Porsche Taycan Turbo: I Almost Switched! [Auto Focus Ep 6]

Okay, so there are about two types of people in this world, apparently people who see this picture and think, oh wow, a red Tesla, or people who see this picture and think, wow, what a uneven paint job, panel with swirl gaps, quality control nightmare, so if you are the first type of person, I have made other videos about Tesla and its competitors, they are linked below, just check them out, but if you are that second person, Maybe the Porsche Tycan is for you, so this is the Porsche Tycan Turbo that starts off right. over a hundred thousand dollars, but this is it, this is Porsche's all-electric car, their four-door sports sedan, so let's look at 670 horsepower, 250 miles of range from zero to 60 in three seconds, 93 battery kilowatt hours, but a car is much more than just the numbers I like it much more continuously, so I have to see for myself what this car is about, like every time you hear about Porsche Tycan, this is the car that always mentions Porsche and the best electric cars and the most hyped electric cars and the best Tesla competitors and I have to say that after living with this car for the last two weeks, I think I'm actually a believer, but I have to show you what I mean, so I talked a lot about electric cars before I followed this one. the familiar battery in the floor between the wheels for the low center of gravity that does the rest, but there are a lot of things, including the Porsche design, that make this car a little different, obviously the Porsche look, I think The front of this car with the headlights looks very nice, of course the whole shape is not as sporty as other models, obviously it is a four-door, so it is a little bigger and I think these Arrow wheels look a little boring hiding the huge brakes.

Um, but overall the Porsche is a good-looking sedan, even better in white, which the Mission E has always been shown in. I think that's the spec I'd like to go for, but aside from the Porsche design, there are a few things that This car The way it works is fundamentally different from the way Tesla makes an electric car and I'm using Tesla for comparison because that's what I know best, that's what most people are familiar with, but yeah, it's closer to the world of traditional

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mobiles. which I think makes sense coming from Porsche, but on the one hand, this interior and look, I was one of those people who didn't really care that much or think too much about the interior of the car and people always said that the interiors from Tesla are bad and I think okay, you are exaggerating, but then I sat in this car and I will say that there is a difference between interior quality and interior design.

I still prefer the design, the interior design of a Tesla or even you know, a Ford, uh Mustang Machi or something like that. others but there is no doubt that the quality of the materials with this design they have chosen the quality of the interior is amazing but instead of just saying that because everyone always said that for me the Porsche interior is amazing instead of just saying it let me show you that the interior of the Ti-can has screens and buttons everywhere around you. This spec I'm showing you is actually the vegan interior, but there are a ton of different versions you can choose from, most of which include all the Next, the dash with 16.8-inch curved screen, back there, the controls for touch screens accessible on the sides of that dash for things like headlights, air suspension, traction control, height, etc., the metal, not plastic, piece on the door sill that says Tycan

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, These are really, very pretty, reinforced and firm.

Alcantara vegan leather seats with precise stitching everywhere as you would expect, but also fully adjustable in all dimensions, including the headrest which can go forward and backward and the actual length of the seat itself, which for taller people is quite nice . Physical buttons for the three different drivers. profiles and then a second touchscreen in the middle with a lot of controls that are quite responsive but also have really solid haptic feedback, so it replicates the feeling of pressing another real button, which is nice, a huge physical power button for turn the car. in and out of the physical metal drive mode knob, of course, the panoramic glass roof that also conveniently adds about four inches of extra headroom to the front seats, this super extra 360 camera view ​Degrees that have a lot of these views that are like third person views. of the car, which is also always white for some reason, lots of controllable ambient lights throughout the cabin, including the cupholders, huge air vents that can be controlled from the touch screen, like the model 3 and model y, so you can choose between blowing diffuse air inward. the

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ed cockpit that blows

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ed air to the actual driving positions of my hands on the wheel or individual that allows you to choose exactly where you want to blow the air this little motor inside the seat belt that actually fits it comfortably over your chest for the people in the front seats when you start driving and go above a certain speed, the illuminated USB C ports in the front and even two more between the rear seats, one for each passenger, and that touch screen in the back allows each one control your own heated seats and air conditioning airflow with the same precision as the front, this little button on the inner bottom of the steering wheel that turns on the heated steering wheel and this super discreet wireless charger inside the center console, you can plug your phone in there It connects to the car via Bluetooth and it just starts charging wirelessly in there and you can hide it and it won't slide around when you start driving fast and yes there is Apple CarPlay so I hope that illustrates the point for you that people have.

I've been trying to make myself for so long that it's not just about saying the quality or the tolerances are better, but once you sit in the middle of all this, there's even this little button at the bottom of the steering wheel, everything this is the following. level is great and now I hope one day Tesla gets to this level for their interiors, okay let's talk about batteries and charging for a second, it's an electric car so the tie behind me has a good day with a 100 battery 250 mile spec, but two notes on that number one, the can is significantly less efficient than the tesla, so what that means is everyone knows miles per gallon for cars, gasoline, electric cars, we measure efficiency in watt hours per mile or how.

How much energy it uses to travel a mile, the lower the better, so one of Tesla's specialties is efficiency. All the millions of miles of driving and research they've done on the powertrain for electric cars has my average watt hour per mile number in ghosts, anyway, usually around 350. On a good day, a little less than 300 With spirited driving it can go over 400 and that's why they have a long range version of the model S that can go over 400 miles, but the Thai on the other hand is very sporty. obviously but for the life of me I can't get it consistently below 400 watt hours per mile normally the way I drive in normal mode 400 to 500 and with some more spirited driving it easily goes over 550 600 and you'll see even higher numbers and So the 250 miles that it's rated for in the sportier modes may seem a lot more like 210 220.

So number two is when you have to talk about charging them so you can charge any of these at home. Both have their own little charging kits. Although the Porsche home charger is a bit larger and I suppose it has a fairly large box that sits on the floor of your garage, but that's fine, but for longer road trips and this varies depending on where in the world alive, but at least here. In the US, Tesla's supercharging network is still a big plus now the Tican uses what's called the Electrify America charger network and it's

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as big and you can charge just as fast on any of those fast chargers and that will get you anywhere from zero battery to a hundred percent or close to it in about 25 minutes, which is amazing, but there aren't that many high power chargers on American electrified grids, I mean, you can go to their sites and look at the two maps. and comparing yourself the fast chargers available for Porsche to those available for Tesla is still a pretty big difference and those extra chargers plus the longer range go a long way towards making a more convenient driving experience for a road trip in an electric car , so that's something.

Both cars operate differently at the moment, but I also keep wondering why more new electric cars are coming out that don't use Tesla's existing supercharged grid. It's there, they've said they would allow others to use it, but they don't. and there was even a story recently about some kind of hacking of non-Tesla cars to use the superchargers, so we know it may just not be officially supported, but I think you'd be much more likely to drive a can with confidence. every day, if I could get close to a supercharger at any time, anyway, start driving, so I meant what I said on Twitter, what did I say on Twitter?

I said the Porsche Tycan is the best electric car to drive right now, period and me. I guess I shouldn't be surprised because sports car driving dynamics is what Porsche likes, that's what they're good at, but I'm still impressed because this car I'm driving now weighs significantly over 5,000 pounds (the sedan ). Driving now weighs more than a Ford F-150 and that's the nature of electric cars at the moment, they're heavy, but still, the steering response and responsiveness feels more direct, flat and planted than any. something else in its class. anything else i have driven yes more than a tesla yes more than a model 3 and a model s but it doesn't feel light don't get me wrong you can still understand this is a heavy car but it feels so much sportier than anything else similar.

Also, you shouldn't leave out this drive mode knob at the bottom. It's quite nice here. I always like that Tesla lets you change the throttle suspension on the screen. You can go to ridiculous mode and all that, and there's a knob for this here and it's a nice knob, there's something about it being a nice knob, like it's a silly plastic knob. I would say: why is there a knob? I don't need one, but something on it is a nice knob. metal knob for changing drive modes is pretty cool so the Tycan has four modes range mode normal mode sport mode and sport plus mode so range mode is pretty self explanatory it limits you to 70 miles per time, you slow down the car to make it a little more aerodynamic and you I'm just trying to get as much range as possible so that the normal mode is the normal driving sport mode.

When you shift it, it will stiffen the suspension a little bit and make the throttle response a little more direct and then when you go into sport plus mode. it makes the throttle response even more aggressive, even stiffer and it also lowers the car so it has a more aggressive stance and you can feel it and it also turns on the electric sport sound so I stopped now. I'm going to go to sport plus mode so you can hear that sound. You can activate it for other modes, but this is the sound they give you, like a spaceship I guess, and I also swear I can hear it changing gears. when it's in this mode it sounds like exaggerated, I don't know if that sound is added at a certain speed to make you think, oh, it's like a normal car, I'm changing gears, but the ti can has a two speed gearbox which most other electric cars don't have and that allows you to keep accelerating harder at higher speeds but I don't know if that's really when it's shifting but here I'll do it again so you can hear it.

Okay, we're at zero 10 20 30 40. did you hear that? Did you catch that small? I don't know, I don't know if it's actually when he changes gears. I just thought it was fascinating and there are so many more fascinating things about this. car that I haven't even been able to dive into the quad LED headlights the door handles that open and close motorized the small front trunk that can maybe fit two backpacks the fact that there is a rearview camera and this little bump here Next to it is the Rear View Camera Cleaner. I don't think I've ever seen that in a car before.

The fact that pressing the brakes on this car doesn't actually squeeze the brakes right away, it actually starts using regen with the motors up to a certain threshold. then add physical brakes by mixing them up, like the fact that you don'tAll of this battery is available to the user and they can never fully charge the 93 kilowatt hour cell to one hundred percent, that of course is to avoid the battery degradation that comes. from charge to 100 repeatedly rear wheel steering torque vectoring 800 volt system enabling fast charging and heating and cooling efficiency consistently hard starts from zero to sixty until the battery is

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dead two-speed gearbox which I think The Tesla roadster will have to learn from the fact that there is a cargo door on both sides of the car, but you know, I think you're getting the idea, so at the end of the day, the tie can is an amazing car.

It's certainly an expensive car, yes, but it's also Porsche, what do you expect? They don't really make cheap cars but the set of advantages it has at the end of the day is really impressive, the 800 volt system they have built is great, the driving experience is amazing and I really like that they really put some effort into thinking about the driving experience of an electric car and they didn't, they didn't just release an electric version of another one of the cars that they make and that. I think that's what makes Thai tin so special and impressive to me, not just the fact that they made an electric car, but the fact that there are different ways to attack creating a great electric driving experience, kind of like phones. foldables, there is more than one right answer in all of these first generations, so that's the end of my experience.

I have to return the tai can now. Thanks to Maurice at Porsche of Englewood for coordinating this entire experience and making it possible. I'll have your link below, but I want to leave you with this question in closing because we were thinking about this in the studio and I think it's fascinating. Question for me, if we dropped a fully loaded Porsche Thai Can or equivalent Tesla in your driveway right now, which one would you take and can supercharging in the Thai change that for you? For me, I'd take the Thai Can with supercharging but without. I'd still take the Tesla, but I'm curious what you guys think either way.

That's been it. Thanks for watching guys, next one. Peace.