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It's called a tie can and, as you'd expect from a Porsche, it's not slow. This battery-powered four-door sports car can generate a monstrous 750 horsepower and, as you would also expect from a Porsche, it doesn't come cheap. It costs £140,000, so if it's going to turn buyers away from petrol at that price, it better be a good, special time, this and I mean, a really special time. Does Porsche make possibly the best internal combustion engine cars on the planet? Expectations are high and although the Thai camera follows the familiar battery under the floor motor at each end - the recipe used by all other fast electric cars - it has to be said that this one feels a little different from the start, it feels like a Porsche, the driving position is low, the seat is just pinching my kidneys the steering wheel is familiar and so quiet that's what happens with electric cars because there is no motor in the

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box noise you can hear other noises Unpleasant noises screeching tires pulling suspension hitting potholes but they are all very well suppressed in here, in fact it means I'm complaining that the rain is too noisy today.

I have a noisy rain and beneath the surface that family electric car recipe has been further refined and, as always, Porsche has been learning from its exploits on the track. The 919 Le Mans winner used a specially designed electric motor that is smaller and more powerful than any rival and that is what appeared in this car. If it's good enough to win Le Mans, it's probably good enough for your daily commute. I mean, it's so fast. If you put your foot down, you are in another dimension and the ride comfort is excellent. This is by far the most comfortable Porsche ever created, but perhaps the biggest news of all is that this Thai model could hold the answer to the electric car world's biggest dilemma. charging time, let me explain, imagine this thing is your car battery and this is the mains cable.

Now, the lower the voltage, the lower the pressure at which you can send electricity from this to your car battery, which is how long normal cars take. It takes a long time to charge, but the Thai can run at 800 volts, double the normal amount and that means you get a lot more pressure in the pipes, which means you can fill the battery much faster. You get the idea to say it another way, look for 270 kilowatts. charger and can add 200 miles of range in just over 20 minutes 200 miles of range in the time it takes to eat a sandwich and a short break, it's impressive, isn't it?

The only problem is do you know how many 270 kilowatts? charges there are currently in the UK four four isn't much, again electric car technology is way ahead of the infrastructure and you know how long it would take to charge this if you plugged it in at home about a day and there's a There's a couple more problems with the Thai camera, starting with its size: it's not a five-series or three-series sized car, it's in the middle, which means the rear seats really aren't very big and the rear shelf is very high. I mean there must be some electrical controls underneath which means there's a little view of the pillar at the back and then there's the name because this faster can is called

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You can't give an electric car a

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charger. That badge is fake. news no, according to

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turbo no longer means turbo, now it just means very fast, so the question for the tai can turbo s is how fast is it, right? Mr. Porsche launch control electric, so I do sport plus maximum response with the left foot the brake with the right foot on the accelerator and here we go, just hit 90 and 100 miles per hour 120 100, let me be a little speechless, It's relentless, this thing will go from a standstill to the speed limit on a highway in about three seconds, if that's not fast enough for you, don't do base jumping or something, and although most electric cars after that type launch have to cool down a bit before trying again with their higher voltage and smart motors, the tai camera can do the big acceleration over and over again, wow, over and over again, that's 120 miles per hour and My kidneys hurt more again.

Still, Porsche has pulled out all the engineering tricks it can to make sure the Tai Can is like no other electric car in the corners, too. It has rear wheel steering It has torque vectoring It has electromechanical roll stabilization The result is that it goes like a Porsche runs on a track wow, this thing weighs 2.4 times that's more than a Range Rover has no right to drive like that to accelerate, stop and change direction That's right, we just did a smoker, we just did a smoker on a Porsche, I've never done that on an electric car before.

Wow, okay, now you have my attention, Porsche, you have my attention, this hasn't been done before, make no mistake. this brave new world of electric cars, the tai can is truly innovative, it slides, it's not just an incredible achievement, the work that must have been done nor is it just the best designed, best driving electric car ever made. I love, no, Thai can. It's also absolute proof that our electric future will not only be fast, but it will also be truly exciting electric drifts. I have a new favorite sport.