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We finally got ours into service to look at it from our instances in Feb and May. I'm expecting they'll just come back and say they couldn't repeat the problem so can't do anything, but thought we'd give it a try anyway since there's a minor recall item to get it on for anyway.

Myself, you mean? Yes, I can replace wipers and cabin air filter. And if I didn't want to, Grease Money will do it for 1/10th that crazy price.

Yes, same deal. $7/mo and it drops the normal rate about 25%. Rates vary by state. You can activate and then immediately cancel it too if you want, which gives you 30 days of membership discount.

We recently passed 23,000 miles on ours and the reminder to service message comes on every time we get in the car (3rd circle on the dash). I looked online at what that "routine" service includes and yeah, a lot of stuff doesn't apply and they want like $1200 for it. Crazy. So of course I...

We're coming up on the 1 year mark of owning our Macan, which means the end of our free year of EA. I figure we've gotten about $3000 out of the perk. We road trip a LOT (about 20,000 miles in the last 12 months). Starting with the next trip, I'm gonna have a whole new charging plan. Ionna...

Until you have to slow down or stop.

Sure, you can mitigate it some. But really no way to avoid at least some cold weather loss, even with extreme measures like not running any climate control or seat/wheel heating when it's freezing out. Preheating the cabin and the battery before the drive helps... for a little while...

Sure, when I say regen in the context of no 1PD, I'm talking about driving style (i.e. using the accelerator pedal to slow the car down since there's no 1PD). Not what method(s) the brake pedal uses to slow the car down. I thought that was obvious, but maybe not to all. What you describe...

200 mile RT commute? Yeah, like others said, you may want the RWD. That's what we have. EPA is 315 but as we all know you almost never get close to EPA at highway speeds. And far worse when it's cold. You can do 200 pretty comfortably without needing to stop and charge in the 315 model, but I...

Unfortunately that's unavoidable in any EV in the cold. So far I'm finding about the same cold range loss in my Macan and my Gravity at the Mach-E (percentage-wise). The Macan (and especially the Gravity) just starts with more range to begin with so it's easier to work around. We went from...

Yes, although there are heavy luxury cars without air suspension that have a smooth ride. They just do it being floaty instead of sporty (which means more corner roll). They opted for sporty over floaty in the Mach-E, as do the Teslas and many other EVs. Air suspension usually solves both...

I owned a Mach-E (First Edition) for 5 years before buying a Macan and a Lucid Gravity last year. Overall I loved it, but you pointed out the #1 reason I decided to trade it off and upgrade: the too-stiff suspension. Like many EVs (Tesla included), you feel every bump in the road around town...

VW (which owns Porsche) is sill one of the two biggest automakers in the world (Toyota the other). Like all automakers and companies in general, they continue to automate and get more efficient, which displaces jobs and high labor costs. And yes, legacy auto's rush to invest $billions into EVs...

When we were checking inventory last year in CO/UT/NV/AZ, maybe 20% were RWD. We were intending to get a 4 but the closest car we found to what we wanted was a RWD. And in an EV, it that's fine for our purposes. It's still more than enough power for our tastes (we drive it like a normal car...

Note too that cold weather makes a huge difference. When the temps get down around freezing, you'll almost never get close to 200 kW (let alone the 270 max). Even if you precondition. The charger itself usually slows way down too when it's that cold. That's not to say that preconditioning...