2020 Porsche Taycan

Jonny Lieberman

The CliffsNotes summary of the electric Porsche Taycan is this: a staggeringly impressive vehicle that struggled against some of our Car of the Year criteria. Remember, we employ six key criteria when evaluating cars during COTY, which is how the $26,000 Nissan Sentra is able to be in the same competition with a $146,000 electric Porsche. The Taycan knocked several of those criteria out of the park. But let’s get the bad stuff out of the way first. “You are looking at the least efficient fully electric vehicle currently produced today, period,” Buyer’s Guide director Zach Gale said. “How do you spin that?” You can’t. The Taycan Turbo S gets 68 mpg-e, whereas a comparable Tesla Model S P100D achieves 98 mpg-e. Gale continued: “You shouldn’t get a prize for just showing…

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