Porsche Taycan EV is Ready for Production
Daily Slideshow: Porsche’s aims to have 50% of its vehicles electrified by 2025. The 2020 Taycan is the first full-electric move for the Stuttgart-based manufacturer. Development is moving along swiftly for the September revel and Porsche has released pre-production specs.
Name Change
Porsche has confirmed the Taycan will be released shortly. Originally designated the Mission E, Porsche has officially termed their first fully electric car, the Taycan, and has offered up the juicy details about its power output and range.
The Numbers
Porsche has confirmed that the Taycan, with its two permanently excited synchronous motors (PSM), will produce more than 600 hp (440 kW). The motors accelerate the Taycan to 62mph (100kph) in under 3.5 seconds and onward to 124 (200 kph) in just under twelve seconds. The 800-volt battery will take you and your electric Porsche 310 miles (500 km) away, and will happily be charged for another 250 miles in less than 15 minutes. Longer than a fill-up of the dinosaur go-juice, but short enough to donate to the local water treatment plant and fill yourself up with a coffee.
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Final Stages of Testing
The Taycan has officially moved onto the next stage for Porsche and has finished much of its final testing. The car is nearly ready to be officially released and moved forward into sales. The Taycan must go through the same rigorous Porsche testing that every vehicle must and then some. The first full-electric car from Porsche has to be absolutely perfect before being released. By the time these cars hit the lots, they will have gone through every possible test any journalist can think of to put them through.
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Scheduled for September
The Taycan has not yet been officially released. However, Porsche is none-too secretive about their mule cars. The test mules have been seen all over the roads and even on Porsche's own Newsroom. The car is slated to be fully debuted by September and the world will know finally, not that we don’t already, what the new full-electric Porsche will look like.
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20,000 Customers
Porsche is nearly ready to sell and has a list of over 20,000 registered customers already knocking down the doors. These are paying customers, mind you. Just for registration, a down payment of €2,500 was required. These are serious customers, and I highly doubt that Porsche will have any trouble whatsoever finding another 200,000 more.
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Porsche’s Investment
Porsche, like the rest of the VW Group, is heavily gearing up for the electric age. They are investing over $6 billion in e-mobility by 2022. They aim to have enough chargers in Europe that no electric car will be more than 100 miles away from a charger at any one time. These investments will pay off for Porsche in the long run, having an established set of chargers is key in these early days of electric cars.
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