Recent content by vanjwilson

I just did a 4-week trip in my 2025 4S from North Carolina, out to all the national parks in Utah, on to the San Bernardino Mountains, and then because I there was hardly any snow this winter in those places, I swung north to Bozeman, MT, to visit on old college roommate. I got caught in one...

I use the Porsche built-in nav for all long legs on my road trips, because I want to track estimated arrival state-of-charge between charging stops. It works for me, although I notice it usually underestimates the arrival SOC by a few percent. My road trips vary, from a few hours across the...

I happened to use both Frisco supercharger stations near Frisco back last summer, when I was staying in Dillon for a week to do some hiking. At that time, I used the Magic Dock adapter on each station, and had to activate them with the Tesla app. Sorry to hear that it's not working now...

I drove a Model Y for almost 4 years, and most of that time I just used the basic Autopilot with adaptive cruise control and lane centering. I did subscribe to FSD for a few months when the subscription became available, but it was so jerky at that time, that I finally dropped it. It was better...

2025 Macan 4S, with 21 Macan Design wheels. I took delivery at the end of last March 2025. Mix of city and highway driving, lots of short road trips (100–250 miles), and one long road trip last summer (Charlotte to central Colorado). 13,645 miles and 3.0 mi/kWh

When I asked my SA last spring if I could add Innodrive later to a MY 2025 Macan EV, he told me no, that Porsche had complaints from second buyers of Taycans, who had been told by the original owners that the car had Innodrive, only to discover that it had been the subscription, not the...

This delayed update aside, I think the Macan software is the best of the non-Tesla EV software out right now. I traded in a Tesla Model Y after 4 years of ownership for a Macan EV this past spring. I test-drove several other "hatchback" style EVs: Taycan Cross Turismo, BMW iX, and Audi Q6 eTron...

Even though the instructions say to plug in the car first, and then take the steps to start the charge (that is, use the Tesla app), I have found that it is better to trigger the charge in the Tesla app first, and then plug in. YMMV

I noticed that my car had changed back to Standard Time (EST) on Sunday afternoon, but I only noticed the time after I was leaving a place I had driven to a couple of hours earlier. I suspect it is somewhat indeterminate when the car's built-in PCM updates its timezone. While driving across the...

Every EV battery will lose some capacity over time. As far as I know, every manufacturer calculates SOC percentage based on the current capacity. That's what I was referring to in my first point. So, 100% of a new Macan is ~95kWh (100% =95 kWh). Maybe after a year, the battery has lost 5kWh of...

Electricity is not measured in distance, but kWh, at the scale of an EV. The range shown is just an estimate based on several factors. The main ones are: Amount of electricity in the battery: In a perfect world, the same amount of electricity would result in the same range. But all batteries...

As far as I can tell, you can do the following from the phone app: turn each of the four zones of the climate system (driver, passenger, rear left, and rear right) on or off for pre-conditioning the climate. set one single temperature for whichever of those zones are on then send the command to...

I never did see an email from Porsche with a tracking number for my adapter, but I found it on my doorstep Saturday. I went to the Tesla V3 supercharger near downtown Charlotte, NC, on Sunday afternoon, just to test it. The site did appear in the Porsche nav when I filtered to nearby chargers...

I just received the promised email from Porsche, with a link to a simple form that asked for my contact information, and showed a pre-populated "Passcode" at the top of that form. Look for the subject line "Order your complimentary Porsche NACS DC Adapter today" in your email.

Finally, the trip back Pony Express Station Museum, Gothenburg, Nebraska Porsche 912, in the American Automobile Experience, Kearney, Nebraska Taum Sauk Mountain, high point of Missouri (no views again?)