Porsche brought two members of its "more-than-1,000 PS club" to the FAT Ice Race in Zell am See, Austria: the legendary 917/30 and the new Cayenne Turbo Electric. One ran on methanol at Can-Am races. The other runs on electrons. Both produce four-digit power figures.
The 917/30 originally developed up to 1,100 PS, with a modified version reaching 1,230 PS when Mark Donohue set a closed-course speed record averaging 355.85 km/h at Talladega in 1975. Nearly 50 years later, the Cayenne Turbo Electric produces 850 kW (1,156 PS) and 1,500 Nm, accelerates to 100 km/h in 2.5 seconds, charges at up to 400 kW, and covers more than 600 km on a charge.
The Cayenne Turbo Electric is the most powerful series-production Porsche ever built. Putting it next to the 917/30 on an ice track in Austria is the kind of heritage theater that Porsche executes better than anyone: connecting the engineering philosophy of the past to the engineering reality of the present, without pretending the two machines have anything in common beyond the badge and the power output.
WLTP consumption for the Cayenne Turbo Electric: 22.4-20.4 kWh/100 km. CO2 emissions: 0 g/km.
