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I didn't say that. I said we would treat a leased Tesla Model Y (a $50k car with incentives) as a cheap beater until we found a replacement of something we liked. We don't think of the Macan EV as a cheap beater and our concerns about it and the Cayenne are that we have to classify them as...

Yes, we are not candidates for Tesla autopilot usage either.

Like many of us, she adapted to live with many of the software quirks. Some people turn off ALK because they think it's dangerous. Others think ACC wanders too much in the lane for their comfort. Etc. When the car false positives on the collision sensors, she can get out of it and check to see...

I Our Macan EV regularly posts error messages about its state that are incongruent with reality but make us wonder about its state. For example, when ACC cuts acceleration for no apparent reason. Or when the rear sensors believe we are about to hit another car in a parking lot but the car is...

No. Again, she knows how to use Tesla Service Mode and 3rd party tools to get comfortable with the state of the car. You just seem to need to believe it is the charging network. She doesn't care about the health of the pump. Only the health of the car she is driving.

Ah ... you updated the message after I responded. When she rents a Tesla, which we've been doing for years to get her comfortable, she knows how to enter a more advanced Tesla diagnostic mode and she carries 3rd party hardware/software to have a conversation with me about it. What she cares...

Unknown. I'll keep repeating it in different ways. She does not like the way that the Macan EV explains to her what is happening during the charging process. I cannot predict if she will feel comfortable with whatever happens on the Tesla network in the Macan EV.

Just to be clear, she picked the Macan EV! We bought it because she likes it on the surface. But, after experiencing it on a road trip, she prefers the Tesla style charging experience in the car.

We think the answer is 'yes'. But, it is unclear whether pre-conditioning does anything of value during summer months when the battery is already at optimal charging temperature.

My wife has enjoyed our Porsches for more than 25 years. That doesn't mean she's buying a 4 cylinder Boxster. ;)

Again, respectfully, we disagree. She has experienced rental Tesla charging diagnostics and, as a scientist, she understands what is happening and can explain it to me to give her feedback and feel comfortable enough. She is capable of understanding the difference in ICE world between problem...

Again, we disagree. The stress of not being able to understand what is happening is overwhelming for her and she doesn't want to experience it while 1000 miles away from home. It is the car.

She will never drive the car more than 50 miles from her home and it will actually Level 2 charge at a faster miles / minute in our garage than a North American 40 amp limited Macan EV. Get a grip, man!

Look, I understand you want to be right. My wife doesn't agree with your view of the world. We had the same bad user experience in the Macan EV on the brand new Mercedes Benz charging network with the most modern Alpitronic chargers. The problem is the user experience with the Porsche Macan EV...

You're not really listening if you've read this entire thread and think it is 10-15 minutes of time spent. It is the lack of transparency into whether the car is working correctly coupled with many bad charging experiences and the lack of hope that this will improve because the poor...

Our original plan was (a) 39 month lease a Tesla Model Y and my wife would use it as a beater on short trips and I would rarely drive it. We would just be waiting for something better to come along and we would buy out the Tesla lease as soon as we found a decent electric SUV. I would just...

I lived through 9,600 baud modems that were easier to understand whether you had a connection problem than a modern EA EV charging station. My past experience with EA charger performance has been better than this most recent trip. So, when I hit a string of 17 suboptimal charging sessions in a...

Yes, I agree that charging station updates can be improved. I personally try to update plugshare but it's a chore.

Almost. But, pessimistically, it's even worse than that. Because even the new infrastructure stations being built today with 400 kW Alpitronic chargers suck in NA. Don't believe those YouTube content creators. Americans have taken one of the few advanced Italian technologies that works in...

I think many of the responses that I see here don't really acknowledge the key issues: (1) over a 3 week period, I saw 17 of 19 DC fast charging curves across 7 eastern states that were suboptimal. My experience was as if I were charging a 400v car when I was stopping with (what this forum...