This spring, Porsche will present an update of the electric Taycan. In anticipation of this, the sports car brand’s first electric car is undergoing intensive testing in extreme conditions from -41 to +53 degrees Celsius, spread across 17 countries.
Before the updated version of the Taycan arrives on the market in spring 2024, the car is currently undergoing the latest intensive “real-life” tests, after having been extensively tested in computer simulations and on test benches. The different variants of the new generation have already completed around 3.6 million test kilometers on test tracks, race circuits and roads spread across 17 different countries around the world. The cars traveled in temperatures ranging from +53 degrees Celsius in Death Valley in California to -41 degrees Celsius north of the Arctic Circle in Finland.
Porsche says that because the changes to the model are so extensive, the grueling test program is almost comparable to that of a new model. From launch, the three different body variants of the Taycan will be offered with important adaptations.
Of the 3.6 million test kilometres, 300,000 were driven in cold weather conditions and 200,000 in hot countries. In Finland, about 220 miles north of the Arctic Circle and at the opposite end of the temperature spectrum, in Death Valley, the Taycan was pushed to its limits. The Porsche development team tested, for example, the battery charging system and the reliability of the thermal management system in extreme temperatures.
2024-01-23 20:23:48
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