I stumbled across this from an Elon Musk tweet: https://cleantechnica.com/2019/09/22/tesla-vs-porsche-ev-rivalry-accelerates-the-death-of-fossil-vehicles/ Whilst seemingly irrelevant to everyday driving, the ongoing competition between Tesla and Porsche over EV performance supremacy is quickly demonstrating that fossil sports cars are becoming obsolete — an important symbolic milestone for the EV revolution which will have repercussions in higher volume segments. If Porsche wants its Taycan to keep pace with the Tesla Model S Plaid, Porsche will have to allow it to outperform the company’s current flagship Panamera combustion sedan. And that will only highlight the inferiority of fossil vehicles. . . . The Taycan’s Nürburgring Nordschleife lap time worked out to be 4 seconds slower than the Panamera (7:42 vs 7:38). This may have been more than a happy coincidence. With these respective lap times, in the eyes of Porsche’s marketing department, everything lines up nicely: the Panamera is fractionally more expensive, but carries slightly higher currency in terms of track performance than the Taycan. This arrangement preserves the supremacy of combustion vehicles in Porsche’s family hierarchy. . . . There’s a famous old aphorism in motorsport — “win on Sunday, sell on Monday.” The idea emerged in the mid-20th century, and remains the case today. Nice. Bob Wilson
