[Jupiter]

OPD One Pedal Driving, the opposite would be NOPD - No OPD, right?

SIN - Sir Isaac Newton. There's a correlation between Newton's Law and the concepts of OPD and NOPD.

I read NOPD as No Pedal Drive… ie: the Flinstones shuffle!

 

[Jupiter]

NOPD is better than OPD. NOPD follows the SIN law, whereas OPD doesn't. OPD will require more energy to start a 5T weigh car from a stop than NOPD, which allows the vehicle to coast and creep, and less energy to keep the momentum.

Not sure what your initials are all about, but feel free to use two pedals if it makes you happy! It makes absolutely zero difference to efficiency, if you drive the same car in the same way, how many pedals you use. (This has been tested by independent reviewers, including Bjorn Nyland if you want to go find it out YouTube.) VW has been peddling that myth for a while, as an excuse for not allowing you to disable creep … probably because they couldn’t figure it out. Now they they have figured it out, they included it in the A6/Q6 and will probably soon be advertising it as the greasiest feature ever once they realize how much it hurts them in sales not having. There’s tons of folks, like me, who won’t buy an EV that doesn’t have true one pedal, and that’s a market they don’t want to miss out on. And I’d use it even if it was less efficient! Having to use the brake pedal now feels like a failure…

 

[Jupiter]

Q6 does? And I may be a heathen but I dont even drive in B in the Q4... I'm appreciative of how much it coasts

Q6 does, it’s the B mode now comes to a complete stop and holds automatically. Not Tesla or Polestar level of refinement, but a good first true OPD for the entire VW group. Neither VW nor Porsche yet offer it it. Downsides are you need to manually select it each time, it doesn’t remember the setting between drives, and it’s not quite as smooth coming to a stop on hills. That’s all based on a comprehensive test drive. It’s much better than B mode in the ID.4/Q4. I was originally a skeptic, but since getting a Polestar a couple years ago, I’m a full blown OPD convert and would never buy a car that doesn’t have it.

 

[Jupiter]

My Q4 lease is about to end, well, soon enough that the dreaming and scheming can start anyways. . . I have a Q4 now that I upgraded halfway through that lease from the Q4s sister the ID4 and am thinking I'll upgrade to the Q6 to get a little more polish, lux, higher on the product line, etc. when this lease ends. But that raises big questions about its brother the Macan by Porsche. Anyone able to help me out here? Am I going to have serious unresolved envy? Do you have experience with more than one of these cars? Anything and everything you can tell me is appreciated. The Porsche is really appealing but getting it optioned up puts it so far above the cost of the Q6 as to make one wince. Thanks!

The Macan doesn’t have true one pedal driving… problem solved