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NFC is not required for CarKey. At all. It's available as a fallback implementation in the event that your phone battery has been dead for over 5 hours (the reserve time for BLE to continue to work after the phone shuts off). There is no hardware missing from any EV Macan that would prohibit...

Sooooo...."trust me bro" I'd be shocked if used EV buyers even knew what SoH is to ask about in the first place, let alone knew how to interpret the answer. EV enthusiasts don't even get it right most of the time. That thread discussion proves the point, concluding that there is no degradation...

The only increment in price for options at Porsche is $10, which is why, for example, the wheel caps are $200 instead of $197. The total MSRP of all configured cars is very close to 3.6% higher across the board.

Yeah, there are no port-serviceable electronic components. Cars sometimes shipped without a headlight or a kick sensor or something detachable and not essential to moving the car around the port. But as PrudentOcean mentioned, there's been none of that from Porsche on the Macan. It's either...

According to whom? It very much is not. This has been studied by chemical engineers and statisticians, not random bloggers, at volumes of tens of thousands of cars. https://www.evconnect.com/blog/how-long-does-an-electric-car-battery-last https://www.geotab.com/blog/ev-battery-health/ Any...

A "missing component" that the port would be aware of or responsible for installed might be tires/wheels or port-installed accessories (tow hitch, carbon fiber trim, roof racks, offroad kits). Probably would not be something interior or drivetrain/mechanical since those don't really get touched...

Even without the EV launch, the ICE Macan sales were trending down. They were down 18% in 2024 compared to 2023. They're down another 30% in 2025, and probably will drop another 50% or more by this time in 2026. Porsche could have sold 0 ICE Macans in 1H 2025 and the Macan EV on its own would...

A 3.6% increase on a car's sticker price would require a 3.6% increase in everything that is included in MSRP, otherwise the percentages would be different based on configuration. Those wheels only went up 3.5%--a bargain! :CWL:

Access to more information is always good and I'm all for it, but battery SoH is not "crucial". The data is really clear that it's not an area of concern. Batteries are outlasting the economic life of the cars themselves. It'd be a helpful reassurance, but irrelevant to condition or value in...

I think the decoy body wrap is fooling you. If you look at the actual roof/glass lines, the Cayenne EV spoiler is in the same place as the Macan EV. It's there because that's where it actually has an aerodynamic effect. You can see it more clearly here and here. CarWow also has several photos...

In what way? It seems to look more or less exactly like a Macan, just with some slightly larger details (an extra 4-5" height in the front bumper, fatter C pillar, more upright back glass). Same story inside--bulkier center console with an apparently dedicated climate screen, maybe a chunkier...

I'm glad that this question is the other way around--too many people spend way too much time trying to force preconditioning, when it really doesn't matter in most cases. It's just one of a hundred different small optimization tricks designed into the car. It also increases the cost of DC fast...

All steel rotors rust. Plenty of Volts with rusty brakes out there as well. The FNC coating that GM and FCA use helps cosmetically, but it also changes the friction coefficient and heat dissipation properties of the steel. Not a problem on a commuter car, but not ideal in a performance car...

Ultimately everything to do with Android Auto is a phone setting. Android Auto is 100% on your phone--after it disconnects from the car, only the phone, and not the car, can tell your audio app what to do. Since the app is running on the phone the whole time, it's a combination of that app...

Thanksgiving (US) would be closer to customer deliveries beginning than any kind of announcement. 2026 production is going to start in August as usual. What changes, if any, only certain people at Porsche know. I would guess a couple new paint colors, wheel designs, and price increases...

It's the other direction. Ventilated seats pull air through the seat into the footwell, creating negative pressure between your body and the seat, as the objective is to move heat and humidity away from your body. A fan blowing Into tiny holes would not be very effective. Running the fan will...

A lot of this comes down to just getting used to things that are different or weird bugs (that the i4 also has its fair share of) and not much that's actually significant (the floor mats are virtually identical--you want to see what a real cheap and thin floormat is, take a look at the Polestar...

Exactly this. Timeline is: 17 May 2024: production of 2024 models (Macan 4 and Turbo) begins mid-July 2024: order books closed for 2024; open for 2025 (Macan base, 4, 4S, and Turbo) late August 2024: 2024 production ends September 2024: 2025 production begins mid-September 2024: US customer...

There is also the dead key ignition pad on the interior center console. Neither has anything to do with an NFC-equipped phone responding to walking up to the door-area antenna. If it were, you'd just have to hold the key fob against the B pillar instead of the windshield in that emergency...

I'm not sure what you mean. The NFC reader in the Macan is not enabled for any existing feature. When and if that changes via a software update, the behavior of the phone may change in proximity to the door handle or it may not. In either case, the phone doing nothing near the car is expected...