Porsche unveiled its first pure battery electric vehicle, the Taycan, to great fanfare this week. Elon Musk mocked it.
Porsche unveiled its first pure battery electric vehicle, the Taycan, to great fanfare this week.
"In close traffic, poisonous gas spewing from the car in front of you goes straight into your AC intake. Good thing gas/diesel carmakers didn't cheat on their emissions or we'd be in real trouble," Musk wrote, punctuating the tweet with an emoji. Turbo chargers give internal combustion engines more horsepower without adding much weight to the vehicle. But Porsche is using "turbo" to designate a faster version of their electric vehicle.
The notion that Tesla might take its latest Model S there to make an official record attempt there stirred excitement among fans of both automakers.reported that "a Model S was track-prepped in California and arrived on the ground in Germany on Monday."
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