Powertrain and spec updates bring increased prices for Porsche's updated EV
Powertrain and spec updates bring increased prices for Porsche's updated EVThe Porsche Taycan has had an interesting few years in the UK. It started out as an EV superstar, used examples selling for substantial premiums over hard-to-find new cars. But then the gravity of market forces started to work again, taking the Taycan into a period of slipping residuals and apparent signs of oversupply.
Not that Turbo S buyers will get to enjoy that full output all of the time. Porsche has replaced the earlier car’s short-term Overboost function with the arrival of a new push-to-pass button, this in the centre of the steering wheel’s drive mode selector dial. This will be standard on the Turbo S, and optional on the Turbo and 4S as part of the Sport Chrono package.
Combining the rear-drive powertrain with the Performance Plus battery will dramatically improve the Taycan’s range. On WLTP numbers it is now rated to 421 miles, a huge 108-mile improvement on its predecessor, while the Turbo S’s WLTP number goes from 290 miles to 391 miles. While those figures need to be put through the usual WLTP to ‘real world’ filter - feel free to debate the numbers - journalists in the U.S.
PDDC was an anti-roll system that used 48V motors to apply torque to the car’s anti-roll bars to counter lean under cornering loads; Active Ride is a new electro-hydraulic system that uses an 800 Volt pump to direct high-pressure fluid to each corner to achieve the same effect. But not just that, because Active Ride will also be able to work against longitudinal loads, compensating for pitch under braking and dive under braking.
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