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The Porsche Taycan Turbo S Launches Into Our Record Books

It isn’t often we set records at the dragstrip, but we did when we tested the all-electric all-wheel-drive 2020 Porsche Taycan Turbo S. By a mere 0.04 second, it became the quickest (in time) and fastest (in speed) battery-powered electric vehicle in MotorTrend’s history of testing.

In the process, it became the third-quickest Porsche and 12th-quickest of any vehicle from ’s decades of quarter-mile instrumented testing of production cars. It even bumped a (991.2) 911 Turbo S down a

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