Porsche’s electric icon achieves another world record.
The Porsche Taycan has made a significant splash as Porsche’s first all-electric model, not only within Porsche’s lineup of luxury performance vehicles, but throughout the automotive industry. Combining luxurious appointments with formidable performance, high-tech innovation, and Porsche’s renowned performance-oriented engineering ability, the Taycan has demonstrated incredible capabilities for Porsche’s electric vehicle lineup, and for performance-oriented electric vehicles as a whole.
Already achieving three Guinness World Records for its unique abilities, the already-iconic Porsche Taycan has earned yet another feather in its cap, earning a fourth world record by drifting an incredible continuous distance on ice. With Jens Richter behind the wheel of a Porsche Taycan GTS, the car was able to maintain a controlled oversteer on ice, drifting 132 laps for a total of 46 minutes. With its distance of 10.87 miles, the Porsche Taycan has earned the Guinness World Record for the longest continuous vehicle drift on ice by an electric vehicle.
The previous world record was 9.2 miles, with the new record besting its distance by over two and a half miles. The drift took place with an official adjudicator from Guinness World Records on an ice track at the Porsche Arctic Center in Levi, Finland, with a drift circle that had a 59-meter diameter. Along with the other world records of the greatest altitude change by an electric car, achieved on the Xinjiang-Tibet route, the fastest speed driven by a vehicle in an enclosed building, achieved in New Orleans, and drifting 210 laps for 26.2 miles in 55 minutes at Hockenheimring, Porsche’s latest achievement with the Taycan is just the beginning of an incredible electric vehicle legacy from the legendary manufacturer.
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