Taycan, Macan Electric, Mission X — Zuffenhausen’s electric performance program, lap by lap.
Porsche has given the 2027 Taycan simulated gear shifting, a feature its own development driver publicly dismissed less than two years ago. The system, called E-Shift, lets drivers row through eight virtual gears using paddles on the GT Sport steering wheel, with a virtual rev limiter and gear-specific drag torque tuned to mimic engine braking.…
Porsche will not build a fully electric version of the 911, CEO Michael Leiters said this week, drawing a hard line around the one car the company cannot afford to get wrong. He made the remark at an event hosted by the German magazine Auto, Motor und Sport, the 911 stays combustion and hybrid. The…
Mercedes-AMG has priced its first dedicated electric car, the all-electric GT 4-Door Coupe, starting at €154,700 for the GT 55 and €196,350 for the GT 63 in Germany. Order books opened this week in Europe, and U.S. deliveries are expected to begin late this year. The GT 63 is the most powerful road-going Mercedes-AMG yet.…
Ferrari‘s first electric car has been on the road for under 48 hours and the prancing horse is already bleeding cash. Milan-listed shares closed down 8.4% Tuesday after the Luce, a four-door, five-seat family car styled by former Apple design chief Jony Ive and Marc Newson at LoveFrom, was unveiled at a gala event in…
Porsche development driver Lars Kern set a new Nürburgring-Nordschleife lap record on May 7, 2026, posting 6:55.553 minutes around the 12.94-mile (20.832 km) circuit in a Taycan Turbo GT with Weissach Package fitted with the new Manthey Kit. A notary on site certified the time. The lap landed more than nine seconds faster than the…
Ferrari released another interior video of the Luce, its first all-electric car, as the May 2026 full exterior reveal in Italy approaches. The clip continues the brand’s three-stage rollout: powertrain details emerged in Maranello in October 2025, the interior and name landed in San Francisco on February 9, and a series of video episodes has…
The numbers landing on Michael Leiters’ desk for his first annual results press conference as Porsche CEO are brutal by any measure. Full-year 2025 operating profit fell 98% from €5.3 billion to just €90 million after €4.7 billion in writedowns tied to the company’s abandoned EV roadmap. Global deliveries dropped 10%. The Taycan sold 16,339…
The narrative around the electric Porsche 718 Boxster and Cayman has lurched in every direction over the past two years. First it was EV-only. Then reports surfaced that the whole plan was collapsing. Now a senior Porsche executive says he has already driven the electric Boxster, and it is “amazing.” That is not the language…
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