Wie GÜNSTIG kann man mit einem Porsche Taycan GTS reisen ?

You know, as an automobile journalist, I currently drive a lot of electric vehicles and I also travel a lot with electric vehicles. Among other things with my private electric vehicle, the Tesla Model 3, but of course also with some press vehicles. And you can do the whole thing cheaply, you can do it in the middle class and you can of course do it in the luxury segment. And that's what we want to look at today. We want to see how it is to travel in the luxury segment with an electric car. We are driving to Amsterdam, about 500 kilometers, and that with the Porsche Taycan GTS. Of course, I noticed the first big advantage right this morning when I loaded the car. Because luxury cars are usually big. In our case, we also have the Taycan Sport Turismo, which comes with an oblique rear and offers even more space than the normal Taycan. And accordingly, it is very well suited for traveling. We have a nice big trunk and of course we also have a lot of space in the interior and not just for one person. When I sit in here, I think we can see right away that I sit here very, very comfortably. And the back seat also looks really extraordinarily large and you can really travel quite well with more than one person. I'll take you to the latest status real quick. So, we're going to drive about 500 kilometers to Amsterdam today. I have fully charged the car and we are now setting the trip back to zero, of course. Set back continuously, exactly. And it's to zero. The car is full at 100 percent. It currently shows me an electric range of 338 kilometers. Of course, we are now going into range mode and then it shows me 352 kilometers. And then I would say it starts now. Of course, we look at how far we get with this battery charge, with this first one. How often do we have to charge? What is the consumption? And so on and so forth. I'm going to drive normally. So 120, 130, 140 in the turn. We have a sunny day in August. We have 19 degrees. So actually perfect conditions. And then let's see what we can get out of the Taycan. So guys, the first 100 kilometers are done. The whole thing is developing really well here. We are currently at a consumption of 21.8 kilowatt hours per 100 kilometers, which is significantly less than Porsche actually indicates for the Taycan GTS. It is indicated with 26 kilowatt hours per 100 kilometers. Accordingly, we are here over 4 kilowatt hours below the specification. But we also drove down to the Mosel valley. It's a long downhill. We had one or two construction sites where we could only drive 80. Accordingly, it may also be because of that. And we really have the perfect conditions with 21.5 degrees currently and sunshine. By the way, the air conditioning runs at 18.5 degrees. Just so you know again. And currently it shows me 260 kilometers remaining range, which is about the same after 100 kilometers, which it showed us at the beginning with the 350 kilometers. You also saw that I went out of the range mode. Because if I have the range mode active, it only lets me drive up to 100 km h. And this is not hypermiling here, but I just want to drive normally with my 120, 130 km h. That's simply because if I don't have active navigation in the Taycan running, but via Apple CarPlay, then of course I don't know how far my destination is actually. Accordingly, it will always try to get as far as possible in range mode and not get to the destination. Because if it would get to the destination and the destination would only be 100 or 200 kilometers away, then it would also allow me more kilometers in range mode. Probably around 140 or 130 or 120 km h, depending on what is calculated there. But since I don't have an active destination, it wants to get as far as possible in range mode and therefore only lets me drive 100 km h. So I switched to normal mode so that I can drive 120, 130 km h. And I actually drove 120 km h all the time. As I said, that works very well. We will now continue to drive with 120, 130 km h and see when we have to charge. I'll get back to you at 200 kilometers. So, we have covered the 200 kilometers after 2 hours and 20 minutes and have a current consumption of 22.6 kilowatt hours per 100 kilometers. Which is still very good. The consumption has gone up a bit. In between, it was almost once at 24 kilowatt hours. Then it went down a bit again because we had to drive in a bypass, because the motorway was closed for one departure and because we also drove a bit on the country road. But we still have a remaining range of 162 kilometers. And that after, as I said, 200 kilometers. So currently it predicts us a range of a total of 362, 363 kilometers. Which is also about the same as what it showed me when the battery was still at 50 percent. Because that was 183 kilometers. So I drove 183 kilometers at the time. Yes, there is an ECE range that has to be specified. In this case, it is 477 kilometers that Porsche indicates here at ECE. And Porsche also indicates a long-distance range from 0 to 100 kilometers. So that's about the same. And that's also about what Porsche indicates for the long distance with this car. Yes, there is an ECE range that has to be specified. In this case, it is 477 kilometers that Porsche indicates here at ECE. And Porsche also indicates a long-distance range of 377 kilometers. And we can almost do that now. If we continue to drive like this and the consumption remains approximately. Yes, then we come to about our 366 kilometers. So almost what Porsche indicates. I have to say now after the first two hours here in the car, that many things feel significantly different than with the Tesla. The wind noises are so much less. The rolling noises are so much less. The comfort and the feeling in the car, how the car rolls, how it drives, how it deals with ground waves is so high quality. And it's so much better than in the Tesla. So there is already a clear difference. And it's just fun to drive this car on the long distance. Because everything feels so mega high quality. The steering wheel, the seats, the feeling of space, the acoustics. That's really cool and very unique. And I only know that from Porsche. So, we're going to start the next trip. Because we have to take a short toilet break. Normally, I would always look for a rest stop with a charging station for such a break. Because even if we only take a five-minute break, it actually helps to load 50 to 100 kilometers into the car again. And that is very valuable on such a long distance. So always, even if you only stand for a short time, use the electro ABC Always Be Charging. And always plug in the car. And even if it's only five minutes. Theoretically, on my route here with 500 kilometers and a range of 350 kilometers, which we will probably achieve now, two toilet breaks every five minutes would be enough to get to the destination. So accordingly, use something like that. As a tip from me, even if it's only five minutes. And if you still have 40 to 50 percent in the battery, still plug in and charge for five minutes. It's worth it. By the way, we are now in Belgium. Accordingly, you can only drive 120 here anyway. So cool how well the car is insulated when you close the door. Accordingly, you can only drive 120 all the time anyway. And we do that too. So I didn't even get to the pleasure of going up to 130. I was just on 130 for a very short time. But most of the time it's 120 here. That's why we're going to keep up with the pace. It also feels pretty good. So we're really making good progress. We barely lost time according to the navigation system, even though we only drove 120. We can still drive 145 kilometers at the moment. It's on the clock. And at exactly 50 kilometers, I'll look for a charging station. Because I definitely want to keep a little buffer, especially when it comes to the public charging network. In case you ever get to a charging station that doesn't work. Because that's the case with the public charging network from time to time. So guys, it's about to charge. We are at 337 kilometers driven and with an average consumption of 21.1 kilowatt hours. So the consumption actually went down again. Even less than at the beginning. And 21.1 is really a very, very good value. As I said, I'm unfortunately in the Netherlands now. There is no more in here than 120. Here you often have to go down the highway to drive some short parts of the country and then back on the highway. That only allows 70, 80. Accordingly, the consumption goes down. And we just have 24.5 degrees. So really perfect conditions for an electric car to be efficient here. And we are. Because now we have almost 340 kilometers on the clock and still have almost 60 kilometers of remaining range. That means, in theory, we would even get around 400 kilometers in our special case. And we still have to come a little bit, because I just looked at the next charging station that can do over 150 kW. Because I was looking for that. Because the car can charge up to 270 kW. And we'll see how much it really does. In any case, the next charging station is still 30 kilometers away. So it's going to be a bit of a tight thing now. According to my calculations, we will arrive at the charging station with a remaining range of 20-25 kilometers. Actually a bit too close for me. In the Netherlands I am actually relatively reassured. Because there are a lot of fast charging stations here. Not like in Germany. But we just hope now. And that's how they are shown in the system, that they work. Accordingly, we now have 30 kilometers ahead of us. And if everything went well, we drove 370 kilometers with our battery and still have a remaining range of 20 kilometers. But we'll see that in a moment. We have arrived at the charging station with a remaining range of 27 kilometers. After a distance of 369.2 kilometers. So rounded up to 370 kilometers. And a consumption of 20.8 kWh. So we were actually able to reduce our consumption again. Which is really, really cool. And with these 25-27 kilometers, which we could still drive according to the Taiga, we would almost be able to fill up the 400 kilometers with a battery charge. By the way, the Taiga has a battery of 93.4 kWh. And we can use 83.7 of that. That means we have now driven these almost 400 kilometers with 83.7 kWh. Which is also about the same in terms of computing. And now we're going to close the hub. Here, I'm already at the charging station. And let's see what we can pump in here now. There's another car next to us. It's charging too. This is a 300 kW charging station. That means the power is then of course divided into the car next to it and into ours. But in the best case, we can charge with 150 kW or maybe even a little more. I think that's a Kona next to us. A Kona E. If the Kona doesn't charge with 150 kW. And in the best case, it will also shut down at some point in the next ten minutes. And then we get really nice, full power again. So, that looks really good. We are currently charging with 225 kW. So the Kona doesn't seem to draw that much energy. Very good for us. It says the battery would be completely full in 70 minutes at 100 percent. That is of course relatively long now. But I don't really know what the reason is. Whether it may be because of the car next to it. Whether it may be because the Taycan really drops the last 20 or the last 10 percent extremely. But we won't charge that much. So we'll probably charge up to 70, 80 percent. We still have 134 kilometers to drive. That means, if we calculate it now, that we would theoretically get there with 25, 30 percent battery. But of course we go for a safe number. That's why we charge at 70, 80 percent. So far, I have to say, I like the whole thing very much. I would not have thought that we would actually come down in terms of consumption. And that the whole thing is about 20 kilowatt hours. Or about 20.8 kilowatt hours. Which is of course really worth a top for such a large car, even with the performance. And if we then calculate or consider that we also have such a large battery of over 80 usable kilowatt hours, then 400 kilometers here are really really doable. That's really cool. But of course, as I said, we now have very optimal conditions. So we drove 24 degrees in bright sunshine. We had hardly any traffic jams in the Netherlands, hardly any traffic jams in Belgium. And we were limited to 120 km h. Had some construction sites. Had to cross the country from time to time and drive through the city. If you now drive upwards on German highways, I say 140, 150, 160, then the whole thing looks completely different again. And of course also in everyday life, if you move such a Taycan, for which it is made somewhere, in a sporty way, then let it be a real 280, 300 kilometers. But that's really not bad either. We stop after 34 minutes and we are at 90 percent after 34 minutes. He's still charging at 50 kilowatts, which is actually still okay at 90 percent. But he also indicates that he would need another 30 minutes to get to 100 percent. Of course, that doesn't make any sense. I actually didn't want to charge to 90 percent, but I just ate something. That took a little longer. We charged a total of 75 kilowatt hours and now we press stop here. The Kona next to it was on all the time. But it only charges with 10 kW or so. So it doesn't pull much away now. But it didn't really go higher either. So it stayed at a maximum of 225 all the time. And then of course it went down more. In between, everything was free on the left. I just thought for a moment whether I should switch. But we were already at 45 percent. And then I thought, no, it doesn't make sense to switch again at 45 percent. Because it doesn't go up that high anyway. That's why it fits. We have 90 percent. And it now shows me a range of 331 kilometers. We still have to drive 130. So we have 200 kilometers of reserve. That's more than enough. That means when we arrive, we really still have enough reserve. And that for a 500-kilometer stretch, where we took a little over half an hour to charge. And if we had charged during the toilet break earlier, it would probably have been much less. So guys, we arrived after almost six hours and exactly 504.6 kilometers. And an exact consumption of 21 kilowatt hours per 100 kilometers in Amsterdam. I'm standing in front of the parking lot. I haven't driven in yet because I wanted to finish the moderation here in the light. And we have a range of 213 kilometers. That corresponds to 58 percent battery, which is really good. We can also charge in the parking lot, I just saw. If I had informed myself about it beforehand, I could have saved a lot of time charging earlier. Because I could have just arrived with zero kilometers and still be able to charge here. In terms of time, we could have optimized it in any case. Among other things, we could have charged during the toilet break. And then we wouldn't have had to charge so long during the second break. And also with zero kilometers or 0 percent, or I'll say 10 percent remaining range, would have been enough to arrive. I think the 21 kilowatt hours of consumption per 100 kilometers is mega good for such a large and, of course, highly motorized car. So I can't complain about that. And I calculated what the whole thing now consumes with 21 kilowatt hours at the current prices here in the Netherlands at the HPC chargers, namely 60 cents. So the HPC chargers cost almost all 60 cents here. I calculated what the trip cost us here. And that's 63.50 euros, which we have now paid for these 504 kilometers. In contrast, I have now calculated what I would have consumed with my Tesla Model 3 on this trip. Of course, there are now a few factors that make the whole thing cheaper in this case. And not just a little bit, but a lot. Because the Tesla consumes much less. Actually even less than the value I actually calculated now. I have now calculated with 13.5 kilowatt hours. But if I now take the average speed that I drove here or the time that I needed to calculate down, I would probably have consumed even less with the Tesla than 13.5 kilowatt hours per 100 kilometers. Therefore, the 13.5 kilowatt hours are very high. And then we would have spent 19 euros on this trip with the current prices at the superchargers, which are 28 cents here in the Netherlands. So these are all, of course, approximate prices. Of course, there would still be charging power losses, etc. But still, it's a third of what I spent here with the Taycan. Of course, I traveled much more comfortably. Of course, I had a lot more power under my ass. You have to say that, of course. Everything is much more chic and more pleasant. Except for the navigation, which I find much better with the Tesla than with the Taycan. That's why I searched everything with Apple CarPlay and the charging stations from hand to foot. Because I'm not such a fan of that. Nevertheless, I would have had a third of the travel costs with the Tesla, which I now had with the Taycan. And whether that is really worth it to you, of course, everyone has to decide for themselves. If I had the money, I would much rather drive the Taycan. But we have now talked very little about the car itself. And I think we should do that now. So, three days later, we are back from Amsterdam. And I tried to do exactly the opposite on the way back, as on the way there. On the way there, I really wanted to look at statistics. How is it when we drive normally? Normal travel speed, i.e. no hypermiling. Don't try to be as economical as possible, but normal travel speed to Amsterdam. On the way back, I have now tried to get back from Amsterdam as quickly as possible. And that worked, because I think I was faster by over 1.5 hours. I only needed 4 hours and a few 30 minutes. But of course I consumed a lot more, i.e. 31.1 kWh per 100 km. So almost 10 kWh per 100 km more. And that also reflects in the costs again. And we have now paid 88.80 euros for the way back. Which is 25.30 euros more than on the way there. But of course a significant time savings. Of course, you have to think about whether this money is worth it to you personally. For me personally, yes. I found it much more efficient, because in these 1.5 hours I can do things that are worth more to me than these 25 euros that I pay. On the way back, I was charging three times. Once 12 minutes, once 10 minutes, once 8 minutes. So a total of 30 minutes. Also, as I have already explained to you, it is much more efficient to charge shorter and especially to charge in the lower percentage range of the car. That means I was charging shorter in total time than on the way there. But I have already put in a lot more kWh into the car and consume a lot more, of course. In any case, apply this tip if you want to be on the road quickly. Of course, I could have used that on the way there too. But I wanted to see how far you can get with a battery charge. What you also have to say is that I started with 100% and arrived with 50% on the way there. And on the way back, I started with the said 50% and then arrived with 0%. If you compare it now, it doesn't really matter, because I had a 50% difference on both trips. One from 100 to 50, the other from 50 to 0. But of course it would have been much faster if I had started with 100% and arrived with 0%. Because then I could have completely saved one charging process. I would have been 15 minutes faster on the motorway. But let's get to the car itself before the video is over. We are sitting in a Porsche Taycan GTS. What does GTS mean at all? GTS is located between the Taycan 4S and the Taycan Turbo. It's a medium between super sporty and super suitable for everyday use. That's exactly what the GTS wants to achieve. This good spread between sportiness and everyday use and still bring enough range. According to WLTP, it should be able to do 504 km. We saw in the first part of the video that it unfortunately can't do that. But still, it is very range-sensitive. And you can also drive it very low-consumption for a Taycan with 21 kWh. It then delivers 517 hp in continuous operation and 598 hp in overboost. That also corresponds to 850 Nm, which are then distributed to the two engines in the front and rear. That's 3.7 seconds from 0 to 100 kmph. That's a lot of time. And you can feel that when you're in the car. Because when I accelerate, and now I'm allowed to do that, because now I'm not even on the expressway, it has a lot of power. Of course, it can't be compared to the Turbo we had two or three years ago. But it really has power and is really fun. And is worthy of the name Porsche. So more than worthy. And you can see that not only when accelerating, but also in general driving behavior. The car is for such a heavy car. So light and easy to drive sportily. Lies so well on the road. The standard air suspension, which is in here, is very well tuned. The center of gravity shift is of course really, really good. And also in general the ergonomics in such a Porsche. How you sit, how you can adjust everything. There is no car for me personally, where I can take such a good, sporty seating position, which allows me to drive so well, even on the racetrack. And at the same time is so comfortable and comfortable on the road. So you really have to take the hat off to Porsche again and again. There is hardly a manufacturer. I would even lie out of the window and say there is no manufacturer in the whole world, who manages to make a car so suitable for everyday use and so sporty. There is no car where you just have to turn the lever. And it's as well-equipped for the racetrack as a Porsche. But still so comfortable in everyday life and so suitable for everyday use. And that's the madness. Whether that's worth 162,000 euros to you, everyone has to decide for themselves. It's really a lot of fun to travel with it. But 162,000 euros is of course a lot of money. The whole thing starts at about 135,000 euros for the Porsche Taycan GTS as a sports tourism, which we now have with the large trunk, i.e. in the station wagon version. And depending on the equipment, you get another 20, 30, 35,000 euros on top, as with our test car with 162,000 euros. So that's it with today's video. We were a little different, we were more for the statistics freaks among you. But they also exist. That's exactly what some people want to see again and again. Of course, it wasn't exactly on point and on the spot. It was all so unfair values. Of course, that's super badly reproducible. On some days it's like this, then it's like this, then the temperature is different, then the weather is different and then there are load losses and so on and so forth. So of course you can make it even more accurate and exact. But I think the way I did it, it's for 80, 90 percent of you out there, really the most powerful statement. And I hope you enjoyed watching. See you next time. Take care. Ciao.