honestly, the trip could be done with say a e-Mini with like 200km of range. Even in mountainous BC. From the coast it's 150ish km to Hope, flat terrain. From Hope it's 120km up the mountain to Merritt. From there it's another 120ish km to Kelowna up and down the mountains. Then everywhere is mostly within 100ish km if that. Electrify Canada have their fast chargers installed in these specific towns for a reason. The down side is that the province is hilly and highways have to go around peaks, and the destination one want to go may not be close to the major one and without connecting highways in between and the charging becomes the issue. There are more and more chargers popping up everyday but in remote towns the chargers will be much slower, say 50kW max.
Eastern side of the country is much better with denser cities and cross routes that interconnect major highways, detours for charging isn't too much of a hassle. Same situation for East and West coast of the USA, and most of Europe where everywhere is pretty close by.
Infrastructure will always be the key to EV adoption, and it still quite far behind. Waiting for the day when I can just take off in my EV and go anywhere, without first studying a map and find where the chargers are and plan the route around them.
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... conclusion, if you want to drive a Taycan, don't do steroids 
