Porsche has announced it has manufactured the 100,000th Taycan electric sports car. This is a huge milestone for Porsche in the electrification journey of the brand.
The 100,000th Taycan EV from Porsche was a blue Turbo S model that is to be delivered to a lucky customer in the UK.
Porsche reported the milestone this week by stating and quoting Taycan line boss Kevin Griek:
“The milestone car left the assembly line about three years after production first started at the main plant in Zuffenhausen in September 2019. The Neptune Blue Taycan Turbo S is destined for a customer in the United Kingdom.
“We are very pleased to have reached this milestone in production history so quickly – despite the recent challenges posed by the semiconductor shortage and the volatile Covid situation. With the Taycan, we have made a decidedly successful start in the electric age.”
This model has been significant to the growth of the brand globally and here in Australia.
To date in 2022, Porsche has sold 412 Porsche Taycans to Australian customers – as many if not more than its fossil fuel brand equivalents. This has been in the absence of other performance luxury sedans like the hotly anticipated Tesla Model S.
The success of the Porsche Taycan has led the brand to push forward with its electrification plans sooner. It has set a target of 50% electrification of the models by 2025, pushing the vehicles towards 80% fully electrified by 2030.
On the back of hitting this new milestone, Porsche also noted the Taycan that has been driven the furthest, a 4S variant owned by Jean-Hubert Revolon from Lyon, France. That EV performance model has just over 188,000 km on the clock.
Hitting 100,000 produced Taycan milestone will help with plans for the sportscar brand to continue to electrify other models, including the Macan SUV.
Australian Porsche fans love the Macan SUV. Having sold over 2,363 in 2022 so far, an electric version of that SUV would be very popular. Sadly, this has been delayed with reports out of Europe suggesting it’s been delayed until 2024 due to software issues.
More EV models from traditional brands and stricter targets mean that it’s only a matter of time before all sportscar brands including Porsche electrify.
The technology developed in these high-end performance EVs will eventually trickle down to everyday models from other brands which can only be a good thing in our electrified future.
Riz is the founder of carloop based in Melbourne, specialising in Australian EV data, insight reports and trends. He is a mechanical engineer who spent the first 7 years of his career building transport infrastructure before starting carloop. He has a passion for cars, particularly EVs and wants to help reduce transport emissions in Australia. He currently drives a red Tesla Model 3.