17 Apr 2024

Porsche Taycan Drives Through Water Following Record Dubai Rains

[gallery link="file" columns="1" size="full" ids="100384"] Filed under the “don’t try this at home” heading may be some video of cars traversing deep water after major rains in Dubai. Yesterday, the Dubai region experienced its heaviest rain since precipitation records began in 1949, experiencing 10 inches in less than 24 hours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4240hSL9fNQ&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fbuddyboss.audiclubna.org%2F&source_ve_path=OTY3MTQ&feature=emb_im...
11 Mar 2024

New Porsche Taycan GT Sets Record Laps at Laguna Seca and Nürburgring

[gallery link="file" columns="1" size="full" ids="98044"] Following its recent mid-lifecycle refresh, Porsche is expanding its Taycan lineup with a GT and GT Weissach package offering that is not only a higher performance Taycan, but the most powerful series production Porsche of all time. And, in order to kick off the launch they've gone and set the EV track record at Laguna Seca and the Nürburgring. Why is this important to Audi owners? As some can already tell you, the Taycan shares th...
7 Feb 2024

Porsche Taycan Product Improvement Revealed

[gallery link="file" columns="1" size="full" ids="97115"] The Porsche Taycan has reached its mid-lifecycle refreshening, and that's most interesting to us for a number of reasons. First and foremost, Taycan is based on the same J1 architecture Audi used for its e-tron GT and RS e-tron GT offerings. Frankly, their co-development is markedly closer than other shared platforms such as Macan/Q5 or Cayenne/Q7/Q8. Finally, the EV market is evolving and shifting so quickly, just what sort of changes...
2 Feb 2024

Updated Porsche Taycan Suggests 360-Mile Range for Audi e-tron GT

[gallery link="file" columns="1" size="full" ids="96810"]   Audi hasn’t revealed their mid-lifecycle product improvement for the e-tron GT / RS e-tron GT just yet, but it’s only a matter of time now that Porsche is sharing details of the updating for the GT’s platform-mate Taycan. Notably, Porsche confirmed today in a press release that range would bump to 587 km based on real world testing of the car on California’s 405 and 5 expressways. That converts to 364 miles. Is th...
2 Jan 2024

Porsche Taycan Resets Nordschliefe EV Record

[gallery columns="1" size="full" link="file" ids="94932"] Editor’s Note: Here on this Audi-focused platform, we still take great interest in watching the advances of cars that share Audi DNA. In the case of the Porsche Taycan, it’s a J1 platform mate for the Audi e-tron GT and RS e-tron GT. So, achievements such as a Nürburgring lap record for the Taycan and its preproduction compnonents certainly bode well for the GT. [gallery columns="1" link="file" size="full" ids="94930"] [source: Po...
27 Dec 2023

Spy Photo: Porsche Taycan Sport Turismo Facelift

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="94632"] We have some new photos showing the updated Porsche Taycan in the Sport Turismo version driving around in winter wonderland with basically no camouflage. This gives us a good look at the new front end design, the revised rear as well as the rear light graphics. The front end might have lost some of its own identity but the facelifted version is looking more in harmony with those new head lights and re-styled front bumper. [gallery link="n...
Wed, Dec 27 , 2023 Bill
18 Sep 2023

Spy Photo: Porsche Taycan Turbo GT

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="90105"] We knew for a while that Porsche is working on a hotter version of the Taycan Turbo with first spotting done by CarPix last year. And that model, that we like to call Turbo GT even if its not confirmed by Porsche, was spotted again around the Nürburgring. This time the prototype had no camouflage at all , except for a little sticker hiding the name at the back. The fact of the “no camo” gives us a better look at the new designed head...
Mon, Sep 18 , 2023 Bill
25 Oct 2022

Spy Photo: Porsche Taycan and Taycan Sport Turismo Facelift

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="78148"] Porsche is not just working on a hotter version of the Porsche Taycan but there is also a refresh in the works. We spotted three prototypes going out from one of the Porsche suppliers this evening, two Taycan and one Taycan Sport Turismo, all with some camouflage. [gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="78130"] All of them have a covered up front bumper hiding a new design and the two sedans also have some camouflage on the rear...
Tue, Oct 25 , 2022 Bill
20 Oct 2022

Spy Photo: Porsche Taycan GT?

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="77886"] Is Porsche planning an hotter Taycan GT model ? In the early misty morning, the Nürburgring track is closed due to the fog when suddenly a strange Porsche Taycan comes by. We are outside the Porsche test facility close to the Ring when the mysterious Taycan appears. As we can see its pretty wild looking with the modified front bumper with side sills and the big wing at the back. [gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="77882"] S...
Thu, Oct 20 , 2022 Bill
28 Dec 2020

Video of the Day: Audi RS 6 Avant vs Porsche Taycan vs Porsche 911 Turbo vs Tesla Model S P100D vs Tesla Model S P90D vs Tesla Model S P85D

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="56735"] words: Bill, video: Motor1.com Motor1.com had a little fun pitting two ICE cars up against the electric competition on a runway in Turkey: a C7 RS 6 Avant and a 2010 Porsche 911 Turbo in one corner and a Porsche Taycan Turbo, a Tesla Model S P100D, a Tesla Model S P90D, and a Tesla Model S P85D in the other. They took these vehicles through a 1000 meter drag race, a rolling race, and a brake test...standard fare it seems these days...
Mon, Dec 28 , 2020 Bill
16 Apr 2020

Could Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo Mean Chances of e-tron GT allroad?

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="46029"] Editor’s not: this originally was posted to our sister site, e-tron connect Though most of us sit grounded due to pandemic quarantine, this hasn’t stopped our spy photographer sources. Some of the recent images they’ve sent over are those of the Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo. Shown just a few years ago in concept form, the Cross Turismo offers the off-road wagon treatment to the Taycan sedan. And, because the Taycan shares the same J...
Thu, Apr 16 , 2020 Bill
10 Sep 2019

Electrify America’s Open Network Of Ultra-Fast DC Chargers: First To Charge An 800-Volt EV Battery At 270 Kilowatts

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="33674"] source: Electrify America Electrify America, LLC and Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (PCNA) celebrated the first time the Electrify America DC fast charging network was used nearly to its full potential. On September 4, the day of the global launch event, a Porsche Taycan, with its 800-volt architecture, charged at Electrify America’s Bloomsburg, PA charging station. The vehicle charged at a maximum power level of 270 kilowatts, ...
Tue, Sep 10 , 2019 Bill