The taycan makes the plaid feel like an antiquated pos. No joke. It’s slower but running 10.3 on the street is plenty for anyone. The Porsche build quality may be the best in the business. I thought the Aston interior was until this.
Bought a Taycan Turbo S
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Yes.
Beautiful ride dude. Love that interior too. Interesting that this is about 1.2 seconds faster in quarter and about 20 MPH from the plaid.
You know that dude went missing right after that race? There’s a bunch of news articles and videos about it.
No Hiroshima Hairdryer = not a Turbo. Bet it’s quick as fack though off the line
Should’ve kept the ZR1.
When you grow up and make big boy money , you do what the Fk you want.
Damn. I thought this was an ICE vehicle.
Do they really call it turbo when it has 0 turbos??
Da fuq!?!?
Do they really call it turbo when it has 0 turbos??
Da fuq!?!?
Nope, no turbos. It's coal powered, like my vacuum cleaner.
They should have called it the Taycan Fluxmaster Stacked.
That was a wild ride! Question, is it common to see a speed limiter like that in most/all EVs?
Not sure. My plaid did 174mph limited.
This car makes 300 less ev power than the plaid but I’d guess 200mph unrestricted.
The Porsche uses a permanently excited synchronous motor. So they vary speed by adjusting frequency applied to the stator windings. The rotor, or rotating portion of the motor, uses the fixed permanent magnets. Very good design and very expensive to produce.
The Variable Frequency Drive used to vary the stator frequency has a maximum theoretical limit at how quickly it can gate it's power devices (probably an IGBT or IGCT). The VFD has a maximum practical frequency it can produce.
Oversimplification: the motor's speed is proportional to frequency applied to the stator. Synchronous RPM == (Frequency * 60 * 2) / number of poles in the motor
Without getting into Vector control theory, the speed of the motor is physically limited by frequency applied to it. This is what will alway set the speed limiter in an EV. Increasing the speed (frequency), or over-modulation, means increasing the limits within the VFD but that comes at a loss of efficiency, increased heating, and reduction of reliability of the power device. IGBTs and IGCTs have a finite number of times they can reliably turn on and off.
In industrial applications where over-modulation is required, that usually comes with a de-rating factor for the VFD. So we up-size the VFD to compensate. Or better still, adjust motor/system dynamics so that over-modulation isn't required.
So we need to hack the VFD in the Porsche to over-modulate it to get higher speeds. Then sell it quick before the damn thing blows up.
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I'd choose that over a plaid any day if I ever went the EV route. ..
the sig under your username suggests you will one day soon
Porsche also has the coolest sounding EV...
and yes it's so stable you can drive over 160mph with one hand...lol.
and yes it's so stable you can drive over 160mph with one hand...lol.
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