The Porsche Taycan Is The 'Ring's Fastest Road-Legal EV

Porsche has set a new benchmark for road-going electric vehicles at the Nurburgring - anyone want to try and beat it?
The Porsche Taycan Is The 'Ring's Fastest Road-Legal EV

Not content with having the fastest overall lap time at the Nurburgring with its 919 Evo, Porsche has just bagged another record at the Green Hell.

It strapped test driver Lars Kern behind the wheel of its new Taycan electric saloon, which yielded a 7min 42sec lap record. Strangely, Porsche is merely dubbing it the fastest ever time for a four-door electric car, but so far as we can work out, this also makes it the Nordschleife’s fastest road-legal EV. After all, despite Nio’s insinuations to the contrary, the EP9 is not a road car.

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Even with the Nio taken out of the equation, however, the Taycan is rather short on competition at the German track. Neither the Tesla Model S P100D nor Model 3 Performance have been sent around there for a fast run, be it by official means or via a third party like Sport Auto.

That being the case, this is Porsche setting a benchmark. It’s Stuttgart saying ‘come at me bro’ to an incoming generation of fast electric cars. We can’t wait to see who takes up the gauntlet first.

The Porsche Taycan Is The 'Ring's Fastest Road-Legal EV

We’ll have to wait a few weeks until the Taycan’s Frankfurt debut to get all the gory details, but we do know that the range-topping version - which is presumably the car fielded for this lap - will be good for around 600bhp. Curiously, it’s expected to be called the Taycan Turbo, despite the obvious lack of, y’know, a turbo.

The company recently revealed interior shots of the Taycan, showing a cabin which will look familiar to the Porsche faithful, despite being heavily loaded with screens.

Comments

Emil Klotz

Is it me or it sounds good?
Not as good as a petrol car but better than every other EV

08/26/2019 - 15:10 |
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Owen Major

Anyone else seeing the Lynk and Co 03 video and link instead of the Taycan?

08/26/2019 - 15:25 |
3 | 0

Fixed!

08/26/2019 - 16:08 |
3 | 0
Lord Saucius The Divine

I love how spaceship-like it sounds!

08/26/2019 - 18:26 |
1 | 1
RWB Dude

YAY GO PORSCHE

08/26/2019 - 20:03 |
1 | 0
Lord Saucius The Divine

In reply to by RWB Dude

YAAA!!!!

08/26/2019 - 23:05 |
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Stefan 9

And that’s 2 seconds slower than the 300 hp fwd latest Renault Megane RS which did it in 7:40.5 . I seriously expected the 600 hp taycan with low center of gravity to be maybe even under 7:30.

08/26/2019 - 20:04 |
16 | 0

What about the weight ? The Trohpy R weighs 1300 kg, what about the Taycan ? More than 2000 kg i guess.
It’s fair imo

08/26/2019 - 20:53 |
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Low top speed remember

08/27/2019 - 14:49 |
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EVs are pretty good in accelerating between speeds of 0 to like 200kmh (in terms of speed, also in terms of jerk - rate of change of acceleration, etc)

Everything apart from that - ICE dominate, mostly because of weight. ICE cars are lighter and therefore handle corners better (despite centre of gravity), brake better. Also have higher top speeds and often due to gearing better acceleration above 250kmh.

Not to mention that some EVs (seems like not an issue with Porsche but still) struggle with overheating a bit more when driven hard

08/27/2019 - 15:31 |
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That_1_Guy

at the start of the lap, they misspelled prototype

08/26/2019 - 21:45 |
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Tomislav Celić

I have some feeling it’s not going to take long to beat it.

08/27/2019 - 05:36 |
3 | 1
deand

This is the moment when the world stops watching lap records. Ev laps :( Never seen somthing boring. Even a lap with a ford transit is more exciting to watch

08/27/2019 - 10:57 |
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