The Porsche Taycan is the best electric car on the road. VW ID.3 in second place [P3 Automotive] • CARS
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The Porsche Taycan is the best electric car on the road. VW ID.3 in second place [P3 Automotive] • CARS

26.05.2022 /

The German company P3 Automotive has created its own P3 Charging Index. It shows which electric vehicle is best suited for the road. A definite surprise for Tesla fans may be the fact that the Porsche Taycan performed best of all. Second place? Volkswagen ID.3 “under evaluation”. The results were published by Electrive.net.

The best electric car on the road? P3 Automotive: 1 / Porsche Taycan, 2 / VW ID.3 / Tesla Model 3

Table of contents

  • The best electric car on the road? P3 Automotive: 1 / Porsche Taycan, 2 / VW ID.3 / Tesla Model 3
    • The average charging power of electric vehicles is in the range of 20-80 percent.
    • Final rating

The P3 Charging Index takes into account the vehicle's energy replenishment rate, ranging from 20 to 80 percent, in one indicator – the most convenient indicator on the road, where charging power is usually the highest.

> Why is it charging up to 80 percent, and not up to 100? What does all this mean? [WE WILL EXPLAIN]

However, charging power isn't everything, so it was combined with the car's energy consumption according to the WLTP standard and adjusted according to the ADAC Ecotest data to get closer to reality values. It was assumed that the ideal situation is when the car covers 300 kilometers in 20 minutes. (+900 km / h) and requires one stop to charge for 600 kilometers.

The distance of 300 kilometers was chosen because, according to P3 Automotive, drivers stop every 250-300 kilometers (source).

Such an ideal car, which charges at a speed of +900 km / h for 20 minutes, which increases the range by 300 km when parked for 20 minutes, will receive an indicator. Charging index P3 = 1,0.

It seems that all the cars have been loaded at Ionity stations so that they can reach their full potential. For the Tesla Model 3, the charging circuit for the Supercharger v3 was taken. It is worth remembering that in Poland today (2019) there is not a single charging station with a capacity higher than 12 kW - This also applies to superchargers.

> Released Europe's first Tesla Supercharger v3. Location: West London, UK

The average charging power of electric vehicles is in the range of 20-80 percent.

Let's start with some interesting data. According to P3 Automotive, the average charging power ranges from 20 to 80 percent, respectively:

  1. Porsche Taycan – 224 kW,
  2. Audi e-tron - 149 kW,
  3. Tesla Model 3 (Supercharger v3) - 128 kW,
  4. Volkswagen ID.3 – 108 kW,
  5. Tesla Model S – 102 kW,
  6. Mercedes EQC – 99 kW,
  7. Jaguar I-Pace – 82 kW,
  8. Hyundai Kona Electric – 63 kW,
  9. Kia e-Niro-63 kВт.

The graphs look like this:

The Porsche Taycan is the best electric car on the road. VW ID.3 in second place [P3 Automotive] • CARS

Final rating

However, as we all know on the road, it's not just the charging power that matters, but also the energy consumption while driving. Given this value, Porsche Taycan is the best, second is Volkswagen ID.3, third is Tesla Model 3, but it is loaded on Supercharger v3:

  1. Porsche Taycan – Index P3 = 0,72 – 216 range km after 20 minutes of charging,
  2. VW ID.3 - 0,7 - 211 range km after 20 minutes of charging,
  3. Tesla Model 3 - 0,66 - 197 range km after 20 minutes of charging,
  4. Audi e-tron - 0,58 - 173 range km after 20 minutes of charging,
  5. Tesla Model S / X - 0,53 - 160 range km after 20 minutes of charging,
  6. Mercedes EQC - 0,42 - 125 range km after 20 minutes of charging,
  7. Hyundai kona electric - 0,42 - 124 range km after 20 minutes of charging,
  8. e-Niro - 0,39 - 118 range km after 20 minutes of charging,
  9. Jaguar I-Pace - 0,37 - 112 range km after 20 minutes of charging.

> The actual range of the Porsche Taycan is 323,5 kilometers. Energy consumption: 30,5 kWh / 100 km

Editor's note www.elektrowoz.pl: The rating may be interesting, but compared to EPA tests, it looks rather strange. It appears that Porsche was completely “wrong” in the WLTP results, which means that it reported much lower energy consumption than actual. Announcement of second place based on "estimates" because "[the company] has known all cars for 10 years" (source) rather an easy way to make fun of, rather than create a really useful rating.

But the charging curves and average charging power are interesting and worth remembering. 🙂

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