Real consumption / range / efficiency thread … post your Macan EV performance 📊

[sor]

Because of the strange behavior I’ve had in coasting mode (it sometimes uses brakes instead of the regen for no apparent reason ), coasting can lose a lot of opportunities to regen, it tends to be bad no matter the scenario.
Without that bug, 1.daily and 3.highway without traffic jam are better from my experience with coasting.

The explanation I’ve been given for this behavior on other EVs is that the car “wipes” the brakes clean every so often, basically brake maintenance to account for them not being used nearly as much.

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[Yves]

The explanation I’ve been given for this behavior on other EVs is that the car “wipes” the brakes clean every so often, basically brake maintenance to account for them not being used nearly as much.

But why does regen always work when you select none coasting … brakes need to be cleaned then for sure, the behaviour is nonsensical …

 

[byebye]

The explanation I’ve been given for this behavior on other EVs is that the car “wipes” the brakes clean every so often, basically brake maintenance to account for them not being used nearly as much.

Like 2 times per minute when driving at 20 mph in the dry city? And as Yves stated, what about the discrepancy between coasting and regen modes?
That’s a bug, not a feature.

 

[Petzi]

i think there is a misunderstanding about the indicators: the lite icon just shows if the regen is generally on or off. the actual regen is showed at the instrument cluster: there is a vertical line on the speedometer. if it moves to the left regen is on.

 

[Yves]

i think there is a misunderstanding about the indicators: the lite icon just shows if the regen is generally on or off. the actual regen is showed at the instrument cluster: there is a vertical line on the speedometer. if it moves to the left regen is on.

I have the indicator in the HUD, when coasting is off I always have immediate regen, if coasting is on, it’s not immediate (sometimes it is), so some of us wonder if that has an impact on efficiency / is it just a visual bug / …

 

[Petzi]

I have the indicator in the HUD, when coasting is off I always have immediate regen, if coasting is on, it’s not immediate (sometimes it is), so some of us wonder if that has an impact on efficiency / is it just a visual bug / …

Is this not the whole purpose? Coasting = less regen, regen = regen ?

 

[Yves]

Is this not the whole purpose? Coasting = less regen, regen = regen ?

we are talking when you hit the brake pedal …

 

[nulled]

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[byebye]

Is this not the whole purpose? Coasting = less regen, regen = regen ?

Yves and I have this behavior with our Macans in ideal conditions for working regen:

mode regen on: we release the speed pedal, the regen indicator goes to the left in green and shows little to medium regen. Almost always.

mode coasting on: we release the speed pedal, we push a little the brakes pedal :
- the regen indicator goes to the left in green and shows little to hard (depending on the force applied on the pedal) regen. Sometimes.
or
- no green, no visible regen, the regen indicator stays in the center and so we assume it just uses the real brakes. Otherwise.

And you??

 

[Petzi]

There is a new and as I think very good review of the macan EV from electrek.

The part about regen:

A quick note on regenerative braking

However, despite customizable drive modes, the Macan EV does not have customizable off-throttle regenerative braking. As is the case with many other VW group cars (but not all – the ID.4 now has stronger regen), Porsche has deigned to give us incredibly minimal regen strength (which the car’s included G-force meter helpfully told me tops out at 0.1G).


You still get plenty of regen when hitting the brake pedal, but these are blended brakes, where the car decides whether to apply regen or friction brakes. This means you can feel the transition from regen to friction brakes when you brake hard or each time you come to a full stop, which made each red light more abrupt than it needs to be.


While Porsche’s available regenerative braking force is high, I will continue to note that this is an inferior approach to offering strong off-throttle regen. EV drivers tend to love one-pedal driving, it’s one of the great joys of driving an EV. Also, having one pedal devoted to controlling the motor and another pedal devoted to controlling the brakes not only makes sense, it also makes the car’s performance more predictable.


The counterpoint would be that coasting is more familiar to gas car drivers (and also offers minor efficiency benefits – but if we wanted efficiency we wouldn’t make a 630hp SUV). But the goal of an EV should be to leverage the unique advantages of the powertrain to make it better than a gas car, not just familiar to one.


At the very least, there should be adjustable regen – after all, so much else on the car is customizable – but Porsche has offered only two choices: none, or almost none.

Here the whole:
https://electrek.co/2025/03/27/porsche-macan-ev-review-a-good-car-but-is-it-a-good-ev/

 

[Yves]

There is a new and as I think very good review of the macan EV from electrek.

The part about regen:

At the very least, there should be adjustable regen – after all, so much else on the car is customizable – but Porsche has offered only two choices: none, or almost none.

Here the whole:
https://electrek.co/2025/03/27/porsche-macan-ev-review-a-good-car-but-is-it-a-good-ev/

This misses the point of regen, and I’m in camp, blended braking is the only sensible thing, the reason we started this debate is that Tesla never succeeded in blended braking and then put everything on OPD … a nightmare and shitty experience if you drive more then one car, muscle memory is a bitch.

So the correct way in my opinion and Porsches is:
or you coast like 90% of the cars (ICE / Hybrids / and many EV’s), it’s the most efficient way and lets your foot rest on long drives …
Or you brake using brake pedal and this is done in a blended way.

This way all cars have the same experience in driving, I would go nuts if OPD was the only way to have regen, also one of the many reasons I sold my Tesla …

But hey it’s a personal preference and glad Porsche thinks the same, I do understand some would love to have OPD, they should have bought the Q6, that is close to OPD in B mode …

Back to the discussion, in coasting it sometimes skips regen and uses the brakes immediately … mostly at the start of a drive, while in light regen mode, it always uses regen, also when braking.

 

[Petzi]

This misses the point of regen, and I’m in camp, blended braking is the only sensible thing, the reason we started this debate is that Tesla never succeeded in blended braking and then put everything on OPD … a nightmare and shitty experience if you drive more then one car, muscle memory is a bitch.

You still get plenty of regen when hitting the brake pedal, but these are blended brakes, where the car decides whether to apply regen or friction brakes.

 

[Yves]

You still get plenty of regen when hitting the brake pedal, but these are blended brakes, where the car decides whether to apply regen or friction brakes.

Yes and no, in My ID3 and iX I can perfectly come to a standstill without using the brake pads. The Porsche the first few minutes of a drive not, but as soon as the indication Works, I never use the brake pads, It is I who decide when physical brakes are used and that is how it should be … Guess Porsche will Eliminates this bug in an update.

Anyway with the better temperature’s the consumption is dropping like a rock, little drives around town where over 20kwh/100km and more without heating, now it drops below 17kwh/100km.

 

[CandianPorsche83]

Yes and no, in My ID3 and iX I can perfectly come to a standstill without using the brake pads. The Porsche the first few minutes of a drive not, but as soon as the indication Works, I never use the brake pads, It is I who decide when physical brakes are used and that is how it should be … Guess Porsche will Eliminates this bug in an update.

Anyway with the better temperature’s the consumption is dropping like a rock, little drives around town where over 20kwh/100km and more without heating, now it drops below 17kwh/100km.

When you do attempt to slow down the Macan to standstill using regen does the brake "grunt" or make a noise? Mine does and it's super annoying and can only describe it as the car trying to decide whether it needs to apply physical brakes/brake hold. Not sure if this is normal or not ...

 

[PrudentOcean]

My brakes are quiet and I can only sense the friction engaging on the last moments before the car comes to a complete stop.

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