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Because they are the best. I really wanted to buy a Porsche Taycan, but my friend has a 3 year old hybrid Porsche, and he can't use the charger that he used a year ago, because they updated the software version in the charging station. Also I heard that Porsche's self driving suite is dangerous even on the highway (where Tesla's makes it easier to do long trips).

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Ya, this is really it. I bought a Model 3 about 6 months ago. I spent about 3 months researching, test-driving, talking with dealerships. I had zero interest in a Tesla when I started, but I begrudgingly bought one because it was so far ahead of every other car I tried—even ones that were higher price points.

The Taycan has a standard CCS charger, it would be pretty surprising if that stopped working given how pretty much all non-Teslas have it. What self driving suite are you talking about? Pretty sure the Taycan just has active lane keeping like a tonne of other new cars.

Yes, active lane keeping. I don't know much about them, as I have a 15 year old car that only has ABS that helps with breaking, but I read that Porsche's is much worse than Tesla's suite (even if you just want to stay in the same lane)

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