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Porsche unveils Taycan electric car: up to 280 miles of range and as stunning as the concept

Porsche has unveiled today its highly-anticipated first all-electric car, the Taycan, and it delivers on most of our expectations, except maybe for the price, with a range of 280 miles (WLTP) and impressive performance.

A lot of the specs have already leaked over the last year, but now we have all the official information from Porsche.

Here are the main specs:

  • up to 450 km (280 miles) (WLTP)
  • 93.4 kWh battery pack
  • 270 kW peak charge rate
  • 265 kW regenerative braking capacity
  • Two-speed transmission
  • 2.8 seconds 0-100 km/h (62 mph)
  • Top track speed of 260 km/h (162 mph)
  • Peak power 560 kW (761 PS)
  • 1,050 NM torque

The final design of the production vehicle is probably the biggest surprise of the unveiling.

We have seen camouflaged prototypes for the past few years, but now the automaker has fully unveiled the production Taycan and it looks very similar to the original Mission E concept, which won awards for its design.

The design certainly doesn’t have any compromise in terms of styling and yet, it enables an impressive 0.22 drag coefficient.

For the interior, it is built around a twist on the battery pack skateboard platform to enable the driver, passenger, and even rear passengers to sit very low to the ground:


The low seating position gives a very sporty feel to the vehicle from the inside out.

They did a particularly good job to blend all the interior screen into what almost looks like a single interface.

Here are a few more shots of the vehicles they had the Niagara Falls unveiling (they were fully equipped Turbo S with the optional passenger screens:

You shouldn’t expect too much cargo space, but it is decent for a sports sedan.

They managed to optimized the trunk opening and there’s also a smaller hidden section just big enough for the 11 kW charging cable

There’s also a front trunk space or “frunk”. It’s decent in size. We are not talking about Model S sizes, but it definitely has more space than other EVs of similar sizes like the Jaguar I-Pace.

All the specs and features announced today are for the higher-end version of the Taycan, which are the Taycan Turbo and Turbo S.

They start at $150,000 and you can add tens of thousands in options.

Less expensive versions of the vehicles are expected to be released next year, but the Turbo and Turbo S are the ones available to order now.

Source: Electrec

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Porsche shows off the interior of its first EV ahead of September 4th reveal

Porsche has shown the first photos of the screen-laden cockpit of the Taycan, the company’s inaugural electric vehicle and the tip of the spear of parent company Volkswagen’s attempt to distance itself from Dieselgate with a massive push into EVs.

While other modern Porsches feature a mix of touchscreens and touch-sensitive control panels, the Taycan will take that idea a step further. The car can be optioned to have as many as three screens strewn across the dashboard as well as two touch-sensitive panels for controlling things like the heat and air conditioning.

Two touchscreens come standard on the Taycan. The first is the digital instrument cluster, which measures 16.8 inches and is curved so that it can be easily viewed through the steering wheel, with touch-sensitive portions on the outer edges. There’s also a 10.9-inch central display where the driver can tinker with the car’s settings or call up the integrated Apple Music app. Porsche will add a third touchscreen in front of the passenger for an as-of-yet undisclosed price.

Drivers and passengers will be able to access the car’s climate settings through a more modernized version of the touch-sensitive center console panel Porsche has used in cars like the Panamera and the Cayenne. The 8.4-inch touch panel uses haptic feedback to let users know their touches have registered. Another 5.9-inch touch panel can be added to the back of the center console for rear passengers, too.

Ivo van Hulten, Porsche’s director of interior design style, says in the company’s press release that the Taycan’s interior was designed using a “less is more” approach. While there’s certainly less going on than in, say, the interior of a modern Mercedes-Benz, the Taycan is no exercise in minimalism. There are fewer physical buttons than in most Porsches, and the company is introducing a voice control feature that can be triggered by saying, “Hey Porsche.” But it’s still a far cry from the stark design of something like the Tesla Model 3.

Porsche hasn’t been shy about the Taycan’s price (it will start around $90,000) or some of its specs (it will use 800-volt battery technology to allow fast charging of up to 350kW, and have somewhere between 200 to 300 miles of range, for example). But the German automaker will release the full details when the car is unveiled on September 4th, which is almost four years to the day since the car was first teased as the Mission E concept.

Source: TheVerge