Porsche has unveiled its answer to the Tesla - a concept car you'll never need to plug in. It charges using special conductive tiles the owner simply drives over. Porsche boasts it has all-wheel drive and all-wheel steering, zero to 100 km/h acceleration in under 3.5 seconds and a charging time of around 15 minutes to reach an 80 per cent charge of electrical energy.
'The concept car combines the unmistakable emotional design of a Porsche with excellent performance and the forward-thinking practicality of the first 800-volt drive system,' it claims as it unveiled the car at the IAA in Frankfurt.
It also says the car will have a radical dashboard boasting 'Instruments intuitively operated by eye-tracking and gesture control, some even via holograms.' The dashboard displays will even automatically adjusting to the driver's position. The drive system of the Mission E is taken form the firm's racing cars.
Two permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSM) – similar to those used in this year's Le Mans victor, the 919 hybrid – accelerate the sports car and recover braking energy. Together the two motors produce over 600 hp, and they propel the Mission E to a speed of 100 km/h in less than 3.5 seconds and to 200 km/h in under twelve seconds. See more photos below.....
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