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Taycan charge
With an 800-volt
architecture and
270kWh charging
limit (more than any
Tesla), the Taycan
fuels up fast.It was about time someone took the
fight to Tesla, and boy has Porsche
delivered with the Taycan. An electric
four-door four-seat saloon car that
slots into the Porsche range somewhere
between the Panamera and 911, this
is the EV that petrolheads have been
waiting for.
In full-fat Turbo S flavour, the Taycan
serves up a haymaker to the gut when
you step on the accelerator, dispatching
62mph in 2.8 seconds thanks to 750hp
of power with Launch Control and the
Overboost function enabled. This might
sound a touch slower than a Tesla Model
S Performance, but hey, life is more than
a game of EV Top Trumps – a couple of
seconds after launch, and as a Tesla’s
power tends to wane, the Porsche still
has you pinned into the seat. Anyway, the
German maker always was conservative
with performance figures.
Adding more drama to proceedings,
and more of it than any Tesla can serveV TESTED PORSCHE TAYCAN