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Another world-first from Stuttgart. The Porsche Taycan is the German automaker's first-ever purely battery-electric model (and definitely not its last) that utilizes a number of other new technologies. One of them involves the exterior paint. At first, this may sound kind of mundane but the reality is that a vehicle's paint and how it's applied is critical to immediate and long-term quality. Painting the body of a new Taycan on the assembly line at the Zuffenhausen factory previously required workers to move a 15.5-pound tool with only their thumbs 3,600 times per working day. It sounds stren...

Porsche adopts new production process using patches, not plugs; Taycan EV first Porsche AG has developed a new production process at its headquarters in Zuffenhausen in collaboration with Tesa SE. Using this process, the holes in the car body, which are necessary for corrosion prevention, can now be sealed much more effectively; these holes are required so that all of the body cavities can be accessed in the paint shop. The innovative solution uses sealing patches instead of plastic plugs. The all-electric Porsche Taycan is the first car in the world to use this new process. A robot places m...