Daniel Pund took the Executive Editor role at Road & Track in 2020 to help re-invent the venerable magazine brand. For nearly 30 years, Pund has toiled away as a feature writer, car reviewer, editor, and columnist for every car magazine that matters (including Car and Driver and Autoweek) and a few that didn’t.
I wish I could remember where I first heard the phrase “horizontal elevator” to describe electric vehicles. Wherever it came from, I’ve been using it unattributed for almost a decade. It so perfectly describes most electric vehicles’ mundane efficiency, their bloodlessness, and the sound they make that lurks just below notice.But “horizontal elevator” doesn’t work for the Porsche Taycan. Oh, the Taycan has the smooth, silent push that other EVs do.
3 seconds at 132 mph. That’s quicker than a Lamborghini Huracán Tecnica. The Porsche generates 1.03 g’s of grip on the skidpad, exactly what a Corvette Stingray Z51 does. It stops from 70 mph in 150 feet, with no fade after multiple hard stops. And it produces only 66 decibels of sound at wide-open throttle. A Rolls-Royce Cullinan generates 71 decibels at full throttle. A decade ago, any one of those performance metrics would have been spectacular stuff.
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