When you need them,you need them. Always put chains, safety and first aid kit and water in my vehicles during winter driving. Just like to be prepared in case of problems in mountainous areas with spotty cell service. Only had to use them a few times, but made things much better.
Thought I share a picture of the winter snow chain package that is Macan EV 20" soecific. For those of you that like running your car into the snow covered terrain.
The trip is a real time killer for me, and it sounds like for you as well. Last visit to the dealer for scheduled wheel change and software update had us sitting in the dealership for 3+ hours, not counting 3 hour round trip drive. OTA would really be nice now that winter weather has arrived...
@daveo4EV agree. fleet telematics could this stuff many years ago. OTA updates for items are easy enough, but security, compliance and regulation should be looked at and codified before pushing code to cars without customer engagement.
Yeah, I'm not drag racing folks at stop lights. Works fine in the twisty roads, get great range. Fast enough to get a huge ticket if that's what floats your boat.
Flip it to sports + for pass. Plenty quick enough for most cases I've encountered. I'm coming from M3 and M5 cars so I have a bit of perspective on giddy up factor.
That is my understanding as well and what I used when I cleared ice before. I will do some more digging around to see if there are any other bits of info on activation though.
Also in NH. It works nicely to clear our legendary ice crust. Took the car out in a couple snow events and gave it a whirl after it was parked and had crusted up.