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The future of cars landed in Cyprus. This is the Porsche Taycan.

The revolutionary Taycan is the first sports car made by Porsche. A four window sport sallon which offers high performance and connection to everyday life.

Here are the first images of the electric vehicle as landed in Nicosia dealer shop. Enjoy!

The vehicle’s rear side ready to be unloaded to the dealership headquarters.

The interior design language from Porsche derives the company’s eco friendly £hand-made” vision.

The electric Taycan for the first checks before hitting the Road.

Original source: Autokinito

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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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Watch Porsche’s first electric car make an EV expert’s mind melt

Porsche started teasing its first all-electric car almost four years ago to the month, and we’ve learned a lot about it since then. Two of the biggest things left to discover about the car (called the Taycan) are what it will truly, actually, finally look like, and how it performs. We can now start to fill in the latter, though, because former Fifth Gear presenter Jonny Smith repeatedly put the new electric Porsche through its launch mode paces in a new video published this week.

If you’re not familiar with Smith, he’s an appropriate person to get the first crack at giving the Porsche Taycan a full go. Not only does he make loads of videos about electric cars on the Fully Charged YouTube channel, he’s known for taking a tiny 1970s commuter car and turning it into the world’s quickest street legal EV.

To see a guy that familiar with quick electric cars get delighted by the Taycan’s speed again and again should be a promising sight for prospective buyers. And as Smith and the Porsche reps mention again and again in the video, it’s that repeatability that the German automaker will likely focus on when the Taycan comes to market. Some of Tesla’s cars may be faster to 60 miles per hour, but the Porsche’s liquid-cooled 800V battery pack will apparently be able to dole out more electrons before the software screams uncle.

The video also offers one of the best senses of what the Taycan will sound like, both at low speeds (with its legally mandated pedestrian safety noise) and as it accelerates. It does not, however, give us any look at the interior. In fact, the seats and dashboard all appear to be covered in fabric so that viewers can’t spot any of the final details of the car that’s been years in the making. Porsche’s been quite open about the development of the Taycan over the last four years, but it looks like the company is trying to at least keep some air of mystery in the final month before the car’s official unveiling.

Source: The Verge