I'm kinda bummed they're going with the trend of "touchscreen all the things" for the interior. They even have an option for an addition touchscreen above the glove box.<p>The UI itself looks fine and I understand that a touchscreens make it easier to iterate the interface. I just wish that they had physical controls for certain things like the AC. Using the voice control to say "Hey Porsche, increase the driver side temperature by 2 degrees" is just awkward.
This is pretty much what everyone expected to Porsche to do, especially with how they've been pumping out Macan's, Cayenne's and Panamara's. It's a vehicle which will sell based on the perception that Porsche builds high quality performance vehicles, which is at least marginally true, although things like this continue to stray from that.<p>Really, I'm only surprised Porsche is letting their brand be diluted even further, when they could have had a car like this sold under the Audi label instead. That would also have allowed for a much more reasonable cost comparison between this and the Tesla S, since you can get one of those for well under 100k, and the Audi brand has a much wider price spread than the Porsche lineup.
That price is gnarly and the comparison chart at Tech Crunch is pretty eye opening: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/04/porsche-taycan-vs-tesla-model-s-spec-for-spec-price-for-price/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/04/porsche-taycan-vs-tesla-mo...</a><p>It would be great if they can sell 25k/year in the US like the Model S. No chance of that until they introduce the lower priced variants presumably next year. I'm skeptical of their commitment to actually sell EVs though so I hope this isn't a case of 'Porsche doesn't see enough demand, so we aren't going to make a cheaper EV'.