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"Taycan spends a total of less than 2.5 hours charging on a cross-country drive, the shortest charging time to cross the United States in an electric vehicle – the benchmark being 7 hours, 10 minutes, and 1 second"

What did he do, drive 25MPH average?

It is just advertising for Electrify America (owned by VW, like Porsche), and a worthless Record without telling how long they took to drive the whole distance.

A Tesla Model S crossed the country in 42 hours and 17 minutes.

Peak efficiency is at about 40-50mph, at least for Teslas:

https://forum.abetterrouteplanner.com/uploads/monthly_2018_1...

It says on the chart km/h not miles/h!

It was about 5 days and with few details on total energy consumed.

In electric cars, there shouldn't be a huge difference in efficiency wrt to the speed

There actually is, because wind resistance goes up dramatically with speed.

... if you drive in a vacuum.

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