Charging woes and thermal runway fires aside, the biggest issue to me is the estimated 2200kg (4900lbs ish) curb weight.
The current Macan is already too fat; the GTS has a curb weight of around 4400lbs. To it's credit, it does a great job of managing that weight... right up until it doesn't.
Porsche engineers will undoubtedly work thier magic, but I just can't see it retaining the character it has now. My prediction is that it will just be another EV that has a ba-jillion horsepower and does the same old party trick of quietly going really quickly from 0-60mph. Like all performance EV's, amazing on paper, but gets boring to drive after the first couple of weeks.
It looks pretty intriguing, but I'm having a hard time getting excited about it.
I wonder if you have driven an EV, any EV, and then driven a Porsche EV or this is more from reading about them.
I never paid any attention to EVs even though a few of my co-workers have been hard core Tesla Model S owners since it was introduced in 2012 and they would whip me around town to lunch, but I was still not paying attention, until the dealer just gave me the keys to the Taycan Base for a few days, then to Taycan 4S for a few days, then I found a Turbo to test drive, and then I was hooked, I went all out, took a second job and endured a 13 months wait from order to delivery to get me one with no compromises not because it is an EV but because it is a Porsche EV. Now, I seek every opportunity to drive it. All this chatter of weight, low range, broken chargers, and all the other negativity about battery sourcing and disposal and excessive tire wear are not false and to me expected for such new paradigm in motoring that is rapidly improving but it all goes away as you drive one, since I feel like I am in a spaceship and there is literally nothing can compete with the way it drives, because it is a Porsche first with all the years of driving tech seamlessly working together that even its what should be a twin cannot replicate (
50K incentive on Audi RS E-Tron GT), forget the startups. I do not disagree that a lot of things have to go right since the limitations above are real, but for me all things aligned, and I charge at home overnight, have almost too many fast and free public chargers (EA) within minutes that I do not even need, and I have plenty of chargers along the way if I want to take my family on 3-5 hour one way out of town trips, giving those routes a good test in the cars the dealer was letting me have for days at a time.
Therefore, we just need to be patient, and let those Porsche engineers to give us some expected magic, and then see if we get excited about it or not, but the looks so far are not what I was hoping for. My wife ran out of patience on the Macan EV, and she is just a few days away from driving her second Macan, which is a 2024 GTS (delivered but in paint protection for a few more days).
yes yes.
