Porsche’s entry-level electric pairs swift performance with a decent range 29 April 2021 - 05:00 Denis Droppa Priced at R2,227,000, the baseline Taycan silently whisks from 0-100km/h in 5.4 seconds. Picture: DENIS DROPPA Affordable electric vehicles (EVs) for the masses are still some years away, but the premium end of the market has a growing array of choices for well-heeled early adopters of nonpolluting cars. The Porsche Taycan launched last year demonstrated that not only can battery-powered cars be friendly to the planet, they can be exciting too. The range-topping Taycan Turbo S — which retains conventional petrol-engined nomenclature even though it’s an electric — is a 560kW beast that accelerates quicker than a Formula One car for the first couple of seconds. Its 0-100km/h time is claimed at 2.8 seconds — about the same as the petrol-engined Porsche 911 Turbo S — and it has a 260km/h top speed.