Leawood911:
You could virtually substitute the km with miles to see the Tesla efficiency. I love how liftoff regen braking is funny business.
I have found that the EV is very sensitive to how it is driven. In the city with a very light throttle it get huge miles per kWh. If I drive it the way I prefer - flat out - it sucks power like mad. Surprising the Audi is less efficient as I would assume you drive the Porsche faster. Good specs!
And a Corolla is more efficient than a S-Class..........Different category of cars so comparisons are pointless.
e-Tron and Taycan are in the luxury class, they were never designed to be the most efficient in the first place anyways.
Anyways, don't mistake city driving is 'mild'. From rest, I have a certain expectation of acceleration Gs, namely ~0.3G, easier to get to that in the Taycan, but needed a bigger throttle application to get to that in the Audi, power graphs tells me it needs ~60ish% of power to get to that level of acceleration.
Taycan has a more slippery profile, also a more efficient 800V system as compared to the last generation 400V system in the Audi.
As a EV, the e-Tron is good enough. maybe it's the worst in efficiency and runs on last generation 400V system, but it does charge up faster on fast chargers.
But as a 'car', it's great. Drives nice, roomy enough for people and cargo and power is more than good enough.
Taycan as a EV is amazing, with cutting edge EV tech that's not equal until the Audi e-Tron GT hits the market. As a car though, while it has amazing handling and borderline great power even in 4S trim, it trails the Panamera in pretty much everything on car metric, not enough cargo room and barely enough passenger room.
Got another 18 months or so on the lease for the e-Tron, if there isn't a better EV SUV on the market, I am tempted to trade both in for a Taycan Cross Turismo. Possibly in turbo trim. Can't go back to dinosaur-era 400V system for EVs now that I have been spoiled by the 800V Taycan.
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