Porsche Taycan

The Porsche Taycan is one of 181 Porsche models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 2019. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Porsche Taycan properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Tesla Tesla Model Y, the Tesla Tesla Model 3, the Kia Kia EV6 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Porsche Taycan reads like this: the record lists its engine as 2× AC synchronous electric motors; quoted output is 300 kW (402 hp) – 760 kW (1019 hp); kerb weight is recorded at 2140 -; drive goes through 1-speed direct-drive (front 8.05:1) / 2-speed automatic (rear; 16:1 and 8.05:1); the layout is Rear-motor, rear-wheel-drive (Taycan) / Dual-motor, all-wheel-drive (Taycan 4, 4S, GTS, Turbo & Turbo S). Worked together, those figures give roughly 140 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Porsche story

Within Porsche's own catalogue the Porsche Taycan sits alongside the Porsche P1 (1898), the Porsche Type 12 (1950), the Porsche 356, the Porsche 356 C. The record names the successor = as its predecessor and the sp = uk as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Emiel Burki and Mitja Borkert under Michael Mauer. Assembly is recorded at Germany: Stuttgart.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Porsche Taycan costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.