Porsche continues to raise the bar of electric performance.
In the automotive world, the Nürburgring Nordschleife is one of the most revered, respected, and challenging tests of performance, engineering and skill, and a lap time on the feared track is one of the most irrefutable measures of excellence when it comes to both a car and its driver. As the industry’s sweeping transition to electrification enters full swing, electric vehicles are no exception when it comes to trial by Nürburging.
In August 2022, Porsche took the Taycan Turbo S to the Nürburgring to test its mettle, and with a performance package, the electric sport sedan delivered incredibly impressive performance on the track. However, the legendary 75-year-old luxury performance manufacturer wasn’t satisfied with just that, and returned with a pre-series upcoming performance-focused model of the Taycan to improve the lap time even further.
The pre-series track-focused Taycan not only became the fastest electric Porsche to take the track, but improved on the Taycan Turbo S’s lap time by an incredible 26 seconds, an immense gap in the world of racing. The lap time was 7:05.55, putting the pre-series Taycan model in the league of electric hypercars, and otherwise cementing its place in the revered realm of performance cars with low 7-minute times on the Nordschleife route.
Represented in distance, that 26-second gap meant that when driver Lars Kern crossed the finish line in the new upcoming Taycan, he was almost a mile ahead of where he was in the Taycan Turbo S during its previous record run. With this new high-performance all-electric Porsche Taycan model on the horizon, it’s already proved its incredible track-focused performance in arguably the most spectacular way possible. While we are certainly anticipating more information about this new Porsche Taycan, we already have confirmation that among electric performance cars, it’s a force to be reckoned with on the track.
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