Taycan Turbo

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Pivot wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 6:36 am Interesting development… so now I can have Taycan as a ‘company lease car’, however, standard lead-times apply, so approx 12 months waiting time.

Now, I have a Hobson’s choice: do I take Taycan on offer, or stick to the 911 C2S, which I always wanted, but waited too long to pull the trigger. The tax benefit will not last forever.
I suspect that as soon as there is critical mass of EVs, the tax benefit will evaporate. The 911 will also be superseded, so it is a tough call.

Any interesting contrarian views?
I'm told business users have returned their cars after discovering the public charging network cannot support their use case.

The 911 is a different car in so many ways, and you'll have plenty time to appease the tree huggers in the future. You're a long time dead!
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Out here where I am in Portugal, directly opposite my apartment is specifically marked out changing bays, for electric vehicles.
Now after more than 6 weeks, I have not seen any of them being used, for even the shortest period of time. Just shows how the take up of EV’s is going here.
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This is exactly why there are tax incentives. Once the charging network is widely available and EV parking bays are full, tax arbitrage will disappear.
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Wing Commander wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 7:41 am Well, you’ve always wanted a 911...

The Taycan is a great car. It will become a more common sight, and the number of variants will increase, as EVs generally increase in numbers greatly over the years to come...

The 911 is an iconic classic...

You only live once... ;)
I’ve got this on my office wall.
I think you can live at least 50 times 😂

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^^^ Very nice!

I think mine would be 3 or 4 years on from the one on the bottom right. ;)
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I am thinking of getting second hand 911 now for a year (as new 911 is unobtanium), then Taycan lands in 1Q2023 and I get dragged into XXI century kicking and screaming 😆
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That's sounds like a superb plan!
There's a nice Lava Orange 991.2 GTS for sale 👌🏻
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I predict that the current oil & gas crisis — compliments of Mr. Ras-Putin — will accelerate R&D of alternative energy sources.
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Only problem is that we will need more gas and oil to generate the electricity spike in demand
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Bluesnose1812 wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 10:41 am Only problem is that we will need more gas and oil to generate the electricity spike in demand
I live near Derby which is also home to Rolls Royce nuclear division. They are developing “mini” nuclear reactors (size of a tennis court instead of Wembley stadium) in order to place on the sites of existing decommissioned coal power stations.
This is quite an elegant solution as further construction of grid access is not required so also cost effective.
Windmills just ain’t gonna cut it when there are 20 million electric vehicles on the road… 🤔
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