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ga41 says:
Read online that rumour has it that Porsche is quite interested in the upstart from Silicon Valley and have put in an order for a Tesla Roadster of their own to apparently study in detail..
Is Porsche looking to build an electric sports car in the future? I can hear the die-hards screaming and crying already!
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Mar 08
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Batty says:
An electric Porsche? Why not? The thought has very little appeal for me, but I don't rate the Cayenne or the Panamera either.
Perhaps they are just going to make an electric golf cart, and they want it to be the fastest. Imagine, drive the 911, attendant gets the clubs from the boot, puts them into the cart and off you go.
Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha.
Well RUF's already made an electric version of the 911, the eRUF Model A. It looks like it could eat the Tesla for breakfast but in reality it just keeps up with Golf GTis...
Jan 09
Posts: 29
pete917 says:
Im crying already.
pete917 said: Im crying already.
There, there, it's OK Pete, i'm sure petrol 911's will be the norm for quite some time still.
Dec 06
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car4mh says:
ga41 said: Read online that rumour has it that Porsche is quite interested in the upstart from Silicon Valley and have put in an order for a Tesla Roadster of their own to apparently study in detail.. Is Porsche looking to build an electric sports car in the future? I can hear the die-hards screaming and crying already!
Haha, let the wailing and gnashing of teeth begin. It will probably be the first electric sportscar to hang its battery pack behind the rear axle-line i wouldn't worry too much though, car companies buy rival products all the time, it doesn't necessarily mean they're going to replicate them.
Like how Porsche bought a Nissan GT-R a while back..?
Jan 08
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JohnnyBimmer says:
Instead of £105,000 spent on a Tesla the wizz kids at Porsche could have bought;
- 3x Lotus Elise, each less than half the weight of the Tesla and more the sportscar
- 2x BMW M3's
- 1x Porsche 911 Turbo
Do the maths, engineering or driving. On all counts, the Tesla is a zero sum game
But it IS a step towards the fast/fun electric car. Baby steps Johny, baby steps.
Aug 06
Posts: 2262
lokinen says:
Electric motors have Superior performance charateristics to petrol engines.Petrol engines are actually so poor they need stepped transmissions to dodge around the peaks and troughs in their power delivery.Electric motors have no such issues.Its not the motors that need developing,just the power/fuel storage.
Beep Beep
GA41 - baby steps indeed . Electricity has been around as long as oil and is still but a pale shadow of the high powered black stuff. ISo it's not "a baby" but a pensioner carrying a 600kg battery pack requiring 8 hours plugged into a coal station to recharge. Don't hold your breath for major advances when for 100yrs it's been tipped as the thrusting young turk and the next big thing. Fact is it's an old timer taking tiny steps coz its carrying too much baggage (including false expectations)
Lokinen - Bolt a £3k after-market turbocharger onto a stanbard Elise and it easily matches the £70k more expensive Tesla. Is that the "unmatched performance characteristics" you're speeking of?
Should I mention it'll be 600kg lighter , far better/nicer to drive, have a 100 mile superior driving range and take 5mins to refuel rather than 8 tedious hours? Petrol engines match electric on any measurement and then some. No contest. Referee took pitty before the flabby Tesla got to the ring to be torn apart by Oil
And for some reason the Tesla (an obese electric pig) have a nasty habit of crashing all too often too...
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