To be honest I don't think you will have much better luck with any of the recently released EVs. Before getting my Macan I was actually seriously looking at Polestar 3 and Lotus Eletre.
Looking at their forums before pulling a trigger on Porsche I learned that both of them have their own plethora of SW and HW problems.
I did similar check on Macan and at the time of ordering back in May 2025 which was more than 12 months after car was released. At that time other than few outliers with really big if not catastrophic problems (which I believe were down to individual units which you will find in any brand and should be outright replaced) I have not seen any widespread big issue. Porsche to me based on what I saw seemed at the time as pretty safe bet as I hoped that their approach of not having flashy SW with OTA would mean that their SW will be pretty stable (main culprit of many problems in those other two or any other EV). I also hoped that they learned their lesson with Taycan architecture with way too many modules which are apparently nightmare to diagnose even today, as Macan should be much simpler in these terms. Also their brand is supposed to be quality oriented when it comes to hardware part of the car. Lastly I considered them as brand that will stand behind their product and do the right thing when something is not working as supposed to.
All that said if there was this particular thread back in May I would probably not have bought Macan and rather waited for something else. Battery issues on any EV is the biggest possible red flag to avoid certain model or brand similarly like engine problems on any ICE car. Owning mine Macan I also learned that many of mine assumptions about their brand were, at least based on my experience so far (I am still hoping that they will either fix my car or offer some sort of way to move to another car), not correct and other than very premium price tag and driving feel when everything actually works there is nothing special about it. Their cars in terms of quality seems to be on same downward trend of buggy SW (not having OTA does not mean that they are not releasing hotfixes it is just you wont get them unless you will visit dealer on monthly basis), cheap materials (cost savings on their end) and excuses for everything (again mainly cost savings on technicians who don't have time to be trained or properly diagnose something) that are present in any new car today. But that is just the world that we seem to live in today for some reason.
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