Fixed it for you.

In all seriousness, I don’t mind the giant iPad. I miss having gauge information in front of me. I think the model S is great. You have just enough physical controls to be convenient and also relevant info in front of you. I also like the portrait style layout. The Model 3...no. Too many controls taken away. Not enough physical features like vents, etc. Relevant info not readily at hand. And FWIW, I always thought ICE cars with center mounted gauges like the Toyota Echo and other’s was stupid too.

I vet vet innovation and change. Some of it works, and some not. I find the model 3 in the latter, not the former.

I never called the Model 3 slow. I said slower than the S. Even weak EV’s aren’t slow, and the Model 3 isn’t weak!

The physical cal controls are not there. I sat in the car 20 minutes and was able to do everything. Those scrolly wheels are decent, but not what I’m referring to.

Thanks! 👍🏽
For many years I commuted by motorcycle. The first thing I did whenever I bought a new bike was tape over the speedometer with electrical tape. I always found speedometers and other gauges to be a distraction from the task at hand, and wholly unnecessary when rolling with the flow of SoCal traffic. Never a single speeding ticket either btw!
So count me as one who won’t miss gauges when they are gone.

For sure

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https://autoweek.com/article/green-c...n-and-panamera

Starts at $75k, ranges up to $200k for a “Turbo S”...
I’m guessing we won’t see sub-$100k cars in the US before the 2022 model year, if ever. No doubt Porsche will sell every one they import nonetheless, mostly because they won’t be importing very many and all early allocations will go to California.

The California consent decree requires these cars be on sale by the end of 2019, ready or not...
https://arb.ca.gov/msprog/vw_info/se...threeliter.pdf
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Here’s some news.

Penta Daily

Porsche’s Taycan Electric Will be Fast, Quiet—and Under $100,000

The former Mission E will offer four doors and a zero to 62 mph time of just 3.5 seconds

Porsche announced on Wednesday that it would price its new four-door electric sports car, the Taycan (formerly the Mission E), at $92,500. That’s right between the Panamera and the Cayenne (also four-door vehicles), and the company thinks that—priced that way—it can move 20,000 units annually. It will be a challenge in an increasingly crowded performance electric space.

The Taycan (which means “lively young horse” in Turkish) will be more sports car than sedan, with a rakish coupe roof. It’s electric, but hardly slow: two permanently excited synchronous motors (PSM) together generate more than 600 horsepower. Zero to 62 miles per hour takes just 3.5 seconds, and the car can reach 155 mph. In European testing, the car’s range is more than 310 miles.

Stefan Weckbach, who’s in charge of developing the Taycan range, said in an interview on the company website, “It was clear from the beginning that an electrically powered Porsche—like every other Porsche model—must be the sportiest vehicle in its segment… It’ll clearly be a Porsche at first glance, because we’ve transferred the design DNA of Porsche to our future electric vehicles.”

According to Sam Abuelsamid, an auto analyst at Navigant Research, the price is not unexpected. “It really needs to be in this range to be competitive with the Tesla Model S,” he tells Penta. “Granted, this is a Porsche, so it should be possible to drive the price up considerably through the options list.”

The Taycan will have an approximately 90-kilowatt-hour battery, with 400 cells. Using a 350-kilowatt charging station, Porsche says it can add 62 miles of range in four minutes. That very fast charging—which could add 248.5 miles of range in 15 minutes—is made possible by the VW-funded Electrify America initiative, which is planning installations at 300 highway locations “from 2019.”

By the end of June 2019, Electrify America, which is investing $2 billion over 10 years, said it will be able to supply an interconnected network of about 12,500 chargers. Porsche is also looking at wireless charging—via a floor-mounted plate—for the Taycan.

Porsche says it will invest $6.8 billion in going electric by 2022—double its original estimate. As much as $573 million will go to developing variations on the Taycan. A higher-performance version could be priced at $229,000, Lutz Meschke, Porsche’s chief financial officer, told Automotive News Europe. Some$1.14 billion will go to electrify and hybridize the existing product line. And $800 million will be spent on such technologies as charging infrastructure and smart mobility.

In the Volkswagen Group’s electric plans, Porsche’s Taycan complements the Audi e-tron, a luxury battery SUV that arrives next year; and, from VW itself, the I.D. CROZZ (a crossover SUV, due out in 2020), and I.D. BUZZ (a reinterpretation of the Microbus, aimed at 2022). Both VWs will be built in the U.S.

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