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"Taycan spends a total of less than 2.5 hours charging on a cross-country drive, the shortest charging time to cross the United States in an electric vehicle –

"Taycan spends a total of less than 2.5 hours charging on a cross-country drive, the shortest charging time to cross the United States in an electric vehicle – the benchmark being 7 hours, 10 minutes, and 1 second" What did he do, drive 25MPH average? It is just advertising for Electrify America (owned by VW, like Porsche), and a worthless Record without telling how long they took to drive the whole distance. A Tesla Model S crossed the country in 42 hours and 17 minutes.

Reichhardt 5y ago
Peak efficiency is at about 40-50mph, at least for Teslas: https://forum.abetterrouteplanner.com/uploads/monthly_2018_11/Tesla_3_LR-Tesla_P3D-Tesla_S100D_efficiency_metric.png.78cb018e350cb4396263d576a005abb2.png https://forum.abetterrouteplanner.com/uploads/monthly_2018_1...
- groone 5y ago
  It says on the chart km/h not miles/h!
nitinagg 5y ago
In electric cars, there shouldn't be a huge difference in efficiency wrt to the speed
- masonic 5y ago
  ... if you drive in a vacuum.
- _ea1k 5y ago
  There actually is, because wind resistance goes up dramatically with speed.
_ea1k 5y ago
It was about 5 days and with few details on total energy consumed.