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.. Can't be very good for the engine or battery either...The AC continues to blow as hard if you're in 100F and stopped in traffic for a few minutes & your headlights don't dim???
In the Panamera and Cayenne, there is some sort of battery state-of-charge monitor that decides when the battery has "had enough". If the battery-powered functions like AC compressor have drained too much charge, the engine re-starts before anything bad happens to the battery.
There is all sorts of "magic" going on behind the scenes to make the start/stop system ergonomically and technically successful.
Thanks Mike. Appreciate the answers.
I'm not familiar w/ battery technology, wouldn't this diminish battery life though, having to make thousands more starts? I would also think that it could actually lessen your gas mileage if you're in stop and go traffic where you're only stopping long enough for it to turn off, then turn back on, which revs the engine slightly using more gas then had you just stopped & idled.
What happens w/ a stick shift car, if it wants to turn back on & you're in gear? Guess it wouldn't without clutch pressed...
Hmmmmm....Say you're on a really steep incline? If the car turns off w/ a stick shift seems like it could be a challenge. It already is now when someone in a truck pulls 6inches from your rear spoiler & you're stopped on a steep uphill. It's a quick maneuver with feathering the clutch w/ your left foot & a dance between the brake pedal & gas pedal w/ your right stopping the car from rolling backwards & that's when the car is running...... What's that going to feel like knowing you have to take your right foot off the brake to a gas pedal on a car that isn't running??? .. You'll need 3 feet.... I know you might not be familiar w/ all these questions, I'm sure Porsche has all this stuff figured out, just curious/thinking out loud...
Maybe this all just a ploy to sell PDK...
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