[Trip Report] - I'm peddling as fast as I can to generate electrons… PEC ATL to Santa Cruz in a Macan EV Turbo?

[daveo4EV]

down hill into Albuquerque - consumption has dropped from 50'ish kwh/100 mlies to less than 40 - and is still dropping…

wow - we hauled a 5000 lbs SUV up to 7000 feet at well over 75 mph over 900 miles in less than day…perhaps this is not as bad as it looks…

5800 ft now…but 22 F temp…

 

[whitex]

what we're doing here is point a to b - and never retracing our steps…it's very very unlikely my car will ever go back to Atlanta on Hwy 40…possible, but highly unlikely.

Not on the same charge it won't (which would help offset any elevation changes).

 

[daveo4EV]

yeah we're comparing a 900 mile epic road trip day - to one full battery segment that null's out all the variables - because you get to do that in real life!!

 

[whitex]

@daveo4EV , is the Macan using full regen when using the brakes, or does it require some break-in period like some Taycans did (as documented in the Taycan User Manual, reported by some owners, though not all, mine was fully regenerating when I picked it up with <50miles on the odometer).

 

[daveo4EV]

@daveo4EV , is the Macan using full regen when using the brakes, or does it require some break-in period like some Taycans did (as documented in the Taycan User Manual, reported by some owners, though not all, mine was fully regenerating when I picked it up with <50miles on the odometer).

we're full regen - and have been for a while based on visual inspection of the power meter…

 

[daveo4EV]

charging now in Albuquerque - 10 stall EA site!! - woot - 2 350 kW stalls - one 350 kW stall "power reduced" according to EA app - the sole remaining 350 kW stall is occupied by Taycan CT and has been for a while - I think the idle fee's are going to be epic - 2 other stalls of the 10 are also "power reduced" - I'm sitting at one stall which is 150 kW rated - and I got my normal 175 kW to start - and we're now down to 73 @ 83% battery soc - outside is 43 F - battery is 116 F - tomorrow we're heading west - and the first two EA sites have some interesting "check ins" lots of complaints - so we have to tread carefully…

but once you're past the first two EA sites with enough charge to get to the next batch of chargers - it looks to get better!!

we'll see how this goes - bed tgime for me soon

trip computer for today!! I never do more than 600 miles in a typical road trip day - so yeah - this doesn't happen often - but the Macan did it!!