At the moment, Tesla is the EV-darling, especially in terms of performance. While the Model S P100D might not be the best performance EV in the world, it’s certainly the most popular by a huge margin. However, that might soon change, as the upcoming Porsche Taycan is on its way and Johnny Smith from the Fully Charged Show recently had an exclusive opportunity to drive it. And it seems mightily impressive.
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If you aren’t in the know, the Porsche Taycan is going to be the brand’s first all-electric performance car and it’s on its way quite soon. It will use two electric motors, one at each axle, to give it full-time torque vectoring all-wheel drive. It will also have over 600 hp and 800-volt charging capabilities.
The reason why we’re bringing this up is because the Taycan is likely going to become the new EV benchmark, the car by which all other performance EVs are measured. So when BMW debuts its future electric performance cars, enthusiasts are going to wonder how it stacks up against the Porsche Taycan.
With that much power, the Taycan is capable of 0-60 mph in just a touch over three seconds. Now that’s not as brutally fast as the Tesla Model S P100D in Ludicrous mode. However, the Porsche does have a very distinct advantage. It can do that 0-60 mph sprint, with the same results, over and over and over again, without issue. Do it more than once in a Tesla and it waves a white flag, asking you to stop for fear of damaging the batteries. Not so with the Porsche Taycan, which can do that same brutally fast sprint all day long, without damaging its batteries. Why? Because it’s made properly.
In this video, Johnny Smith seems seriously impressed with the Taycan and he knows a thing or two about electric cars. While we don’t get a great look at it, because it’s still covered in a ton of camo in this video, we do learn enough about it to get excited.
When it comes out, the Porsche Taycan will be one of the very most exciting cars on the market and one of the very most impressive EVs to date. We can’t wait to see it in the flesh.
I was hoping for significantly more range. The next article should be about super charging infrastructure.
What? The Tesla can’t sprint over and over? Absolute lies. Checkout “The Tesla Racing Channel” on YouTube. That guy races a P100D all day long at drag strips all over the South and his car continually puts in 2.3 or 2.4 second 0-60 times. But then this is a blog and not reality – fake news, I guess.
What is the point of drag racing a 5,000 lb. sedan? Repeatedly?! Teslas I see invariably stuck in gridlock with 1 person on board.
tesla’s fanboys are everywhere like a damn cult… smh
CLICKBAIT ! That’s the Mission E !
Tesla Model 3 Performance does 3.2 second 0-60 sprints over and over, plus can legitimately hang on the track with the Ms. No Ludicrous needed either. Oh, and at half the price of that Porsche Taycan. The S will be getting this same battery tech for the 3 just around the corner.
For the record, it’s great that the competition is getting more serious about actually making desirable EVs, but pump the brakes on the “new benchmark” stuff. The Germans will be playing catch-up for a while.
Go and buy that low quality garbage and have fun. I will never buy something more expensive than a BMW/Audi/Merc with such a poor and immature quality and also safety…but I guess Fanboys will never see the facts anyway;)
Nonsense, I’ve had 6 BMW’s in the last decade including an F10 M5 and M3 Competition and my current P90D Tesla Model S is by far the best car I’ve ever had. It’s the only premium car I’ve owned that doesn’t have any quality issues like rattles and malfunctions (even though I put many miles on my cars). The fact that it blows the doors of any car at a stoplight and drives itself just seals the deal.
Don’t get me wrong I still love going to the performance center every now and then to throw some M3’s and M5’s around as they are great cars, but I would never trade the Tesla for one (maybe the Taycan though!).
By the time we see German volume BEV, Tesla’s model range will be a decade old, Model 3 already looks like a fleet vehicle. Most Tesla I see are daily drivers in gridlock, as far as endurance & charging go, just how long can Tesla “legitimately hang on the track with the Ms”? Apparently Tesla are going racing so we will learn soon.
You’re not wrong, but while respect needs to be given to Tesla for bringing EV’s to the masses and laying the foundation for consumer EV’s, with more marques taking EV’s more seriously, we are now passed what EV’s can do in a 0-60. What Porsche brings to the table with the Taycan is not just performance but a quality interior you would expect in any Porsche – something Tesla lacks.
While I respect your opinion, it’s just that, an opinion. Your “quality interior” is another man’s overly complicated, non-ergonomic,button and knob filled nightmare of a dashboard. The simplicity of the Tesla interior has a unique allure that many people enjoy and feel is the mark of great design and quality.
Most of us Tesla fanboys want to see Porsche and BMW put out competitive products. What we think is dumb is when articles like this are published with factually incorrect statements in them. As other posters have mentioned, Tesla has overcome the battery overhearing issue with better thermal management, so the author’s statement about the Taycan battery being able to drag race over and over because it’s “made properly” is not only false, but it assumes Porsche had overcome this problem. If it were easy, everyone would be able to do it. So far the only independently tested EV to do it is the Model 3. Once the Taycan comes out and is actually benchmarked by reputable testers and the numbers published, it’s really just optimistic statements made by a manufacturer. We all know from the diesel debacle and many others that manufacturers say alot of stuff. We should all take these statements with a grain of salt until other sources verify them.
I hope the Taycan measures up to the hype. It will be a serious competitor to the Tesla Model S P100D if it does. Have no doubt tho, the next generation Tesla Roadster will probably blow this thing away! May the best cars win!
I’m not referring to layout and design but instead, the quality of materials used which anyone can go to a Tesla forum and read about. Once you get pass the huge displays and start looking into the details of materials and craftsmanship, you can see where Tesla is lacking.
I like minimal and a less clustered interiors, which is why I prefer BMW’s interiors regardless of what people say of the aged design – everything is where they need to be and the quality is there vs. Mercedes where the design is beautiful but does not always match the quality and build (see: E-Class vs. 5 Series).
All my post was saying is the age of seeing an EV on the road has passed now that it has become the norm and big marques are now taking it seriously. I don’t doubt that the brain trust over in Germany can manufacture something to really rival Tesla, it’s just a matter of when and finding the balance of keeping ICE which still makes them money and going electric.
If the Taycan lives up to it’s numbers and assuming the price is not totally insane (it is Porsche…) I can see it affecting the Model S.
Nicely done. I like a well thought out and respectful response. I own a Model 3 and I have no quality issues. However I have heard enough issues out here to believe Tesla does continue to focus on upping their game in this area. I think they have gotten markedly better, but they do need to continue to focus on this as I think it is their biggest weakness. Elon has stated numerous times that he does want quality to be a highpoint, so I do think they will improve dramatically over time.
I think that’s what Tesla is or should be focusing on next. You can see how Tesla and other marques are going to cross where we have legitimate competition. Everyone can build cars as we know it today but lack in EV tech, where as Tesla has the EV tech but is lacking in interior.
I am waiting to get an EV but I want an EV in a car that I am familiar with and where there are no compromises where everything needs to look futuristic. Through reports, that is looking like the BMW i4.
A tin can with a video screen has “a unique allure that many people enjoy and feel is the mark of great design and quality”. If I were to rent a Tesla (if they produced enough vehicles that they were available to rent), I wouldn’t be able to pull it out of the fleet garage because THEY ALL LOOK THE SAME!!!
does tesla still have the issue of bumpers falling off when it rains ? =D
They will catch up quickly…
Those squinty-eye headlights are not very flattering on the white Taycan… Looks like it’s crying.
Fully agreed. I always thought the same thing when the Mission E came out. Looked like a girl who started crying and their eyeliner makeup started running down the face to me.
Yes, why Porsche’s 1st high-performance BEV should be ignored: headlights.
Never said to ignore it. Don’t make stupid assumptions. We’re saying the design can be off putting to some traditional Porsche design enthusiasts. With the unveiling just now, problem is solved by getting it in black or silver.
But “traditional Porsche design enthusiasts” are good with redadged VAG SUVs?! Big of you. Literally.
Where did I ever mention SUVs? Stop pulling straw man arguments. The point was an opinion on visual design. Everyone is free to have their opinions which you don’t seem to respect. Grow up.
I really like the car except that front. If they could change those headlights and make them more “Porsche-like.”
You guy realise there is still camo on it right ? Especially on the headlights and taillights. Mission E is just the concept car
You do not need to use ludicrous if you want to go 0-60 over and over. Still plenty fast. MB, Porsche, and BMW had plenty of time to raise the bar above Tesla? Why are they holding back? Still trying to show that ICE vehicles are not too slow vs EV’s?
Sure. Like Tesla are battling NHRA. Or NRA. Or pick-ups. So easy to get confused in America.