The Porsche Taycan builds muscle in a 24-hour test at Nardò

The Porsche Taycan has shown its strength in one of the toughest endurance tests. It was carried out over 24 hours at the Nardò Circuit. This test, on the high-speed Nardò circuit in Italy, saw a pre-production Porsche Taycan cover a distance of 3,425 kilometres in 24 hours, just before the model’s world premiere, which will take place on 4 September.

This distance is roughly the same as that between Nardò and Trondheim in Norway. In the sweltering heat of the track in southern Italy, the average speed was kept between 195 and 215 kilometres per hour. The electric car from the Stuttgart-based brand had to cope with temperature peaks of 42 degrees Celsius, rising to 54 on the Italian track’s asphalt.

According to the brand itself, the Porsche Taycan “has demonstrated its qualities over long-distance journeys. The test was carried out in one go, without interruptions, and the Porsche Taycan prototype only stopped for fast battery charges and driver changes”. The team was made up of six test drivers from the German brand. The guarantee test took place as part of an endurance and high-temperature test.

Stefan Weckbach, Vice President of the Taycan product line, was enthusiastic when reporting that “the car passed the ambitious endurance test without problems. Furthermore, the result achieved at Nardò demonstrates the advantages of the exclusive 800-volt technology and its high level of maturity. Before the Taycan goes on sale at the end of the year, we will have covered more than six million kilometres of testing across the planet”.

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Porsche Taycan, the first to feature an 800-volt system

The Porsche Taycan has become the first 100% electric production vehicle to feature an 800-volt system. This technology contributed to the victory of the Porsche 919 Hybrid in the 24 Hours of Le Mans three consecutive times and has now made the leap to series production.

The 800-volt technology of the Stuttgart brand has enabled consistently high performance, shortened charging times and reduced the weight and space taken up by wiring. During the endurance test at the Nardò Technical Center, high-power 800-volt charging stations from Porsche Engineering Group were used.

“The sophisticated thermal management of the Porsche Taycan was also put to the test at Nardò. Thermal management revolves around a highly efficient intelligent system for cooling and heating the high-voltage components. This prevents possible power losses due to excessive heat generation and guarantees the optimum temperature to achieve maximum efficiency during the charging process when the vehicle reaches the charging station,” the manufacturer has stated.

The new Porsche Taycan can boast not only endurance; its electric drive system is also designed so that it can use its full potential even after several consecutive accelerations in a short period of time. “At the end of last July, a pre-series vehicle accelerated from 0 to 200 km/h on 26 successive occasions on an airfield runway. The average acceleration figure was below 10 seconds. The difference between the fastest and slowest acceleration was just 0.8 seconds.”

Nardò Technical Center in Puglia, Italy

It is important to highlight that the track on which the Taycan was tested is part of the Nardò Technical Center, which has more than 20 test tracks and facilities over an area of more than 700 hectares, counts 90 automotive industry companies among its clients and employs more than 150 people. Since 2012, the test centre has been managed by Porsche Engineering Group.

These facilities were launched in 1975 with the construction of the iconic circuit and offer a wide range of options for testing at any stage of vehicle development. The high-speed circuit was built to test vehicles in extreme conditions and to make the development process more efficient. The renovation of the test centre was successfully completed in mid-July. Among the improvements made is the installation of an innovative impact protection system developed specially by Porsche Engineering for high-speed tests at Nardò. The work also included the complete renovation of the 106,000 square metres of dynamic driving test facilities.

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