LEADING THE CHARGE

Love it or loathe it, the electric era is well and truly upon us. Escalating sensitivity over air pollution and related climate change is pushing governments to call time on the combustion engine, leading OEMs to pump billions into research and development programmes for what comes next. Don’t worry, the sun setting on the fossil fuel era doesn’t sound the death knell for car culture – as we’ve demonstrated across recent issues of 911 & Porsche World, there are many exciting reasons to embrace the next chapter in automotive history.

Porsche, of course, knows this. The all-electric Taycan shows its fondness for advanced technologies and intricate engineering, delivering familiar daily-driveable, high-performance motoring without gasoline. And while it seems as though we’re at least a generation away from a viable electric 911 in production form, California-based Bisimoto Engineering believes today’s hardware can live up to some of Porsche’s most enduring silhouettes. Even the manufacturer’s own recently revived 935 would have its work cut out keeping up with this one.

“We launched this 911 on the Toyo Tires stand at SEMA in 2019,” beams