Nürburgring in Germany is where you bring your car to test its handling, brakes, and performance. Think of any car or supercar — whether upcoming or prototype — and it is very likely that the vehicle was tuned and tested at Nürburgring.

Nürburgring is unlike any racetrack in the world as its extremely varied 25.98 km-long tarmac with huge crests, blind corners and an overall extremely challenging layout replicates the imperfections and undulations of the road.

For a certain car to make a record here, that would be something and that's what the Taycan, Porsche's 100-percent electric-powered super sports car did recently as it set a new EV lap record at Nürburgring.

The Taycan's official lap time of seven minutes and 7.55 seconds is fastest achieved by an electric Porsche. Porsche development driver Lars Kern was the one behind a pre-production version of the updated Porsche Taycan when a new lap record for 100-percent electric-powered sedans was set.

Faster lap times

This officially timed lap is 26 seconds faster than Kern's last record drive, achieved in August 2022, in a Taycan Turbo S equipped with the performance package. The time also shatters by about 18 seconds the previous record for EV sedans set by a Tesla Model S Plaid on the 20.8-km Nordschleife track.

For safety reasons, the pre-production Taycan test car was equipped with a legally prescribed roll cage and racing bucket seats.

Compared to the 2022 record, the pre-production Taycan was 25 kilometers per hour faster than the Taycan Turbo S heading into the Nürburgring's famed Schwedenkreuz corner.