I get that there are passionate folks who love gas vehicles. I also get that aesthetics definitely matter and what looks great to one person will not necessarily look great to another. However, at least in terms of acceleration, what difference does it make whether the power comes from gas or electric? We want smooth, powerful acceleration, right? Certainly the electric motors are much much smoother with either 1 or even 2 gears. For many of us who have driven EVs, going back to a gas car with all of the gears shifting up and down continuously feels pretty odd just to get the car up to 80 MPH and back down vs no shifting whatsoever in an EV, just smooth continuous acceleration. I personally love having the quiet power of electric motors. I'm in my 50s so I have had plenty of gas cars with the noises they make, but I'm definitely not passionate about gas or the noises gas engines make that so many seem to be passionate about. Why does it matter what noise the car makes?
As far as charging goes, the only charging I do 99% of the time is at home. I plug in when I get home and have a full battery in the morning. For road tripping, I can either take the EV and deal with a longer road trip or I can take our gas car. Depreciation sucks for those who sell within a few years but if you keep your car for years it's really not that big of a deal, and especially if it is something we all face. I'm driving a Taycan now but my wife put 160,000 miles on her Tesla with very little maintenance costs and just had the HV battery replaced under warranty. Hopefully we will get another 160,000 miles out of it. I'm sure it has depreciated a lot since we got it.
From my perspective, why would you want a gas Macan at this point unless you road trip a lot and don't have another gas car as an option? It looks like this Macan Turbo will likely outperform any gas Macan from an acceleration standpoint and the handling will likely be similar or better. It's expensive but isn't a Macan GTS pretty close? Once you figure in the maintenance costs, the EV starts looking less expensive. My Taycan that is approaching 30,000 miles has had only routine warranty maintenance that Porsche recommends - a filter and brake fluid I think. No cost to me at all. No oil changes or any of the gas vehicle maintenance stuff. I personally love the lack of maintenance costs we have had with our EVs compared with our gas cars. My prior Audio had an oil consumption issue and ultimately a failed engine at less than 30,000 miles. I think the gas engine Macans have a pretty notorious history of significant maintenance costs for many. There are some real advantages to the EV motors over combustion engines.
