All-electric Supercar
The Porsche Taycan sets the standard for all electric cars of the future.
IT’S EASY TO think of the electric car as the motoring equivalent of veganism, that it’s green, not quite convenient and yet another grand attempt at virtue signalling. But going electric only means being different, and different isn’t always a bad thing. Take the Porsche Taycan for example – the first all-electric production supercar from the industry’s traditional heavyweights.
Porsche’s €6 billion electric investment comes at a rather opportune moment, creating the perfect bump in a road to ecological doom. If Europe, for instance, can kill petrol and diesel cars by 2035 like it’s hoping to, then the Taycan is what we need for the internal combustion engine to call it a day. Unmistakably a Porsche, it manages to wrap the idea of a 911 or Panamera around a new platform. And unlike
some electric vehicles, it drives nothing like a glorified gokart. It’s graceful yet astonishingly fast (launch control will rocket you to 100km/hr in 5.4 seconds, or 2.8 if you get the Turbo S upgrade). It steers with a good amount of weight, kneading into rougher terrain with aplomb, and everything feels natural once you put the brakes on. Depending on how powerful you want it to be, top speeds will range from 230km/hr to 260km/hr.
Quick-tempered as it may be, the Taycan on the inside is practical and restrained. Luxurious, vintage and bred with a hint of the space age, it is well-equipped with all the latest gizmos that you need. The boot and legroom are decent, even for sizeable humans, and while it is built only for four, there is the option for a five-seater, if you must.