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Porsche Taycan Performance Battery Plus

Price: R2 262 000 0-100 km/h: 5,37 seconds Top speed: 230 km/h Power: 350 kW Torque: 357 N.m Energy consumption: 21,5 kWh/100 km CO2 : 0 g/km

Imbuing something as clinical as an EV with a genuinely engaging character is a remarkable feat

Gareth Dean

A stellar entry-point into EV mobility from a phenomenal brand

Nikesh Kooverjee

A sublime machine, the Taycan could just sway the most ardent EV deniers

Marius Boonzaier

“Selectrified”. On the face of it, this two-word tagline for Porsche’s first EV may look like the sort of marketing speak that initially wows when flashed across promotional videos of the Taycan spearing along a cityscape … only to fade into shortattention-span insignificance. When you look at those words in isolation – soul, electrified – they speak of both the significance of what Porsche is trying to achieve by going the EV route and the challenges it faces in doing so. Not just from a public still deeply entrenched in a culture of internal combustion motoring, but also from the dizzying benchmark set by its existing

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