STUTTGART’S EV RACER

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Well, this is strange: a racecar that comes with its own 45-minute safety briefing, conducted days before you’re to climb aboard. Then, just before you do, there’s another. I could describe it all to you, but the essence is that if all the dashboard lights suddenly turn red, get the heck out.

There’s some advice about how to exit in a hurry while touching either the car or the ground – never both at the same time – but the days of ejecting myself from a car like a Champagne cork departing its bottle are probably behind me, if ever. There are 900 volts of electricity in here, so I guess it pays to be careful.

“Here” is the interior of the Porsche Mission R and here’s the thing… this is a concept car, the very same one that was on the Porsche stand at the Munich Motor