Porsche’s new 1,092 hp Taycan Turbo GT steals another Tesla record as its fastest vehicle yet
The new Porsche Taycan Turbo GT is an all-electric powerhouse. With over 1,000 hp and a 0 to 60 mph in 2.1 seconds, it is the fastest, most powerful road-legal Porsche of all time.
Porsche has been on a roll the past few months as it expands its all-electric lineup. After revealing the fully electric Macan in January, its first established model converted to an EV, Porsche followed it up with an upgraded Taycan last month.
The new Taycan is better in every way, with more range, faster charging, and added performance. “We are continuing this success story with the extensively updated Taycan,” head of the line, Kevin Giek, said.
Porsche included a bigger battery (105 kWh), new thermal management, and a heat pump to improve efficiency.
The new 2025 Taycan reaches “new heights in performance” with all trims quicker than their predecessors.
Porsche added features like a new push-to-pass function that boosts power by up to 70 kW (for ten seconds) at the push of a button. With up to 938 hp for a 0 to 60 mph sprint in 4.5 seconds, the new Taycan Turbo is Porsche’s most powerful road-legal car yet. That is until Porsche revealed the Taycan Turbo GT on Monday.
Meet the Porsche Taycan Turbo GT
Porsche teased the powerful Taycan Turbo GT several times leading up to its official debut Monday.
A pre-series model driven by Lars Kern lapped the Nurburgring in 7:07:55. That’s 26 seconds faster than the Porsche Taycan Turbo S Sport and 18 seconds ahead of the Tesla Model S Plaid (with track package) record of 7:25:31.
Porsche revealed the new model with Weissach Package after earning the fastest electric series production car title at the Weathertech Raceway Laguna Seca in California.
With a lap time of 1:27:87, Kern set another record. “To prove your mettle on the track, it’s not enough to simply have as much power as possible. The overall package of accelerating and braking, cornering grip, aerodynamics, stability and fine-tuning has to be right,” Giek explained.
He added that Porsche’s engineers have already done a great job with the updated Taycan, but “our new GT cars yet again clearly raise the bar even higher in terms of driving dynamics and enjoyment.”
Taking on Tesla
Porsche’s new high-performance EV beat the previous record of 1:30:30 set by a Tesla Model S Plaid in 2020.
| Horsepower | 0 to 60 mph (seconds) |
Starting Price | |
| Porsche Taycan Turbo GT (with Wessach Package) |
1,092 | 2.1 | $230,000 |
| Tesla Model S Plaid | 1,020 | 1.99 | $89,990 |
Although other electric vehicles have lapped the track quicker, they were all modified. With up to 1,092 hp (with Weissach Package), the new Porsche tops the Tesla Model S Plaid at 1,020 hp.
Tesla says the Model S Plaid can go from 0 to 60 mph in 1.99 seconds (with rollout subtracted). That would top Porsche’s claimed 2.1 seconds.
Porsche and Tesla have been going back and forth on the fastest electric production car title since the Taycan won it in 2019.
At first glance, the high-performance EV looks like a sporty Taycan. The model features a front spoiler with aeroblades and an adaptive rear spoiler. It also includes more of a “racing vibe” than the Turbo and Turbo S models.
The Weissach Package eliminates all non-track driving equipment like the rear seats to save 157 lbs compared to the Taycan Turbo S.
Porsche’s new Taycan Turbo GT and Turbo GT with Weissach Package are now available to order. The first models are expected to hit US dealers this summer.
Which one are you going with? The new Porsche or a Tesla Model S Plaid? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
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EV sales kept up their momentum in December 2024, with incentives playing a big role, according to the latest Cox Automotive’s Kelley Blue Book report.
December’s strong EV sales saw an average transaction price (ATP) of $55,544, which helped push the industry-wide ATP higher, according to Kelley Blue Book. The December ATP for an EV was higher year-over-year by 0.8%, slightly below the industry average, and higher month-over-month by 1.1%. Tesla ATPs were higher year-over-year by 10.5%.
Incentives for EVs remained elevated in December, although they were slightly lower month-over-month at 14.3% of ATP, down from 14.7% in November.
EV incentives were higher by an impressive 41% year-over-year and have been above 12% of ATP for six consecutive months. Strong sales incentives, which averaged more than $6,700 per sale in 2024, were one reason EV sales surpassed 1.3 million units last year, according to Cox Automotive, a new record for volume and share.
(My colleague Jameson Dow reported yesterday, “In 2024, the world sold 3.5 million more EVs than it did in the previous year … This increase is larger than the 3.2 million increase in EV sales from the previous year – meaning that EV sales aren’t just up, but that the rate of growth is itself increasing.”)
Kelley Blue Book estimated that in December, approximately 84,000 vehicles – or 5.6% of total sales – transacted at prices higher than $80,000 – the highest volume ever. KBB lumps gas cars and EVs together into this luxury vehicle category, so this is where Tesla Cybertruck is slotted.
However, Tesla bundles sales figures of Cybertruck with Model S, Model X, and Tesla Semi(!) into a category it calls “other models,” so we don’t know for sure exactly how many Cybertrucks Tesla sold in Q4, much less in December. However, Electrek‘s Fred Lambert estimates between 9,000 and 12,000 Cybertrucks were sold in Q4, and that’s not a stellar sales figure.
What will January bring when it comes to EV ATPs? What about tax credits? Check back in a month and I’ll fill you in.
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Tesla is now claiming that Cybertruck was the ‘best-selling electric pickup in US’ last year despite not even reporting the number of deliveries.
There’s a lot of context needed here.
As we often highlighted, Tesla is sadly one of, if not the most, opaque automakers regarding sales reports.
Tesla doesn’t break down sales per model or even region.
For comparison, here’s Ford’s Q4 2024 sales report compared to Tesla’s:
You could argue that Tesla has fewer models than Ford, and that’s true, but Tesla’s report literally has two lines despite having six different models.
There’s no reason not to offer a complete breakdown like all other automakers other than trying to make it hard to verify the health of each vehicle program.
This has been the case with the Cybertruck. Tesla is bundling its Cybertruck deliveries with Model S, Model X, and Tesla Semi deliveries.
Despite this lack of disclosure, Tesla has been able to claim that the Cybertruck has become “the best-selling electric pickup truck” in the US in 2024:
It very well might be true. Ford disclosed 33,510 F-150 Lightning truck deliveries in the US in 2024 while most estimates are putting Cybertruck deliveries at around 40,000 units.
Those are global deliveries, but Tesla only delivered the Cybertruck in the US, Canada, and Mexico in 2024, and most of the deliveries are believed to be in the US.
However, there’s essential context needed here, as we highlighted in our recent ‘Tesla Cybertruck sales are disastrous‘ article.
First off, Tesla had a backlog of over 1 million reservations for the Cybertruck that it has been building since 2019. This led many to believe Tesla already had years of demand baked in for the truck and that production would be the constraint.
However, based on estimates, again, because Tesla refuses to disclose the data, Cybertruck deliveries were either flat or down in Q4 versus Q3 despite Tesla introducing cheaper versions of the vehicle and ramping up production.
Again, that’s after just about 40,000 deliveries.
Furthermore, with almost 11,000 deliveries in Q4 in the US, Ford more likely than not outsold Cybertruck with the F-150 Lightning in Q4.
Electrek’s Take
Tesla is in damage control here. There’s no doubt that it is having issues selling the Cybertruck.
Inventory is full of Cybertrucks and Tesla is now discounting them and offering free lifetime Supercharging.
Tesla is great at ramping up production, and it’s clear the Cybertruck is not production-constrained anymore. It is demand-constrained despite having over 1 million reservations.
Again, those reservations were made before Tesla unveiled the production version, which happened to have less range and cost significantly more.
The upcoming cheaper single motor version should help with demand, but I have serious doubts Tesla can ramp this program up to more than 100,000 units in the US.
As a reminder, Tesla installed a production capacity of 250,000 units annually and Musk said he could see Tesla selling 500,000 Cybertrucks per year.
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