Set Cannonball record by electric car in Taycan

What is a cannonball?

"Cannonball" is how fast you can travel the distance of 4,500km from the Red Ball Garage in NY in the United States to the Portofino Hotel in LA in California. That is, the one that competes for the time it took to move.

The shorter the time it takes from the starting point to the goal, the better.

The record of this cannonball, going back to the past, seems to have started in 1915 with a car called Stutz Bearcat, which was recorded as "271 hours 15 minutes".

271 hours! I guess I just kept running.

It's not as easy to count time with a smartphone as it is now, and the number of gas stations and, more specifically, the road conditions are completely different from now, so in the last 271 hours and 15 minutes from New York to California. I think it was a tremendous achievement just to move by car.

And while this record was updated to "53 hours 30 minutes" using the Graham-Paige model 57 Blue Streak 8 in 1933, it will be the record of "26 hours 38 minutes" by Audi A8 in 2020. Has been made.

The fastest Cannonball record at the moment is "25 hours 39 minutes" by the Audi S6, after Ford Mustang set a record 43 minutes faster than this record.

From New York to Los Angeles, 25 hours and 39 minutes is really amazing (Isn't it possible to calculate the distance and the time it took later, and obviously overspeed? Even if I don't meet, it doesn't matter because there is no concrete evidence of where and how many kilometers it was? I don't really understand that area ^^)

Cannonball recording by electric vehicle

And, these records were made by so-called gasoline-powered cars, but in December 2017, there was a person who finally tried "Cannonball in an electric car".

The car that was used at that time was the Tesla Model 3. The record was "50 hours 16 minutes".

The difficulty of cannonballs in electric vehicles seems to have been particularly in the charging network. Well, that's right. Obviously less than the number of gas stations.

After the record for this Model 3 was made, in July 2019 another challenger also used the Tesla Model 3 to break the record in "48 hours 10 minutes".

When I thought about it, the same challenger who set this record tried again in the same year and further shortened the record to "45 hours 16 minutes". The fact that I tried again immediately and shortened the time by 3 hours probably made me realize that there is still something I can improve during the first try.

And finally!

This time, from December 31, 2020, a person who will challenge this cannonball with an electric car has appeared again ...

That people used it, yes, Porsche's Taycan 4S.

The record is "44 hours 26 minutes", which is the fastest cannonball record by an electric vehicle, which was achieved while mainly using Electrify America DC quick charging. It seems that the goal was just the evening of New Year's Day 2021.

During this challenge, it seems that Taycan had some problems, and for some reason the car navigation system began to recognize that "Taycan is in Ohio" (even though it is not in Ohio). In other words, it seems that the car navigation system (GPS) was not working properly.

This was a very bad problem when trying to challenge the Cannonball, and finding a charging station seemed to be a challenge. Of course, there are smartphones in this era, so I used that navigation system to get through.

In the cannonball by electric car, it seems that there were efforts such as shortening the charging time by using the head to "where and how much to charge" and "warming the battery before charging (charging speed increases)". is.

Regarding the time reduction by this "where and how much to charge", in other words, when comparing "time to charge from 90% to 100%" and "time to charge from 20% to 30%", Taycan's charging is It seems that it took less time to charge from 20% to 30%.

Therefore, from the current charging station, decide the charging station to stop by next, consider the distance to that point, the remaining amount of charge required to that point, the amount to be charged at the next station, etc., and "charge" as much as possible. It took less time to run. "

It's hard to keep running while considering such things for 44 hours ... Well, that's why it's a challenge ^ ^

Even so, being able to move in a shorter time than Tesla while using the charging facility that Porsche Taycan can use instead of Tesla's supercharger station also appeals to the richness of Porsche's charging network. It seems that Porsche in North America also answered that it was happy about this (* However, it is annotated that it is not acceptable for things that may not comply with the law etc.).

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