{"id":76155,"date":"2024-08-26T09:03:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T13:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=76155"},"modified":"2024-08-26T09:03:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T13:03:32","slug":"1144246_porsche-won-t-make-evs-with-simulated-shifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=76155","title":{"rendered":"Porsche won&#8217;t make EVs with simulated shifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Porsche EVs won&#8217;t pretend to be gas-powered cars<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The automaker explored the idea of fake shift points<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Porsche has two EVs in its lineup and a third en route<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Porsche seemingly won&#8217;t follow Hyundai&#8217;s lead.<\/p>\n<p>Porsche development driver Lars Kern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drive.com.au\/news\/porsche-shoots-down-fake-shifter-for-evs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Drive<\/a> that the automaker doesn&#8217;t see a need to put <strong>fake shift points in EVs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"static-marker-video-player-primis\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our perspective on this is always why should we <strong>make something worse<\/strong>,&#8221; Kern said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver acknowledged the automaker&#8217;s watching what others, including Hyundai, are doing to simulate sporty characteristics in EVs, but features like fake shift points are viewed as <strong>counter-intuitive<\/strong> to driving as fast as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Kern noted &#8220;there&#8217;s no reason to simulate what has been in the past.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Porsche still makes combustion engines for those that want that feeling.<\/p>\n<p>Porsche <strong>explored the technology<\/strong> to simulate shit points and gear changes, but the automaker stopped at the idea stage. A prototype was never created, according to Kern.<\/p>\n<p>Hyundai developed shift points, power cutoff and transfer, and even sound generators (speakers) at various points around the vehicle in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1140199_2024-hyundai-ioniq-5-n-performance-ev-gets-bigger-battery-ice-noise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ioniq 5 N<\/a>. All were done in an effort to simulate a gas-powered car&#8217;s driving experience in an EV.<\/p>\n<p>The effort was all in the name of fun rather than lap times. Hyundai execs and spokespeople told Green Car Reports at the launch of the Ioniq 5 N that the shift points and sound help drivers have more fun and provide a better sense of speed on the track.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1142882_2025-hyundai-ioniq-5-n-test-drive-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worth the wait<\/a>, and both the fake shit points, power curves, and sound generators work to create a different experience in an EV. An experience that&#8217;s closer to that of a gas-powered car than a BEV, but while fun, it was clear on a race track these things don&#8217;t make the car lap the course quicker. If anything, they might slow the car down due to the fake power curves being implemented for the fake gearing.<\/p>\n<p>Kern said that&#8217;s not what Porsche is looking for. &#8220;We don&#8217;t try to make the electric car <strong>feel like a combustion engine,<\/strong> so that&#8217;s why we just didn&#8217;t follow up on that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1124892_2020-porsche-taycan-preview-fast-electric-expensive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Porsche Taycan<\/a> has been on sale since 2020, and the automaker&#8217;s second EV, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1142105_porsche-prices-80-450-macan-4-106-950-macan-turbo-ev-suvs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Macan<\/a>, is launching now. A successor to the 7<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1135350_ceo-porsche-plans-to-build-charging-network-718-sports-car-going-electric\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">18 Boxster and Cayman<\/a> is in the wings and will bring Porsche&#8217;s sports cars into the electric era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Porsche EVs won&#8217;t pretend to be gas-powered cars The automaker explored the idea of fake shift points Porsche has two EVs in its lineup and a third en route Porsche seemingly won&#8217;t follow Hyundai&#8217;s lead. Porsche development driver Lars Kern told Drive that the automaker doesn&#8217;t see a need to put fake shift points in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}