Photo: Chasing Cars
Back in 2015, at the Frankfurt Motor Show, German carmaker Porsche presented the Mission E, it’s first purpose-built fully electric concept. It would take the model four years to morph into a production vehicle, one we all refer to as the Taycan.
For all intents and purposes, the electric Porsche was an instant hit. In a world dominated by the Americans from Tesla, the Germans managed to come up with something even more spectacular than what Elon Musk’s company had to offer at the time.
The car was shown at first in two versions, named in the traditional Porsche style (but somewhat weirdly) Turbo and Turbo S.
The Turbo, which was the cheaper of the pair, uses two electric motors mounted front and rear that develop 625 PS (616 hp), but 680 PS (671 hp) are attainable using an overboost function with launch control. The S big brother packs the same amount of power, but the overboost gets the maximum output of the motors to 761 PS (750 hp). Since the launch, the 4S model joined the range and became the base model, pumping 530 PS (523 hp). While we're at it, you should know there's also a China-exclusive (for now) Taycan with rear-wheel drive that is the real entry-level variant.
That's what’s going on today, but what if the Taycan came to be decades earlier, say circa 1960, at a time when electric cars were nothing but a dream (we’re going to ignore Ferdinand Porsche’s P1 EV from the late 1890s)? The guys over at Chasing Cars asked this question and answered with this here rendering.
Well, first off, there’s no telling what kind of performance the electric drivetrain would have had. Because this is a rendering, and at the time, at least in our reality, EV drives were non-existent, we’re not confined to what historically happened, so we can imagine pretty much anything we like.
As for how it might have looked like, this rendering is as good as any – a weirdly-shaped four-door, with lines inspired (or copied) from the famed 356. Sure, that one was never envisioned as a four-door, hence the weird look on this thing here, but hey, it might have worked in an alternate reality.
The car was shown at first in two versions, named in the traditional Porsche style (but somewhat weirdly) Turbo and Turbo S.
The Turbo, which was the cheaper of the pair, uses two electric motors mounted front and rear that develop 625 PS (616 hp), but 680 PS (671 hp) are attainable using an overboost function with launch control. The S big brother packs the same amount of power, but the overboost gets the maximum output of the motors to 761 PS (750 hp). Since the launch, the 4S model joined the range and became the base model, pumping 530 PS (523 hp). While we're at it, you should know there's also a China-exclusive (for now) Taycan with rear-wheel drive that is the real entry-level variant.
That's what’s going on today, but what if the Taycan came to be decades earlier, say circa 1960, at a time when electric cars were nothing but a dream (we’re going to ignore Ferdinand Porsche’s P1 EV from the late 1890s)? The guys over at Chasing Cars asked this question and answered with this here rendering.
Well, first off, there’s no telling what kind of performance the electric drivetrain would have had. Because this is a rendering, and at the time, at least in our reality, EV drives were non-existent, we’re not confined to what historically happened, so we can imagine pretty much anything we like.
As for how it might have looked like, this rendering is as good as any – a weirdly-shaped four-door, with lines inspired (or copied) from the famed 356. Sure, that one was never envisioned as a four-door, hence the weird look on this thing here, but hey, it might have worked in an alternate reality.
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