Re: UPDATES: 2018 Porsche Cayenne
Whoopsy:It's just about having the proper expectation.
Porsche is a performance car company, hybrid system to them is a supplementary system to the gasoline engine, unlike every other company that uses electricity as a primary and gasoline engine as the supplementary.
You thought the Panamera is a giant Prius, where the gasoline engine is a 'power adder', that's why you thought the changeover is odd and unrefined.
But if you see it as a gasoline car, and the hybrid system is the, say NOS, then you would appreciate the seamless addition of added performance from the helper hybrid system.
The e-mode in the Panamera has enough range to be a semi-primary forms of propulsion, and the 16-20km in my 918 is perfectly fine enough for a single round trip to the bank or a one way trip to somewhere a bit farther, already perfectly acceptable to me. Granted, the 918 has almost 300HP in electric mode, much more than the 136HP or so in the Panamera.
Very well said.
In my opinion, ELVs would make much more sense in busses and trucks, maybe even as autonomous vehicles.
ELVs also make sense in smaller city cars.
Everything else will make sense at some point, especially when battery technology will be more advanced, charging will be much faster and the necessary charging infrastructure will be available.
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RC (Germany) - Rennteam Editor Porsche 991 Carrera 4 GTS Cabriolet (2015), Porsche Cayenne S Diesel (2017), Audi R8 V10 Plus (2016), Mini JCW (2015)