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Hello All!
An extremely happy brand new Macan 4 owner here. I don't usually do forum write-ups, but feeling so excited about finally receiving the car, I somehow find my self writing this post now.
We configured an Ice Grey, 22" Spyder, Sports Chrono with air suspension, +other stuff. And the looks are just amazing. Hard to explain but when standing in front of the car it just looks incredible and 100x better than in pictures. All the details and accents just work. Also the Ice Grey seems to change it's color or shade depending on light conditions.
Recuperation did not work when received, but after some kms/miles and a few racetrack styled braking maneuvers it started to recuperate. I think people on this forum were wondering what's the mileage mark, but I think it depends on the brake wear or some other equivalent logic. I think on mine, it started to do recuperation at ~100 km. Also the recuperation or "engine braking" can be turned on in the Car -> Settings menu (I firstly had to use diamond button to turn it on, but realized there was a button in the menu).
Powerwise Macan 4 is not a party piece, but good enough for daily commute. However the handling is surprisingly good. When at Sport Plus, I think it handles better than most normal sedans and more like a sport suspension equipped German sedan. I thought "handles like a Porsche" slogan was just marketing talk, but man I'm surprised. Braking feel on corner entry also feels very good (I think this car has a brake-by-wire?) and gives a lots of confidence on entry. I'm on Bridgestones but they feel ok-forgiving on the dry (haven't had chance to test on wet yet). The only problem I've found is that I think the gas pedal has a lag (maybe 0.5s or something) and power delivery vs. gas pedal position is like exponential. When accelerating out of corner I find it very hard to control (maybe I need to get accustomed) and finding my self snapping the rears a lot.
Consumption has been dropping gradually now to ~18.8kWh/100km (@10-15C), which I think is quite good for 22" Bridgestones. Started out as 27 - 25kWh/100km. Also had that driver door shutting needing more force -problem, but it seemed to go away when doing a window reset.
But being a new EV owner, I'm wondering whats the optimal way to recharge these LFP batteries (CATL?) so that one could maintain the battery SOH? I mean the daily commute usually takes approx. 5% of battery in my case. One way could recharge the car everyday and keep the SOC at 55% -> 50% -> 55%, or like 80% -> 75% -> 80%, thus cycle amount becomes roughly or theoretically 365 per year. Another way is to do something like 80% -> 20% -> 80% or 60% -> 40% -> 60%. Then the cycle amount is theoretically 30 cycles per year or 91 cycles per year respectively.
I thought there are many Tesla and Taycan owners here (don't know if those also have LFP), but if anyone has tips and insights about how to maintain battery SOH, would be great information for us all!
Thanks
An extremely happy brand new Macan 4 owner here. I don't usually do forum write-ups, but feeling so excited about finally receiving the car, I somehow find my self writing this post now.
We configured an Ice Grey, 22" Spyder, Sports Chrono with air suspension, +other stuff. And the looks are just amazing. Hard to explain but when standing in front of the car it just looks incredible and 100x better than in pictures. All the details and accents just work. Also the Ice Grey seems to change it's color or shade depending on light conditions.
Recuperation did not work when received, but after some kms/miles and a few racetrack styled braking maneuvers it started to recuperate. I think people on this forum were wondering what's the mileage mark, but I think it depends on the brake wear or some other equivalent logic. I think on mine, it started to do recuperation at ~100 km. Also the recuperation or "engine braking" can be turned on in the Car -> Settings menu (I firstly had to use diamond button to turn it on, but realized there was a button in the menu).
Powerwise Macan 4 is not a party piece, but good enough for daily commute. However the handling is surprisingly good. When at Sport Plus, I think it handles better than most normal sedans and more like a sport suspension equipped German sedan. I thought "handles like a Porsche" slogan was just marketing talk, but man I'm surprised. Braking feel on corner entry also feels very good (I think this car has a brake-by-wire?) and gives a lots of confidence on entry. I'm on Bridgestones but they feel ok-forgiving on the dry (haven't had chance to test on wet yet). The only problem I've found is that I think the gas pedal has a lag (maybe 0.5s or something) and power delivery vs. gas pedal position is like exponential. When accelerating out of corner I find it very hard to control (maybe I need to get accustomed) and finding my self snapping the rears a lot.
Consumption has been dropping gradually now to ~18.8kWh/100km (@10-15C), which I think is quite good for 22" Bridgestones. Started out as 27 - 25kWh/100km. Also had that driver door shutting needing more force -problem, but it seemed to go away when doing a window reset.
But being a new EV owner, I'm wondering whats the optimal way to recharge these LFP batteries (CATL?) so that one could maintain the battery SOH? I mean the daily commute usually takes approx. 5% of battery in my case. One way could recharge the car everyday and keep the SOC at 55% -> 50% -> 55%, or like 80% -> 75% -> 80%, thus cycle amount becomes roughly or theoretically 365 per year. Another way is to do something like 80% -> 20% -> 80% or 60% -> 40% -> 60%. Then the cycle amount is theoretically 30 cycles per year or 91 cycles per year respectively.
I thought there are many Tesla and Taycan owners here (don't know if those also have LFP), but if anyone has tips and insights about how to maintain battery SOH, would be great information for us all!
Thanks
do you guys think I might have caused some serious damage!!! 
