Porsche Mission E Shows Electric Torque Vectoring in Nurburgring Drift Testing

The Industry Pool session that took place yesterday saw quite a lot of prototypes doing their thing in the Ring, with many of these being driven in an extreme manner - after all, this is what Green Hell testing is all about.

And there's one tester that caught our eye in particular, namely the said electric Zuffenhausen machine.

As you'll be able to notice at the beginning of the video below, which documents the testing session, Porsche engineers are cutting the Mission E any slack. In fact, the testers slid the EV around the Brunnchen corner, which delivered an awesome opportunity to check out the behavior of the electron juice sipper.

Given Porsche's motorsport dedication, it's only normal for torque vectoring to be priority for the Germans, with the company's endless list of tech acronyms packing goodies like PTV (Porsche Torque Vectoring) and PTV+ (as opposed to the mechanical limited slip diff used for PTV, this piece of hardware involves an electronically-controlled LSD).

However, with the Mission E packing an electric motor for each axle, the muscle dosage for each wheel is done with ease and you can notice this based on how fluent the slide is.

Speaking of which, we'll remind you that Porsche is also considering rear-wheel-drive versions of the Mission E, among others.

For the sake of comparison, we'll also mention the 2019 Mercedes-AMG GT Four-Door drift, which awaits you at the 3:07 point of the clip (we'd also stick around for the rest of the video, though).