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Porsche Taycan Saloon
420kW 4S 93kWh 4dr Auto [75 years/22kW/5 Seat] [2024]
Porsche Taycan Saloon
Key facts & figures
- Fuel Type: Electric
- 0-62mph: 4 seconds
- Manufacturer OTR: £99,421
- Body Type: Saloon
- No. of seats: 5
- CO2 emissions: 0 g/km
- Battery Range (official): 318 miles
- Vehicle efficiency: 3 miles per kWh
- Battery Capacity: 93.4 kWh
When the Toyota Prius was launched as the first mass-produced hybrid vehicle, critics scoffed, saying it’d never catch on.
Fast forward two decades, and we're approaching the other end of the electrification transformation – an all-electric mass-produced supercar.
Let's face it, such a vehicle was something traditional petrolheads never wanted to contemplate.
But German automotive giant Porsche has demonstrated it’s got the muscle, the tech and the know-how to prove everyone wrong.
Yes, there are a handful of examples, but they’re mainly limited-in-number hypercars, which cost north of a million in most cases.
The Taycan isn't really a supercar as such. Still, it's about the closest we can get just now without spending seven figures – and proves that a genuinely electric supercar is perfectly doable by a traditional, mainstream manufacturer.
Regardless of whether you regard the Taycan as a supercar, it can outrun almost every petrol supercar that's ever existed in its fastest spec.
It has already been around for five years, unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2019, and a brand new facelifted version arrives in the Spring in 2024. Before that one arrives, let's look at the existing model.