{"id":83338,"date":"2025-08-28T00:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=83338"},"modified":"2025-08-28T00:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:03:04","slug":"porsche-cayenne-ev-fake-shifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=83338","title":{"rendered":"Porsche&#8217;s Simulated EV Gear Shifting May Feel So Real, You Can&#8217;t Tell The Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Last year, Porsche said that adding fake shifting to EVs made the cars &#8220;worse.&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It secretly toyed around with the idea and now has a prototype where engineers &#8220;could not tell the difference.&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The automaker is now considering adding it to their next-gen EVs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Remember last year when <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/news\/731383\/porsche-simulated-shifting-porsche-worse\/\" data-inline-widget=\"internal-links\" data-type-id=\"0\" data-params=\"%7B%22article_edition_id%22%3A%22731383%22%2C%22section%22%3A%221%22%2C%22alias%22%3A%22porsche-simulated-shifting-porsche-worse%22%7D\">Porsche\u00a0guffawed\u00a0boisterously at Hyundai for adding fake shifting to its Ioniq 5 N<\/a>? That was <em>exactly<\/em> one year ago. Evidently, a year was just enough time for the Germans to realize that they might have made a mistake, because now Porsche is apparently considering adding the feature to its own cars, too.<\/p>\n<p>News comes from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/news\/porsche-is-now-considering-fake-gear-shifts-in-its-evs-after-earlier-opposition\"><em>The Drive&#8217;s<\/em><\/a>\u00a0editor, Kyle\u00a0Cheromcha, who recently went on a ride-along in a Porsche Cayenne EV prototype with the manager of validation for the program&#8217;s prototypes,\u00a0Sascha Niesen.<\/p>\n<p>During the short ride, Niesen revealed that not only is Porsche open to the idea of adding fake shifting to its EVs, but it&#8217;s already developed a whole\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/news\/763335\/mercedes-amg-electric-sedan-sound\/\" data-inline-widget=\"internal-links\" data-type-id=\"0\" data-params=\"%7B%22article_edition_id%22%3A%22763335%22%2C%22section%22%3A%221%22%2C%22alias%22%3A%22mercedes-amg-electric-sedan-sound%22%7D\">symphony of fake engine noises<\/a> and mechanical shift simulations so good that even its engineers can&#8217;t tell the difference.<\/p>\n<section data-is-mosaic=\"0\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\" data-widget=\"image\" data-border=\"\" data-id=\"8144337\" readability=\"1\">\n        <span class=\"svg-search\"><br \/>\n            <svg>\n                <use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/design\/dist\/critical\/icons\/sprite-common-0-c97ccff7c5ae8038b0af0c30da76004a.svg#semidir\"\/>\n            <\/svg><br \/>\n        <\/span>\n    <picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"&#10;            https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/mgl\/W8qZGL\/s5\/porsche-cayenne-ev-prototype.webp 213w,&#10;            https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/mgl\/W8qZGL\/s6\/porsche-cayenne-ev-prototype.webp 445w,&#10;            https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/mgl\/W8qZGL\/s4\/porsche-cayenne-ev-prototype.webp 889w,&#10;            https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/mgl\/W8qZGL\/s3\/porsche-cayenne-ev-prototype.webp 1280w,&#10;            https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/mgl\/W8qZGL\/s2\/porsche-cayenne-ev-prototype.webp 1440w,&#10;            https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/mgl\/W8qZGL\/s1\/porsche-cayenne-ev-prototype.webp 1920w&#10;        \" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) calc(100vw - 24px), (max-width: 1023px) calc(100vw - 48px), 644px\"><source type=\"image\/jpeg\" srcset=\"&#10;            https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/mgl\/W8qZGL\/s5\/porsche-cayenne-ev-prototype.jpg 213w,&#10;            https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/mgl\/W8qZGL\/s6\/porsche-cayenne-ev-prototype.jpg 445w,&#10;            https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/mgl\/W8qZGL\/s4\/porsche-cayenne-ev-prototype.jpg 889w,&#10;            https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/mgl\/W8qZGL\/s3\/porsche-cayenne-ev-prototype.jpg 1280w,&#10;            https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/mgl\/W8qZGL\/s2\/porsche-cayenne-ev-prototype.jpg 1440w,&#10;            https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/mgl\/W8qZGL\/s1\/porsche-cayenne-ev-prototype.jpg 1920w&#10;        \" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) calc(100vw - 24px), (max-width: 1023px) calc(100vw - 48px), 644px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/static\/16x9-tr.png\" alt=\"Porsche Cayenne EV prototype\" width=\"16\" height=\"9\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<div class=\"photo-title\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>Porsche Cayenne EV prototype<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Photo by: HillClimb.tv<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>It turns out that Porsche&#8217;s engineers went on a quest to create a simulated engine noise from the Cayenne&#8217;s venerable V8 for the upcoming electric version of the SUV. Part of that development process was the need to tune the sound for all possible driving conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recorded noises from both the sound it\u2019s making on the inside for the interior, and for the outside, the sound coming out of the exhaust,\u201d Niesen told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/news\/porsche-is-now-considering-fake-gear-shifts-in-its-evs-after-earlier-opposition\"><em>The Drive<\/em><\/a>, explaining how the Cayenne&#8217;s team worked to merge the sound of a V8 into an EV.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/reviews\/769842\/porsche-macan-ev-video-review\/\" data-inline-widget=\"internal-links\" data-type-id=\"0\" data-params=\"%7B%22article_edition_id%22%3A%22769842%22%2C%22section%22%3A%222%22%2C%22alias%22%3A%22porsche-macan-ev-video-review%22%7D\">Porsche is a very emotional brand<\/a>. Sights, sounds and\u00a0<em>feels<\/em> are all very important parts of the driving experience. You can&#8217;t just throw the sounds of a V8 at a car and expect it to give off the same feel\u2014the Cayenne EV&#8217;s engineers knew this. And this is where\u00a0Niesen&#8217;s explanation gives away Porsche&#8217;s plans:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need to modulate it because the rev range [on the EV] is much bigger. But in theory, if you would introduce virtual gear shifts, you could use the whole thing, depending how many virtual gears you would introduce,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<section data-is-mosaic=\"0\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\" data-widget=\"image\" data-border=\"\" data-id=\"8183262\" readability=\"1\">\n        <span class=\"svg-search\"><br \/>\n            <svg>\n                <use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/design\/dist\/critical\/icons\/sprite-common-0-c97ccff7c5ae8038b0af0c30da76004a.svg#semidir\"\/>\n            <\/svg><br \/>\n        <\/span>\n    <picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"&#10;            https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/mgl\/rKqVrO\/s5\/porsche-cayenne-electric.webp 213w,&#10;            https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/mgl\/rKqVrO\/s6\/porsche-cayenne-electric.webp 445w,&#10;            https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/mgl\/rKqVrO\/s4\/porsche-cayenne-electric.webp 889w,&#10;            https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/mgl\/rKqVrO\/s3\/porsche-cayenne-electric.webp 1280w,&#10;            https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/mgl\/rKqVrO\/s2\/porsche-cayenne-electric.webp 1440w,&#10;            https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/mgl\/rKqVrO\/s1\/porsche-cayenne-electric.webp 1920w&#10;        \" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) calc(100vw - 24px), (max-width: 1023px) calc(100vw - 48px), 644px\"><source type=\"image\/jpeg\" srcset=\"&#10;            https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/mgl\/rKqVrO\/s5\/porsche-cayenne-electric.jpg 213w,&#10;            https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/mgl\/rKqVrO\/s6\/porsche-cayenne-electric.jpg 445w,&#10;            https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/mgl\/rKqVrO\/s4\/porsche-cayenne-electric.jpg 889w,&#10;            https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/mgl\/rKqVrO\/s3\/porsche-cayenne-electric.jpg 1280w,&#10;            https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/mgl\/rKqVrO\/s2\/porsche-cayenne-electric.jpg 1440w,&#10;            https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/mgl\/rKqVrO\/s1\/porsche-cayenne-electric.jpg 1920w&#10;        \" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) calc(100vw - 24px), (max-width: 1023px) calc(100vw - 48px), 644px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/static\/16x9-tr.png\" alt=\"Porsche Cayenne Electric at British mountain race\" width=\"16\" height=\"9\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<div class=\"photo-title\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>Porsche Cayenne Electric at British mountain race<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Photo by: Porsche<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>When pressed,\u00a0Niesen said that the so-called &#8220;virtual gears&#8221; feature is &#8220;in consideration,&#8221; meaning that Porsche hasn&#8217;t quite decided what it wants to do just yet. If the automaker does want to add the shifting feel, it will need to add some hardware\u2014shifter paddles\u2014to the Cayenne.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s also done exactly that to another prototype that Niesen drove earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI drove a concept vehicle in March.\u00a0I wanted to hate it because it\u2019s artificial and it\u2019s fake and everything,&#8221; Niesen recalled. &#8220;I was afraid that the people that are doing it are just software geeks who have no idea how a transmission works and try to emulate it.\u00a0And they know what they\u2019re doing. They were able to make it feel like a proper torque converter gearbox. I could not tell the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also acknowledged that it doesn&#8217;t make sense from an engineering perspective to give an EV fake shift points. That&#8217;s the same justification that\u00a0Porsche development driver Lars Kern gave last year who said that fake shifting is just simulating something that&#8217;s &#8220;in the past.&#8221; But\u00a0Niesen also noted that automakers did exactly this when introducing CVT transmissions just because it made the gearboxes feel more like a traditional car.<\/p>\n<section class=\"widget-newsletter\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\" data-widget=\"widget-newsletter\" readability=\"-19.086614173228\">\n<\/section>\n<p>Porsche says that the key here is to give the buyer options. If the automaker includes the feature\u2014and that&#8217;s a big if\u2014in future EVs, it won&#8217;t be something that the driver will have to interact with, but it will be something that those seeking a bit more emotion from their driving experience could use regularly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s key,&#8221; said\u00a0Niesen.\u00a0&#8220;You\u2019ve got to give the customer the option to be more engaged, but in an EV, it cannot be mandatory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                                                                        <!-- new gallery place, attached gallery --><\/p>\n<div class=\"group isBottomShare mb-spacing-md-lg\">\n<p>\n                                    Share this Story                                <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Porsche said that adding fake shifting to EVs made the cars &#8220;worse.&#8221; It secretly toyed around with the idea and now has a prototype where engineers &#8220;could not tell the difference.&#8221; The automaker is now considering adding it to their next-gen EVs. Remember last year when Porsche\u00a0guffawed\u00a0boisterously at Hyundai for adding fake shifting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83339,"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-83338","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\/83338","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=83338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}