Just in case you were worried electric cars were going to be boring, Porsche made the Taycan. It isn't perfect and, yes, it is expensive, but it's insanely fun.
Sure, Tesla offers the aptly named Ludicrous Mode that can launch a Model S from a dead stop to 60 miles an hour in something gut-twistingly close to two seconds. That is also not boring.But the Porsche Taycan Turbo S can get to 60 almost as fast as a Tesla and it can rip through a twisting canyon road at high speed as easily as cruising a beachfront boulevard. Except it's way more exciting than cruising a beachfront boulevard.
That's not a new idea of course, but with the mechanical simplicity of electric drive it can be done even more instantly and seamlessly than on other all-wheel-drive cars.Something I really did wish for, though, was steering wheel paddles like the shifter paddles on Porsche's automatic transmission sports cars. Obviously, there are no gears to shift in an electric car.
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