Porsche Taycan Saloon

440kW GTS 93kWh 4dr Auto [22kW] [5 Seat] [2024]

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.