Welcome to Tech in the Car! I’m Oliver and I'm here at porsche UK with a beautiful stunning
Porsche Taycan Turbo and I've got the Audi e-Tron GT Quattro here as well big thank you to
Coulsdon Marshall Audi for this and a big thank you to Porsche UK! Let's talk about the name so
this is the Porsche thai-khan not the tycan not the toucan nothing like that thai khan there's
even a video on Porsche's YouTube explaining how to pronounce it so that's the first thing the
next thing is it's called the turbo and turbo x at least in the top end of the range why is that when
it doesn't have an engine it's not got any turbos it's just because it's a way Porsche denotes
their high performance models nothing complicated nothing controversial no need to get your panties
in a twist as english people sometimes do it just is their way of telling you this is the
fastest most powerful version of the taikan you can get of course there are standard versions the
4S the rear wheel drive and of the Cross Turismo as well they don't have turban on the name so if
you really really don't like having turbo in the name that's your answer but if you want the best
best performance you want a turbo like this model here or the turbo s so let's talk about the taikan
turbo this car has a range of about 280 miles it loses a bit of that range which you get from
the rear wheel drive version which is around 300 which is the same as the e-tron gt quattro because
it is a performance car it can do zero to 60 in 3.1 seconds the turbo s can do it in 2.9 seconds
and this car as i already mentioned is about 130 1000 pounds with all the specs and all the options
this car and the e-tron gt are built on the same platform the vw group developed to make sure that
they could move forward with fantastic designs and indeed there are lots of similarities in the
cars including as i mentioned the rear which has the same size boot but there are also changes i
mentioned some things which were different so you can see the porsche has a lower nose it's got the
really cool very flat porsche lights with the four led data running lights it has a very distinct
porsche look very very much just like the mission e concept in 2012. now if we look at the front
of the audi there are definitely some obvious differences it's got the more elongated style
audi light and it's got a grille it doesn't need a grill there's no engine of course just like the
taikan but that's an audi trait so they've done it with that design with this contrast color and the
rs versions that's all blacked out that looks like an audi and that looks like a porsche both from
the front and from the back and that is really really clever styling even though it's built
on the same platform now one thing you've seen probably everywhere is the fact that this door
for the charging is electric that is super super cool just like the audi it's got a little pop down
bit for the dc charge there's also an ac on the other side just like on the audi there's both a
ac and a dc very rocking don't you think and it's got the same button it's got the same colors here
on the side but i mean that's pretty cool isn't it automatic electric doors on the charging port
just do this all day i wonder how long it would take to run the batteries down if i just did that
all day and would i end up with wrist injuries before i get there anyway that's really cool
let's talk about the back of the porsche tycoon so we got a little button here you press to open the
boot that's a different way of opening it than the audi i prefer that that's much much neater inside
it's exactly the same size 366 liters there's the same scuff plates there's the same space the same
configuration it's got that porsche design and a spoiler which you can't put up unless it is being
driven there's no way to do it manually unlike on the audi where you can actually raise a spoiler
so you can pose with your audi e-tron gt what about the back of the audi let's have a look
at that both the taikan and the e-tron gt have these very muscular shoulders over the rear wheels
they probably look wider at the rear than from the front you can definitely feel that
when you're looking in the mirrors in terms of design you can see this distinctive audi light
bar which is 3d and sticks out but obviously if we're talking about the space in the back
and how much room you have here this works exactly the same way excuse all the stuff in the back here
you got the same space the same stuff based i already said that very very similar the buttons
are in the same place as well there is one extra button there to lock it as well but other than
that it's identical in terms of wheels they're both 21-inch wheels they both look very very
similar in design it's got the porsche look the audi look they're very nice looking wheels
you have your choices though with both you get more options with the porsche in general porsche
gives you more options of everything if you want a more personalized car then porsha really is a
way to go however if you're an audi lover and you love the audi size and design then that's a
way to go with that now one thing you can see with the porsche is the door handles pop out like that
which is super super cool and then they lock like that now one thing these do
both have in common is they both have the ability to charge at 800 volts which means
you can charge the car up to 60 miles in five minutes which is very similar to a traditional
petrol car that's a really really big improvement for electric vehicles in fact the only other cars
that can do it are the hyundai ioniq 5 and the kia ev6 these were the first two cars in fact
the porsche was the first car that could do that kind of charging as it is right now you can charge
10 to 80 in 20 minutes with one of the really rapid charges you can get places like ionity can
give you that kind of charge they also have the ability to connect without having to be
authenticated charges what i mean by that is you don't need an app you don't need to scan a card if
you have a compatible charging unit and a car like these two then the car can shake hands directly
with a charging unit and know who you are know what the car is and charge it and then charge you
the amount of money it costs to charge your car up that is exactly like the way that tesla does
it and it's one of the great benefits of having a tesla because you don't have to fiddle around
tapping cars just plug it in and go saves you time especially in english weather when it's going to
start raining probably any second so why are these cars so similar it's because they're built off the
same platform the vw group created which means they have the same underpinnings there are some
differences they have a different design but there are some things like the boot area which
are pretty much identical and there are some things which are very different like the front
and indeed the design at the back of the car with a light bar which goes all the way across
the audi and the nose being much higher on the audi this being much lower in fact the porsche
unsurprisingly is more aerodynamic than the audi it's got a drag coefficient of 0.22 the audi
e-tron gt has a drag efficient of 0.24 welcome to the inside of the porsche taikan turbo the inside
of this car is just another level the leather the feel the finish the seats this just feels like a
special place to be it really really does and i'm going to look at the technology in a minute the
displays we have here and all the cool little things and the infotainment in front of me as well
but just sitting inside this car it feels luxurious alcantara on the headliner we've
got the same panoramic sunroof as the e-tron gt sitting in here you can again see the similarities
between the taikan and the eastern gt and looking in the rear view mirror i can see the rear window
the rear wind screen is exactly the same as the e-tron gt is the same shape the same size the same
view the only difference is we've got alcantara on the back there which looks slightly nicer
in the mirror but other than that that is very very similar inside this car the porsche steering
wheel this is a much much much more sporty steering wheel to be expected this is a porsche
that's not the rs e-tron gt that i've been driving that's just a standard model it's a smaller wheel
porsche seem to have smaller wheels and they just feel much more sporty ironically enough
because it's smaller and easier to grab and i guess probably easier to steer one difference
between that and a tesla model s plaid which has the yolk although the yolk is pretty cool the
other thing too in here as you're sitting in here the seating position feels very different i also
have a different view because the front of the car is different so even though the bonnet drops away
quicker than the audi the light haunters which are where the lights are on the front of this porsche
actually are more visible and i think that's quite interesting i think you might be able to use it as
a way of placing yourself into the corners when you're driving or just driving around any corners
doesn't have to be on the nurburgring so you know that's something which is interesting to note the
other thing too is the way that the doors and the center console join each other is slightly
simpler on the audi it's got a very intricate kind of way it connects up on here it's just ends and
the door is there it's just a lot lot simpler to look at the other thing too a very expensive
option the sports chrono is on this car and i can see the time very very easily and that brings it
up a touch again with that classiness of course the white leather in here is really really nice
i thought the same thing when i was in the ferrari roma this is really really nice interior and it
feels very very special let's have a look at some of the tech now and see how it works what
are some of the cool features and things in this interior that you don't get in other cars
so the first thing to be noted is we have two infotainment screens we have a bottom screen and
a top screen this is a vertical screen a bit like if you were holding your ipad vertically or maybe
like a galaxy fold folding phone and then this is a horizontal screen like widescreen you can
also option an additional display on the passenger side this car doesn't have it and of course we've
got this beautiful curved display up here which lets you see all the information when driving now
what can you do on this display in the middle well it's a very interesting design you can see at the
bottom here we have our volume buttons this is not a physical button it's a touch sensitive button i
think it's actually quite a good placement for it however you know i do have to admit that the
times where buttons used to be very plentiful and cars have gone and i love my gadgets and i love my
touch screens but you know you can see some people may be complaining about that i also love the fact
you have your power button down here which will turn off the central display and the infotainment
system don't get confused between that power button and the power button on the car which
turns off the car and interestingly enough with the power button on the car you have to hold it
down for a couple of seconds to power off the car that's different from other electric cars
i've driven going back to this central display we also have a little touchpad area here in the
middle which i can then use to control my display in the middle this is yes a display controlling
another display and that isn't actually a bad idea look i know that this isn't very far to reach from
here but if you're driving along this is probably slightly more distracting than going like that
and using your finger on this little touch pad and it's a very clever use of the space that porsche
have done it's very forward thinking also it has a lot in common with other cars like mercedes which
actually physically have touch pads and audis previous generation audis which had touch pads so
people are familiar with that touch pad wheel kind of thing having that in the middle is a good thing
to have and then we have a button for our charging information i can see my current charge status
and i can pre-cool and pre-heat it as well so i've got 97 and 229 miles if i want to charge a car
quicker i can press that button and it will pre-cool or preheat the car we can turn that off
because we don't need that right now but on a cold day that will allow the battery to charge faster
and get that charge going much much much quicker this is something which tesla does and again
it's very unusual in other cars the other thing i can do is i can open my charging ports with the
two little buttons down here we've got our ac dc and our ac connector so that means i can open them
from inside the car it makes sense it's electric it's automatic but having a button to do it here
is again a nice thing this is really good in the bad weather in the winter in the rain electric
cars generally don't have canopies over their charging stations so you're going to get a bit
annoyed in the winter it's fair to say being able to open that from the inside is a great thing
and when the charging network is able to support hand shaking with the cars
directly like tesla does that will make it even easier and of course when you can charge it
60 miles in five minutes when that infrastructure exists that'll be even better as well the other
thing we have here is haptic feedback i can be sure when i select an option there's no pressing
it and i'm not sure if anything happened and there's a back button as well here i can also open
the boot and the front from inside here as well and then i can also activate the camera
system and see the 360 camera which is a really really good 360 camera and one other thing
about this 360 camera which is really really unusual about this is the back camera lets you
wash it yes you can wash your back camera from inside the car porsche this is amazing there are
two things which annoy me when trying to reverse a car one a dirty back camera and two not being able
to see around your car at night time this button lets me wash it from inside turning on the washer
cleaning the back camera so i can make sure i can see even when it's bad whether it is terrible
really really clever idea i'd love it if a company did put lights on the outside of the car though
when you've got the 360 camera at night so you can see where you're going that would be really cool
somebody please do that but this is a huge thing a washer on the back there amazing porsche i
absolutely love that you've also got quick access here to the main infotainment system using these
shortcuts so navigation music phone and your settings again they're making it very easy to use
the main navigation the main infotainment system from down here yes it is a touch screen i can
still control it from here but what is cool about this is i have the options and that again is very
thoughtful and that thoughtfulness is really really important to the driver
experience there's no doubt about that if you've ever wondered about the ambient lighting settings
in your porsche no problem we can go into comfort here we can click on our colors and we can change
it we can scroll it down and up in fact let's use a little control pad here because that makes it
a lot easier to do and you can change what color you want and the wall so let's say we go for green
there we go and then we change the brightness we can make it brighter
and then we can go down to the doors
and we can change the brightness of the doors so you can change your settings on your porsche we
can change our cup holder brightness as well yes you can adjust the brightness of your cup holder
and if you're center console this car is going to be very green for the next person that gets
in it and as well for the footwell there you go so we've got our overall brightness at 100
control from the little pad here and what about the gear shift lever well this is kind of like
a little brawn shavery kind of design and you press it up and down to change gear so
i can put it into reverse by pressing this put it into drive or put it into neutral and
then when i want to put it into park there's a nice park button right there very very simple
and easy to use i love that and then for the lights well the lights there's little buttons on
the side here that i can use to turn the lights on and off and again nice and simple to use
and on the other side here we have our buttons for the traction control to change the suspension
and the modes and to adjust the height of the car to lower it or make it higher and then we've
also got a shortcut button which lets you save whatever important setting you want now how do
you change the direction of the air vents because these don't move by themselves how do you do that
you have to use the system here if i go into the menu i can then move it around and change
where it goes i can't do that any other way really interesting way of doing things it does
give you a lot of control obviously about where you want the air but you can't physically move
these yourself so that is a porsche tycoon that is porsche's electric vehicle there are so many
different variants of the car there's something for everyone it's got fantastic technology both
inside and outside and it drives amazingly big thank you to porsche uk for letting me
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