The Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo sets an unusual record
This page is translated from the original post "La Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo bat un record… insolite" in French.
- 16/09/2023 20:55
The electric hunting break from Porsche, the Taycan Cross Turismo, set a new altitude record for a decarbonized car.
The advantage of an electric car is that you don’t need to worry about altitude and the resulting oxygen scarcity. Oxygen levels decrease by about 1% every 100 meters of altitude. Simply put, a car at 1000 meters altitude loses 10% of its power, 20% at 2000 meters, and so on.
Therefore, it is worth appreciating the feat achieved by Porsche, which conceived a 2783 km road trip that took its Taycan Cross Turismo from China’s lowest natural point (-218.845 meters) to the summit of one of the highest roads in the world (Hongtu Daban Mountain at 5,355.134 meters).
With a total altitude variation of 5,573 meters, the Porsche Taycan experienced nearly 100 degrees of temperature change on the road, from ice to asphalt heated to 70°C. One of the key lessons of this adventure was the efficiency of energy regeneration, which during descents of cols at more than 4000 meters could recover more range as the kilometers went by.
Early 20th-century expedition-style exploits still seem relevant in 2023, but electric vehicles still need to gain more legitimacy. Old clichés die hard, but Porsche appears very confident in its intrinsic qualities.
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