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Just a quick observation, something that might reduce stress. Occasionally I have found that the powered charge port door won’t open when I place my hand on the rear of the door. Sometimes, it is because I forgot to unlock the car. That’s easy to observe and unlock, and not the issue here...

I am wondering what the range of voice commands is. This first list below is the example commands from the voice pilot help menu in the vehicle (settings, Porsche Voice Pilot, Help - upper right corner). The other lists below are others I found. Some of these are not useful because it often...

I just saw this YouTube video:

https://carbuzz.com/electric-vehicles-orbis-halodrive-in-wheel-motor/

Previously I posted that I’d scraped my front splitter while trurning into a parking lot. I also mentioned that I had never scraped the nose on my 2011 Cayman S over 13 years. I’ve now scraped the Macan three times in eight months. I finally figured out how to do it reliably (well, OK, why it...

Here are some thoughts after my first long trip in the Macan. Route: from Prescott, AZ to Telluride, Colorado, 472 miles. First 134 miles was on rural, mountain and high desert highways. Next 127 miles was on US interstate. Final 211 miles was again on mountain and high desert highways. I...

Shown below is my tire pressure data on a recent trip. When one adds or subtracts the current pressure and the difference from the target/reference, the resulting reference pressure for each wheel is different. So for the left front 39 + 3 = 42 target or reference. It’s different for each...

Got 283 kW charging yesterday @32% and still delivering 144 @ 72%. Yet, the battery temp got to 133 F. Asking AI, I found that degradation is accelerated when the temp is that high. Fortunately I don’t use fast chargers that often. In the future, I will monitor the temp more closely.

I soon will own two Macan 4’s. I took delivery of #1 last December and became a two EV household, owning for two years a 2023 Audi E-Tron as well. Later this year or next, I had planned to buy a 2026 Cayenne EV to replace the Audi, which has poor range of about 200 miles and buggy software...

I went to the Porsche US site to check out new and used prices on the Macan EV inventory. I was shocked to see the number of vehicles listed there. I even recognized a couple of vehicles in dealer inventories that were there several months ago when I previously looked. It also surprised me...

WSJ had an article on Porsche. Two news items in the aticle: Porsche pushed a lot of cars to the US ahead of the tariffs (delaers had accepted 37% more cars this year vs last, with additional inventory still at the ports), and “the company told analysts only that it would honor prices for...

Until recently, the sequence of design for Porsche EV’s was Macan, then the 983, and then the Cayenne. Then Porsche announced that the next model released would not be the 983, but the Cayenne EV. It would be interesting to hear from Porsche why they made this change, but here’s one...

In the book, Noise, Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman discusses how most judgements exceedingly are fraught with error. We as humans are exceptionally prone to any number of factors that hinder good judgement. For example, in one study criminal judges looking at identical case files varied their...

There is a downbeat article in the Wall Street Journal today on the significant problems in the German economy and its auto industry. The article contained a lot of depressing data on the stagnation of their economy and the breakdown of their export model, upon which the whole economy is based...

Just a couple of my pros and cons: PROS: Bizarrely and as others have noted, the Bose sure seems like it has become much better after a dismal first month after delivery (Porsche: I gave it poor rating in your recent survey with me; I retract that poor rating). So too the doors are better. It...

I took delivery of my Macan 4 EV in early December at the LA Experience Center. Here’s what I “experienced.” The day of delivery, in the morning, my wife and I first got a total of 90 minutes on the track in the Macan Turbo (45 minutes each). This consists of (1) running laps on a small road...

Eighteen months ago, for my first EV, I bought a '23 Audi Q8 Prestige (top trim with lower range than on ‘24 refresh). Now also with the Macan 4, I thought I'd offer a comparison of the pros and cons of the two vehicles, in no particular order. Note this is top level of the Audi SUV line vs...

I was driving my new Macan 4 from LA to Phoenix after taking delivery at the Porsche LA Experience Center. I stopped in Palm Springs to DC charge. I backed in, parked, opened the powered charging door, and folded down the DC flap. I grabbed the charging cable, but then realized I had not backed...