Porsche Disrupts Itself with Taycan
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Also, I was treated to this message after it was finally done:
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well, that's instilling confidence any data they have is secure and safe
Only there will be 220 new Taycan owners to redeem themselves as soon as orders go through and everyone unilaterally upgrades to the most expensive save the planet car like their iphone the same day.
Back to same old dirty stares in the facilities gym.
With the Taycan, I feel that Porsche has achieved something magnificent. They’ve proved that cars can be filled with screens and be art also. I don’t think I’ve seen any other cabin integrate digital displays in such a purposeful, elegant way.
The headlights though, look like some kind of light based disease has begun eating away the front of the car. My partner has trypophobia and I would be hesitant to show her that photograph!
The only place where VW is really trailing Tesla (once the ID3 will be released) are the chargers, let's hope this situation improves in the coming years.
Still a little bit pricey, 30,000 euros is already Tiguan (i.e. CUV) territory while ID3 is just a hatchback, I’m curious how the market will respond.
HN is full of Tesla fans, not EV fans, and the voting patterns generally bare this out.
As an EV fan myself, it's a little annoying.
It's the first EV that has shown it is possible to make an uncompromising track car with an electric drivetrain. Tesla proved you could make a fast car but not a reliably fast one.
Porsche isn't a mass market brand. It's target audience are mostly people who either (a) take their cars to the track, (b) want to one day take it to the track or (c) are attracted to the company's lineage in track racing.
And so the Taycan is unquestionably targeted at their audience and is designed to be disruptive to their core business. Not to anyone elses.
The Taycan, and upcomming electric Porsches are a great sign that Porsche is going fully electric sooner rather than later. If on the premiere performance brands goes fully electric, others will follow.
• Noise is wasted energy, so the quieter a modern vehicle, the better as far as I'm concerned (I have Iain M Bank's descriptions of the efficiencies of some of the ships in his books to thank for this line of reasoning)
• Good! If the transition to electric makes the future streets of London quieter because micro-genitalled cretins parading up and down the streets in their over-powered cars (that are only allowed to do <30mph on the streets anyway), then I'm all for it.
Do you have a source for that? If it was true race cars would be a lot quieter
You can work it out from first principles. The loud noise is a form of energy - therefore all of the sound reaching your ears is energy which was produced by the engine but did not contribute towards propelling the car.
> If it was true race cars would be a lot quieter
only if there was some way to recover the energy from sound or prevent it from being emitted in the first place
since race cars are loud we have to assume that losses from noise are an unavoidable side-effect of the workings of internal combustion engines
We can see here an article from 2017 celebrating a Formula 1 racing engine reaching >50% efficiency for the first time: https://www.britishgas.co.uk/business/blog/mercedes-formula-... "The F1 cars are now closing in on levels of thermal efficiency reached by diesel engines used in large container ships..."
so half the energy from combustion is lost as heat, noise etc
The sci-fi angle I alluded to relied on hyper-science as the solution for ensuring that all energy within the system was used beneficially.
A few points:
1)
Internal Combustion engines work by harnessing explosions. Each explosion pushes a piston, which is then harnessed to do useful work rotating the wheels.
The Exhaust note is caused by agressive expansion of gasses rushing into the exhaust. That expansion _could_ have been used to push the piston more (in practise you'd need a secondary expansion unit, which isn't all that practical .)
2)
The exhaust system is there to reduce (and modulate) noise levels (and emissions). It weighs a not insignificant sum, causes back pressure, which affects the efficiency of the overall system. (although now that heavily mitigated, even more so with a turbo.)
Granted, most of the energy is wasted through heat, but thats a different matter.
I'm guessing the latter given turbo has meant more than "ICE turbocharger" for longer than musk has been alive:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbopump
Dishonest hack? Eesh. You should consider stepping back a little :/.
Pretty sure the machines were usually shipped in "turbo" configuration.
> Was it because some applications were clock dependant?
Lots.
The original PC CPU (8088?) ran at 4.7MHz or something. Lots of early games (not only games but that was very obvious for them) were developed with a "fixed hardware" mindset and would rely on busy loop and CPU clock for the "game clock". So when you got a faster CPU the entire game would speed up.
Things got funky on an 8MHz 268 and outright screwy on a 386 or 486 (whose latter models reached 100MHz).
For this reason I'd asked Intel (as a senior programmer at one of Intel's largest CPU chip consumers) for a fixed-rate timer register when they made the 386 e.g. 1MHz free-running counter regardless of CPU speed. While they did implement other requested features (breakpoint registers) somebody screwed up the timer feature and made it full-clock-speed and accessible only thru a privileged instruction. Thus useless for applications.
That's why they often had some sort of LED or display (2x7 segments).
It basically gave you anywhere from 50% to 100% increase in CPU speed at the time.
That said for most people it would probably have done nothing since the turbo button was available on cases till the mid 90’s where it did nothing and often wasn’t even connected.
I had one on my MMX pentium PC but it did absolutely squat.
It stopped meaning "turbocharger" and now means "more powerful".