Electric vehicle range is how far an electric car can go before it needs to be recharged. It's important to know this so you can plan your trips without running out of battery.
Highway range is how far a car can go on the highway on one tank of gas or battery charge. It's usually more than what it can do in the city because highway driving is more steady and has fewer stops.
City range is how far a car can go in the city on one tank of gas or battery charge. It's usually less than what it can do on the highway because city driving has more stops and starts.
AAA stands for the American Automobile Association. It's a group that helps drivers with things like roadside assistance and travel planning. They also study how cars perform and how safe they are.
The Toyota Camry Hybrid is a car that combines a gasoline engine with an electric motor to save fuel and reduce emissions. It's commonly used in Australia, especially by Uber drivers.
The Lexus UX 200 is a small luxury SUV that looks nice and is easy to drive around the city. It's designed for people who want a comfortable and stylish ride.
The Ford Ranger Raptor is a tough pickup truck built for off-road driving. It has special features that help it handle rough terrain better than regular trucks.
Hybrid cars are vehicles that use both a regular fuel engine and an electric motor. This helps them use less fuel and produce fewer emissions than traditional cars.
Internal combustion engines are the kind of engines that use fuel to create power. They are what most cars have used for many years before electric cars became popular.
The Holden Ute is a special type of vehicle that looks like a car but has a truck bed in the back. It's popular in Australia for being useful for work and everyday driving.
An EV, or electric vehicle, is a type of car that uses electricity to run instead of gas. They are often seen as better for the environment because they produce no tailpipe emissions.
The Kia EV6 is a new electric car that looks cool and can drive a long way on a single charge. It's part of Kia's effort to make more electric cars for the future.
The Tesla Model 3 is an electric car made by Tesla. It's known for being more affordable than other Tesla models while still offering great technology and range.
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The BMW X5 is a luxury SUV that offers a comfortable ride and many high-tech features. It's known for being a good choice for families and those who want a premium vehicle.
The Ford Mustang is a popular sports car that people love for its speed and cool looks. It's been around for a long time and is often seen as a symbol of American cars.
The Toyota Corolla Cross is a newer type of vehicle that is like a small SUV. It gives you more room than a regular car but is still easy to drive and park.
The Toyota Land Cruiser is a big SUV that can go off-road and handle tough conditions. It's known for being very reliable and is great for families who like to explore.
The Toyota RAV4 is a type of car called an SUV, which is bigger than a regular car and has more space inside. It's known for being dependable and is great for families who need room for kids and gear.
The Toyota bZ4X is a new electric SUV that doesn't use gas and is part of Toyota's plan to make more electric cars. It's designed to be eco-friendly and has a lot of space inside.
The Toyota Tundra is a big truck that can carry heavy loads and is great for work or outdoor activities. It's known for being tough and lasting a long time.
The Porsche Taycan is an electric car that drives really fast and feels sporty, just like other Porsches. It's important because it's Porsche's first car that runs only on electricity.
The Mercedes-Benz EQE is a fancy electric car that offers a smooth ride and lots of luxury features. It's part of Mercedes' new line of electric vehicles.
The Porsche 911 is a very famous sports car that people love for how fast and stylish it is. It's considered one of the best cars for driving enthusiasts.
Dear Porsche, I'll be in touch about getting the car again next year
because we failed to do what we committed to do.
Mainly because we all know if you're a long time listener,
we all know this is the first contender for Stephen's next car.
Stephen has Mercedes Benz EQE and next year it'll come off lease.
And he has a decision to make.
Is he going to keep it and extend the lease?
Yeah. Is he going to get rid of it
because he has a great buyback offer on the table and get something new?
The something new is a big unknown.
Stephen, tell us your thoughts.
I want to know what you thought.
So it's a great thing we get to do,
especially Porsche, because it's a dealership.
They kind of hand you the keys.
What was it like to sit in first time?
Yeah, because, you know, the size of a vehicle
Yeah, it is critical in the first I can remember.
Before I got my Mercedes EV, the Taycan was one of the contenders.
I found it a little small.
It was hard to get to sports car.
It's a low to the ground sports car.
In my EQE is low to the ground and sedan, but way, way bigger than the Taycan.
So I thought, yeah, Porsche sort of were off the table.
But sitting in the car and I'm thinking, wow, this it is quite roomy.
It's it's really comfortable for like I'm a big guy.
Is it obviously small in the EQE when you sit in?
Obviously, that's a question because it is a smaller car, but it doesn't feel it.
Does not feel interesting.
I don't I never ever thought, oh, wow, this is so small.
Yeah, it was it was quite comfortable.
The size of it was great.
So that was a big tick for me.
That was important.
And of course, it's a Porsche.
So looking around, you know, let the seats and really nicely appointed.
Tram, yeah, the whole thing was just pure class.
The the displays are, you know what?
I would have loved bigger, bigger screens.
I reckon the screens in the car were a little conservative.
I reckon that's probably what I don't think Porsche is sort of an over the top
sort of brand that you remember.
They've got this.
I don't know if it was three screens, not a passenger one.
There is a passenger screen.
Well, there's four, because isn't there one for the one down low for the other?
There's only just the air con, but it's not a screen.
It's just like it's digital display now.
It's a digital screen.
It's tiny little thing.
I wouldn't count that.
It's a fourth display.
I wouldn't count it.
It's a display.
It's got the one, the curved one in front of the driver.
Yeah.
And it's got the middle or the main middle one and then the one for the passenger.
That which is I've learned to that everything's an optional extra.
I have I'll admit I have I have specced a couple up since I've been driving this
for the last couple of weeks.
Because yeah, I really liked it.
I think I texted you saying, wow, I like this.
This could be on the shortlist.
Yes.
And driving it, of course, was a dream.
It's really, really nice, nice to drive.
Very smooth.
The color of the car that we got was papaya called a papaya.
Papaya metallic.
And and I've got to say this car has probably attracted more attention
to any other car I've driven.
Yeah.
Because there be I remember my neighbor spotted me at East Gardens one time
and he says, hey, how's the Porsche?
Yeah.
And I think it's very nice.
The neighbor across the road said the same thing.
But there's $128,000 optioned up with what you're driving.
It's $167,000 because they do love an option at Porsche.
Don't know what you can have an option for everything.
The Porsche crest on the headrest is $900.
Yes.
And and there's even, of course, you get the choice.
I think the car I'm driving has the 22 inch wheels.
The passenger display is 2700.
Yeah, I wouldn't be getting that.
Yeah, Joe, Joe, Joe said Joe doesn't need to see
the speed. Well, no, Joe said to me, like, she loved it.
And she's she's driven it too.
She loves it. She's encouraging it.
So she's she asked me, she said, what color would you get?
I went, oh, OK, I would have said, what color are you getting?
What color will we get?
I should have said that.
But no, so she's she's on board.
She knows that this car is worth around the same.
Does it feel like a like a Porsche?
Does it feel a bit sportier than the than the luxury you're used to?
Absolutely.
OK, look, I've got to say, the Mercedes, still, to me,
is more on the luxury side, whereas the Porsche is more sports side.
It's a sports car. Yeah.
So in terms of luxury, I think Mercedes has got the got the company like Porsche.
And it's a decade old now in terms of it, but is dragged kicking
and screaming into the SUV space because they're a sports car company.
But they know that SUVs are selling and there's also partners,
husbands and wives of Porsche owners that want a car for the kids
so to drive the kids around.
So that's why it exists.
Yeah. Well, I noticed the only sedan they've got is the Taycan.
And they're not really a sedan.
I wouldn't call it the 911.
It's a sports car. Sports car.
But the Taycan is it's a non SUV.
OK, yeah, OK, yeah.
So the majority of their range are SUVs, yeah.
But and the fact that it's an SUV, like my wife says to me,
he goes, you know, you should have a car that's higher off the SUV.
You are getting older and hang on.
Well, here's what I want to know.
How's Doris with it?
Getting in and out.
Is it easier to get in and out for her than Mercedes?
Well, that's an I think that's a validation that SUV needs to be the next thing.
Because you're perhaps you're the most wonderful son.
You see your mum more times a week than I see my mum in a year.
And so you drive a place.
So I think her getting in out of that car is a critical thing and she she loved it too.
We bought my mum's little Mazda, which was a kind of mini SUV,
the six three or six 30 purely because it was higher.
Because at that time her mum was still alive
and it was she was going down to see her so much
she wanted to make sure she could get in and out of the car easier.
Absolutely. Now performance wise, of course, you know, amazing.
Like I think zero to 100 is like less than five seconds.
It has a 520 kilometre range.
I think around 540. This is interesting.
So the electric range is quoted in the six hundreds in the spec sheet.
OK, on the McCartnett's six fifty four.
I wonder whether that's the the NEDC instead of the WLTP, perhaps.
But everywhere I've read, it's a definitely a 500 plus range.
It's really good.
But let's talk a couple of negatives.
Yeah, there were a couple of times I got in the car
and some of the displays didn't work.
Right, I got in the car and I, you know, because you get in the car,
you approach the car and it unlocks.
The screen comes to life.
You don't often have to turn the click the on button.
Right. That's mainly the off button. Right.
So you get in the car, lights up.
You know, because I never had a I don't have an account.
I kept have to log on as a guest.
Guests, right. So that was OK.
But there were occasions where I'd get in the car.
It happened with one when I picked my mum up one time.
The middle display and the passenger display,
the middle display just said Porsche on it and didn't change.
And the passengers, one just said McCann, it didn't change.
So normally car play and I'm thinking, how can I make this work?
And nothing, nothing happened.
So that was that was one case.
There was another time where I got in and the middle screen
and the passenger screen were working driver display dead.
No, nothing. Wow. Just black.
And I stopped the car, turned it off, turned it back on again
and still nothing.
So I'm thinking I might when I drop the car off,
or maybe hopefully beforehand, I'll be going to pop into Porsche
and say, is there a way for me to reboot the car?
Because I remember with my Model S. Yes, it's a button combination.
You hold the two buttons and it reboots everything.
Yeah. And I'm wondering if that was the similar thing
you can do with the Porsche.
Maybe just needed a just a bit of a kick up the bump.
And what else? But that's the only negative.
Yeah. And just the just the expense of the car,
like everything is an option.
Yeah. Every every little detail is an option time in the configurator.
I have. Yeah. Yeah.
And what's the what's and let's be real,
what's the lowest you can get it to?
In terms of like if it's 128, which is the base price, base model,
without driverways, right?
What what are the what does it come out at
to just be satisfactory in that sense?
Yeah, I think the biggest things that put the price up
is the size of the wheels.
Like I'd go the 22 inch.
I think you're going to go get an SUV, get the big wheels.
No, mate, you are losing your mind.
You've had the drama with big wheels.
These aren't low profiles, though.
These aren't low profile tires.
These are big tires.
By getting bigger wheels, you're getting lower profile tires.
They're not the 22 inch wheels.
Yeah, slightly lower, but no way to the space
that the tire takes up is the same.
It's the profile changes.
I'll settle because you get option 20, 21 or 22.
Maybe I'll go settle the middle to get 20.
You'll have an extra inch of rubber.
Yeah, maybe the 21, which is my lucky numbers.
That could be the one.
There's that.
There's also two.
Now, I think the heads up display on this car,
one of the best I've seen.
It's really clear and really nice.
And the I noticed on the configurator was you can get
I think the heads up display standard,
but you can get like an augmented reality.
Right. It displays and all that as well.
The passenger screen is another option as well.
And see, I look at the list that's in your car
that you're driving now.
And I think a Bose surround system, that's 220 is a yes.
220, 2200.
2200, yeah.
I get that.
I don't think it depends on your paint choice,
but that's probably going to cost you some money.
I'd get a metallic color.
Yeah, so that'd be a couple of thousand.
The black and crayon is a three in leather packages,
3,300.
Is that always going to be the case?
Yeah.
22 inch wheels are 7,700.
Made it adds up quick.
But there's a bunch of little things like exterior mirrors
painted in the exterior colors.
I'd keep that wooden, but well, you know, I'd have my card
color would be a dark color anyway.
So we didn't match it anyway.
The same. Yeah.
So that wouldn't matter.
The Porsche puddle light is five hundred and forty dollars.
Panoramic roof system is three thousand dollars.
Yeah, you'd want a sunroof.
Like is there a glass roof and then you can get a sunroof?
Or is it just a sunroof or nothing?
Yeah, yeah.
And that's not even drive away.
There's nothing included.
There's nothing included.
You've got to speck it up.
So that was the other negative of it that you can't like for
one twenty eight, you're driving out with just nothing.
Just the just the steering wheel and the heads up display.
And that's it.
And you know, the funny thing that they wouldn't even have one
in the showroom that is spec is standard.
They stand no way.
Like, can I just drive for 10 minutes?
The base model car?
Yes. What's that?
Yeah, yeah, because that's not how it works.
You don't you don't buy a Porsche off the lot.
You buy your computer.
You design and configure a Porsche.
And I need to ask you, like, what would the how long would it take
from between order and delivery?
Oh, it'd be months.
It'd be months.
Yeah, it'd be like six months.
Probably because my car's lease on the Merc is up in August.
I think you need to have
to be getting ready Monday when you take it back.
You need to be going just to kind of a ten minute conversation
with it with it with a rep.
Yeah, fair.
But just for basic questions, like what is the time between order
and for shipping and configurator and stuff like that?
Because it could be huge.
Although I did get I did.
I told you I got stopped by the neighbors,
but there was some bloke stopped me about the color.
He says, mate, that color is amazing.
What color? I like it.
I think it stands out.
Yeah, it wouldn't be what I would choose.
I don't mind it having it driving it,
but it's not what I would choose.
Although the guy who he I mean,
my mum would park in to get a coffee somewhere.
And the guy goes, oh, mate, what's that color?
That's amazing.
And then I remember that it's papaya, their papaya color,
which if you're a McLaren fan, McLaren call themselves.
We want to talk about papaya rules today.
That's interesting.
OK, so can we can we say for now on the list?
Absolutely.
On the short list.
Well, I'm glad I'm on the short list.
I'm super glad about that.
I'm going to try to narrow it down to four or five cars.
Yeah, probably on your Penelope.
Probably four.
And that'll be that.
That's definitely on one of the four.
Do you know what is it?
Have you got any sense of the other three?
Because I don't know what the other three are.
The other three or the other thing you got?
Look at it.
Mercedes have it.
Well, Mercedes have a new electric SUV
coming out next year as well.
I think the Mercedes CLA.
The CLA is the other one.
Yeah, the CLA electric.
The CLA of the size.
Yeah, it's a bit smaller because, you know what?
I don't have many people in my car.
So having a CLA, which is smaller than my car now,
that would do me.
Well, interesting.
One of the complaints in reviews about the McCarny
is the back seat's quite small.
It's like how many times do you get on the back seat?
I had my I picked Mario up the other day
and he sat in the front.
My mum was in the back.
No problem.
She was fine.
It was it was pretty roomy.
We need to find another brand
that we can get Steven into outside of Mercedes and Porsche.
I'm thinking I'm going to find you an Audi to look at.
OK, we've given a couple of hours.
I know, but I want you to see the current new generation
and see what we can find there.
The electric SUV.
And is there any chance that you'll consider a new brand?
Yeah, I would.
I would.
What have you got now?
You've got the Zika 7X.
And that's pretty nice, isn't it?
I'll talk about it in a couple of weeks.
But I'll tell you right now.
I love it.
Yeah.
But and you'll save a lot of money.
But the electric doors are driving me insane.
It's got a push button.
The doors open themselves, which is a wonderful gimmick.
Present.
Can I just can I just shut the door?
No, they open all the way.
You can choose how far they open.
But is there a handle though?
There is a handle, but it never comes out.
And I've looked through the setting.
I'm going to talk to Zika about it.
But that's that's next week's review.
Probably in a couple of weeks.
We've got a bit.
We've got a bit to get through next week as well.
Yeah. All right.
Well, it's on the list, folks.
The Porsche McCarn, Steven Fenwick, maybe an owner.
You never know.
You're lucky in a big city.
And just for the record, Porsche was my dream brand.
That's why I love it so much.
It was a dream brand.
And Joe knows that too, Joe.
That's why Joe's been so encouraging with this.
I know I've always wanted a Porsche.
That's awesome.
She's also a big fan of Louis Vuitton.
And so if you don't think you have to get some LV
when you get a Porsche, you're mad.
Yeah, I'll say look, I came with the car crash.
Yeah, that's great.
To like story electric cars, we'd love to hear from you.
You don't have to be buying a Porsche.
You could be buying a Zika.
You could be buying an MG.
You could be buying a BYD or an Aeon, whatever
that new brand that's coming in next year will be.
There's a lot of cars out there.
We don't care what you're buying.
We'd love to talk about it.
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Steven, let's do it all again next week.
I will see you then.
I'll be right here.
OK.
About this episode
Trevor Long and Stephen Fennig dive into the discrepancies between electric vehicle (EV) range claims and real-world performance, comparing it to similar issues with petrol cars that received little media attention. They discuss the Australian Automotive Association's findings that many petrol vehicles also underperform against their lab-tested fuel economy figures, highlighting a bias in reporting. The episode also covers recent EV sales data, noting significant sales for BYD and a decline in Tesla's numbers, while exploring the implications of these trends for the EV market.
Here's an interesting one, the range, or "Fuel Economy" of ICE and Hybrid cars has been questioned by the AAA - the same body that recently questioned the advertised range of a few Electric Cars on the market.
But just how has that been reported? Fairly? We think not.
An update on Electric Car sales, and the Number 1 Car might surprise you!
And how is Stephen enjoying the Porsche Macan - is it an option?
We'd love to hear from YOU - so get in touch, 0477 657 657 any time!
