Enthusiasts, this one’s for you! The highly anticipated Porsche Taycan will be coming to Malaysia next year. The move to launch Zuffenhausen’s first ever all-electric vehicle coincides with the brand’s expansion here in Malaysia – there will be four Porsche Centres spread across the country by the time the Taycan arrives.
To refresh your memory, the Taycan (pronounced tie-can) will be available in three variants, namely the Taycan, Taycan 4S and Taycan Turbo. Besides the Turbo (which is tipped to employ an advanced electrified powertrain), Porsche has revealed that the Taycan would get two permanently synchronous motors (PSM) that provide a total system output of over 600 PS or 440 kW.
With that, the century sprint is claimed to be under 3.5 seconds, while the run to 200 km/h is below 12 seconds. The EV is capable of providing a range of 500 km on a single charge (NEDC), and with fast charging on its 800-volt system, 100 km of range is available after just four minutes of charging.
The Taycan will be underpinned by the new J1 architecture for EV models, which differs from the C-BEV platform planned to underpin Audi’s forthcoming e-tron SUV, and will be future-proofed to enable a fast-charge to 80% capacity in 15 minutes. Who’s excited for this?
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I’m waiting hybrid hypercar to CKD’ed here and avoid all those taxes. Sure sell like hot cakes.
Hate to say this but fat hope that Porsche is going to let Taycan to be CKD-ed in Malaysia.
Sorry to disappoint you, the ckd hybrid incentive will be remove this year, all car price will in crease on average except national brand
Wait a second. This is a full EV car. Why would there be a model called Turbo? Am I missing something here?
The use of ‘Turbo’ is more in the interest of variant designation as the range topper rather than the performance enhancer associated with internal combustion engines. In fact, turbochargers are already present in many Porsche models today, but you don’t see the company attaching the ‘Turbo’ name to all of them.
Yes you are :)
There you go
https://paultan.org/2018/12/28/porsche-taycan-to-come-in-three-variants/
Hmm…. electric, high tech car, from a well known brand? Is this supposed to be the mythical “not using govt money, but here is Rm20mil for your interest” NNCP car project?
dream on, you think porsche will assemble in malaysia electric supercar in return for measly 20 million ringgit? try adding a couple zeroes first.
since it’s an EV will it be tax free???
Taycan will be priced RM980k and only rich will be able to buy. Geely electric car RM200k will sell like hotcakes, yeay