Porsche Taycan: Tesla drivers laugh at the update for sports cars - "joke of the day"

Six months ago, Porsche launched the Taycan, the first all-electric car. But the e-runabout of all things is now causing trouble with customers.

• Porsche has an update for its Taycan electric sports car.
• Instead of wirelessly as intended, the new software has to be installed in the workshop.
• The clientele reacts disgruntled.

Munich -When entering electromobility, the VW subsidiary Porsche really stepped on the gas. The sports car manufacturer from Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen promises "tingling for every single nerve cell" for its electric vehicle called Taycan, which has been available since the end of 2019 . The car delivers “pure emotion and maximum driving pleasure” and is “prepared for the future with its innovative overall concept”, the marketing strategies sound like on the website.

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But at least the statement about the “innovative overall concept” has recently begun to creep in among the discerning Taycan customers. The trigger for the unfamiliar concerns is a letter from the corporate headquarters about a necessary software update for the HP bolide with an output of up to 761 HP.

Instead of - as actually planned - via radio ( over-the-air , OTA), the new software must be imported directly into the workshop. Please “make an appointment as soon as possible” with the workshop, according to a letter published by a Taycan driver on LinkedIn. “Over-the-air updates at Porsche are carried out in the workshop. Over-the-workbench, so to speak, ”writes the Taycan driver, somewhat indignantly.

The VW subsidiary refers to technical reasons to justify the workshop campaign for the sports car with a list price from 103,000 euros . "In the case of network updates like this one," such a large amount of data is transferred that a smooth update in the Porsche Center is ensured with a high-speed line. The group promises that the function of “all control units” will also be checked at the same time. With a “technology carrier like the Taycan ”, the “complexity of the systems is at a very high level”. That is why they “decided on this approach”.

In addition to improvements in charging and the calculation of battery capacity, the update brings further optimizations, for example when driving downhill or in stop-and-go operation, writes the sports car manufacturer.

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For Tesla drivers, the update message in the workshop creates general amusement. The Taycan blasphemes about a Tesla driver on the portal Teslamag, was a "200,000 euros more expensive second car with absolutely backward technology." "Teslas", remembers another driver of the US car manufacturer, have received their "updates over-the-air since 2013". And anyway he would prefer OTA to HUB - that is, fetch and bring updates ”.

And then the sports car manufacturer also gets his fat because of the customer approach. “ Porsche ”, it says on the portal, really “still send letters - really with envelope and stamp?” That, writes a Tesla fanboy, is “the joke of the day”.