Porsche Advertises 1,093 HP For The Taycan Turbo GT. Germany Lists 220 HP

EV peak horsepower can be 400 percent higher than a car’s rated continuous hp. Batteries, motors, inverters and cooling determine how long maximum output lasts. Even combustion cars have played similar games with temporary overboost figures. Electric cars have turned horsepower figures into something that looks like a mid-century telephone number. But those four-figure outputs plastered across brochures don’t necessarily represent what your EV can produce continuously. As Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport explains, peak and sustained power are very different animals. var adpushup = window.adpushup = window.adpushup || {que:[]}; adpushup.que.push(function() { if (adpushup.config.platform !== “DESKTOP”){ adpushup.triggerAd(“0f7e3106-c4d6-4db4-8135-c508879a76f8”); } else { adpushup.triggerAd(“82503191-e1d1-435a-874f-9c78a2a54a2f”); } }); Take the Porsche Taycan Turbo GT. Porsche…

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