Porsche Disrupts Itself with Taycan

Re:Porsche Disrupts Itself with Taycan by paganel on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @06:07AM (#20926631)

A $150,000 electric car isn’t going to disrupt anything outside of Porsche’s internal way of doing things, which while interesting isn’t anything to be excited about. On the other hand, were the Volkswagen group to announce a 25,000 euro electric Golf or a 17,000 euro electric Polo with a 400-500 km range then the excitement would be through the roof and that would really be a world-changing event.

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Re:Porsche Disrupts Itself with Taycan by haspok on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @06:29AM (#20926718)

The new Porsche is interesting for the same reason that an S-Klasse Mercedes is interesting: it showcases cutting-edge tech (such as the 800V battery that allows extra-fast charging) that will eventually trickle down to lower classes of electric cars.

The only place where VW is really trailing Tesla (once the ID3 will be released) are the chargers, let's hope this situation improves in the coming years.

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Re:Porsche Disrupts Itself with Taycan by 8draco8 on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @06:14AM (#20926654)

They kind of did. They just announced VW ID3, all electric car, with roughly 400km range for 30k EUR

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Re:Porsche Disrupts Itself with Taycan by paganel on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @06:27AM (#20926705)

Very interesting, I wonder why this announcement didn’t make the front page of HN instead of a car that can only be purchased by those that win the start-up lottery or by the FANG employees.

Still a little bit pricey, 30,000 euros is already Tiguan (i.e. CUV) territory while ID3 is just a hatchback, I’m curious how the market will respond.

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Re:Porsche Disrupts Itself with Taycan by reitzensteinm on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @07:08AM (#20926914)

It didn't make the front page. It's now been flagged and has disappeared.

HN is full of Tesla fans, not EV fans, and the voting patterns generally bare this out.

As an EV fan myself, it's a little annoying.

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Re:Porsche Disrupts Itself with Taycan by noelwelsh on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @06:20AM (#20926682)

This is the real story. The Porsche might be exciting for the small group of people who care about such things but the VW ID3 has the potential to make a significant change in world's driving habits.

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Re:Porsche Disrupts Itself with Taycan by threeseed on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @06:31AM (#20926727)

I wouldn't underestimate the importance of the Taycan.

It's the first EV that has shown it is possible to make an uncompromising track car with an electric drivetrain. Tesla proved you could make a fast car but not a reliably fast one.

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Re:Porsche Disrupts Itself with Taycan by threeseed on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @06:27AM (#20926702)

You completely missed the point.

Porsche isn't a mass market brand. It's target audience are mostly people who either (a) take their cars to the track, (b) want to one day take it to the track or (c) are attracted to the company's lineage in track racing.

And so the Taycan is unquestionably targeted at their audience and is designed to be disruptive to their core business. Not to anyone elses.

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Re:Porsche Disrupts Itself with Taycan by paganel on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @06:30AM (#20926723)

Which is exactly what I said, that is that this is interesting news for Porsche aficionados not for the general HN audience. As people pointed out to me in different comments, VW Group has also announced the launch of a electric Golf-like model they call the ID3, at 400km and costing 30,000 euros this should be a market changer.

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Re:Porsche Disrupts Itself with Taycan by avar on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @06:31AM (#20926731)

If they were to do that we'd have armchair commentators on HN complaining that it doesn't mean anything because a $15k Ford Fiesta is still way cheaper. That we have Volkswagen selling a pure EV via a flagship luxury brand is a major milestone.

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Re:Porsche Disrupts Itself with Taycan by martin_bech on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @06:16AM (#20926661)

VW just announced a 30.000 euro electric Golf called the I.D 3.

The Taycan, and upcomming electric Porsches are a great sign that Porsche is going fully electric sooner rather than later. If on the premiere performance brands goes fully electric, others will follow.

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Re:Porsche Disrupts Itself with Taycan by raaaaraaaa2 on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @06:19AM (#20926676)

funny how VW ignores success of Toyota hybrids. Their marketing is now like - let's skip hybrids let's drive electric cars :D

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