A Day of Electric Racing: Porsche's Impressive Achievement

It was a day filled with excitement and challenge as Porsche's team of drivers embarked on a 13-hour journey to set new records for electric vehicles (EVs). The event took place on a race circuit, where the team had been testing their skills and strategies in preparation for the ultimate goal: breaking multiple records.

The energy consumption was significantly lower than expected, with one car achieving an impressive 61.3 kWh usage over the course of the test. This accomplishment showcased the efficiency of the EVs and demonstrated that even with high-performance driving, they could still manage to conserve energy. The team's approach to driving was a key factor in this success, as they focused on maintaining consistent lap times while also optimizing their energy use.

One of the most impressive aspects of the test was the charging system used by Porsche. A massive 2.1 megawatt charging unit from Germany was able to charge the batteries to 80% in just 20-25 minutes, a feat that highlights the rapid progress being made in EV technology. The team's use of this technology played a crucial role in their success, as they were able to make multiple stops throughout the test without compromising their overall performance.

The challenge of running two EVs for an entire day was not insurmountable, but it did require careful planning and execution. The team split driving duties among three or four drivers, each of whom had to be mindful of their energy consumption in order to maintain a consistent pace throughout the test. Despite some minor setbacks, including a puncture and challenging weather conditions, the cars ran perfectly, with no major issues arising during the event.

As the day progressed, the team made steady gains on their target lap times, with each driver pushing themselves to new limits. The car's advanced systems, including its sophisticated energy management system, allowed the drivers to optimize their performance while also minimizing energy waste. By fine-tuning their driving techniques and exploiting the capabilities of their EVs, the Porsche team was able to shave precious seconds off their lap times.

One of the most striking aspects of the test was the car's ability to adapt to different driving styles. When one driver found that breaking heavily in certain corners was more efficient than braking lightly, they were able to adjust their approach on the fly without compromising their overall performance. This flexibility and willingness to experiment with different strategies allowed the team to make incremental improvements throughout the test.

As the day drew to a close, the Porsche team had achieved an impressive 30 new UK records for EVs, including a total of 12 hours. To add to this remarkable achievement, they also established a record for driving over 1,000 kilometers in just 13 hours. This incredible feat will be tough to beat, and it highlights the rapid progress being made in EV technology.

The success of this test was due in no small part to the team's dedication and expertise. The Porsche team has spent countless hours honing their skills and perfecting their strategies, and their hard work paid off in spectacular fashion. As they continue to push the boundaries of what is possible with electric vehicles, it will be fascinating to see how far they can take this technology.

The experience was a thrilling one for the drivers, who were able to challenge themselves against some of the best in the business. By driving alongside top professionals like Richard Attwood, the team members gained valuable insight into the world of EV racing and developed the skills necessary to compete at the highest level. Despite the challenges they faced, the Porsche team emerged from the test with their heads held high, having achieved a truly remarkable feat.

In the end, it was a day filled with excitement, challenge, and triumph. The Porsche team's impressive achievement will be remembered for a long time, and it serves as a testament to the rapid progress being made in EV technology. As the world continues to shift towards more sustainable forms of transportation, events like this will become increasingly important, providing valuable insights into what is possible with electric vehicles.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome to a cold and wet brands hatch i'm colin goodwin and we're here with porsche and two take hands and the job today is to establish some endurance records for evs there's a few records that have been established for electric cars but they are almost all about top speed and acceleration rather than endurance we are hoping to break 12 records and the one that we're really hoping to achieve is thousand kilometers we've got 13 hours of track time to do this which is quite tight we're gonna start at seven o'clock in the morning run throughout the day we've got a curfew at eight o'clock in the evening so if all goes according to plan we'll have established all those records so we've got a 4s and a turbo s two teams of drivers including richard atwood two young drivers who are our current porsche champions jonathan palmer and rob durham from porsche brand's hatch has been the scene of a number of victories for porsche and endurance racing thousand kilometer races and the two we're celebrating and commemorating with our tribute liveries for the victory in 1970 of the 917 with pedro rodriguez at the wheel that plays first in the boac 500 richard atwood and hans hermann in the salzburg car placed third so they had a podium finish in that race 50 years ago this year and the other win that we're celebrating was jonathan palmer and jan lammers in the 956 here at brands hatch with a thousand kilometers of 1984. we have a really good driver lineup so these guys they're used to going fast but they're also proving very very good at understanding how to just maximize their driving style to promote efficiency over the lap which which i think is going to make us the difference it's a totally different ball game we've got a delta lap time to sort of aim at averaging 70 kilowatt hours per 100 miles for energy consumption and that for me that's been the difficult bit we've got some young drivers here all um regular porsche racers and they seem to be able to go around at an amazingly quick pace and not use much energy and i'm finding it really difficult just got in from my first stint in the car back out again later on but really strange and quite unique experience really you're trying to to do laps of brand hatch while trying to save energy yet still trying to go quickly at the same time so it's quite a bit to focus on managing the battery life while accelerating out of corners but not not too quickly so hour and 40 in the car which round brands indy goes quite quickly there's obviously a lot of changes around the circuit and a variety of corners so perfect venue for for the event of what we're trying to do today the weird thing is that whereas you kind of used to come into a corner hot breaks pitch it in what you're doing is having to judge your braking and coming off and just literally carrying every mile an hour in just let it scrub to the apex and then you're just feeding in the power on the exit just being as smooth as possible isn't it yeah and that but that was the aim of the game so early on i was just wasting energy because i was kind of coming out drew is giving a bit of the pedro rodriguez and then took going oh yeah yeah yeah it's downhill now to graham hill hi i'm harry king porsche crow cup gb junior driver today we're here at brands hatch for the electric vehicle 1000 kilometers challenge taking part in the porsche taikan the challenges of driving an electric vehicle so you have to be very efficient with the way you drive obviously the complete opposite compared to what i'm used to and there's a lot of different driving styles and techniques you can use to get the absolute utmost from the vehicle so my teammates colin goodwin and richard atwood are joining me in the porsche thai car richard's got a huge amount of experience in all sorts of motorsports so it's great to be associated with him and you know having a real good time rob durant who was the master buffing behind planning all of today's event came up with a couple of delta lap times or in other words target lap times that we should be looking at and then the salzburg 4s was 1 minute 08 in the turbo s 1 minute 11 seconds which doesn't sound very fast but in in the wet it wasn't particularly easy it's good job the stability so good either going off on the first corner right from the standing start it was all over the place last night expecting it to be that slippery don't think it was a single lap i didn't turn in and just feel the back end sort of just they told me that you said use the outside of clearways yeah that helps a lot yeah because even harry i mean i watched him he's in his sort of early laps but you can see as he sort of turns in you can see i think he found particularly his first up you could really see it move as he went round battery championship and that's just your normal 12-volt uh system tire pressures will be on the display here yeah um you've got your different range modes you like on the uh 911 stay in range yeah stay in range that's just there first time i've driven a battery electric vehicle it's great that it's a porsche the taican is obviously an exceptional car it's uh it's made a big impact on the road and it's uh it's obviously the ideal vehicle to be the first one to try and take a record for battery electric vehicles on the circuit and the thousand kilometer record is so appropriate here at brands hatch clearly you've got to conserve the energy it's a pretty critical thing the um it's a little bit like the technique that we used to use in group c racing when we had 100 liters of fuel for each stint sixteenths in a thousand kilometer race and you had to eke out the fuel to get the best combination of lap time but also you didn't want to do more pit stops than you needed to you know it's early days clearly for battery electric vehicles but this is definitely setting the standard and it's great to be part of this record attempt as well that was fun enjoyed it right it's hard though you haven't got any time or delta you just got the guy saying yeah it was 108 you're like okay that worked and you come around again about yeah i was 109 you've not got a sort of a delta in the car so midway around the lap you have no idea whether you're on par for the right time or not so it's tricky but once you get in the rhythm you sort of feel what's the right time and how much speed to carry through each corner i think the track's a bit i wouldn't say dry but i think there's more dry lines but the challenge i just gotta use less energy i'm gonna worry less about the lap time and think bit more about how much energy it's using which is harder than going fast in it really that was really good richard that was uh you're on the delta consumption was better than what we expected so you're obviously very economical out there conditions got a bit better so that's good yeah it helps a bit but it's definitely clear it's still ever so difficult did get the energy used down a bit but it's ever so difficult yeah just practicing on a knack i think but it was it was yeah i mean energy consumption was was a lot lower than first in and i think you'll find that every stint is sort of get to grips i mean how the young guys are doing 107 and with good energy consumption the charging's really quick we've got this huge great charging unit from germany 2.1 megawatts and it's charging these take-hands to 80 in about i think about 20-25 minutes which is really impressive you can see why porsche have won so many sports car races because they've approached this in the same sort of scientific way so yeah it's it's a really fascinating experience we started this morning around 7am and due to finish before 8pm this evening so it's a full day a lot of driving which i only split between three or four of us in the car is uh is quite taxing but um but yeah the the comfort that the taekon provides is nice so it's a lot more comfortable than the race cars we normally used to so yeah like i said we're about halfway through at the moment and uh fingers crossed everything will carry on to run smoothly and we'll end a successful day so what was your usage in on the uh 61.3 oh that's very good so and we went another 10 laps yeah um see we're learning all the while i know yeah so and you know that that is a problem because we haven't tested it no i know anyone has said he's wrong yeah we have 515 laps that we would need to cover to take the 12th and final record which is a thousand kilometer record um but there's 11 other records that are gradually tumbling as we get to that point we're trying to maintain that consistent lap time and the idea is within that lap time we're trying to be as efficient as we possibly can to get the cars around this race circuit in those 515 laps in less than 13 hours i was finding though breaking slightly heavier was actually better yeah because it was then breaking heavier at first and then easing off as you got into the corner so it wasn't sliding yeah the region's so strong i do think that there's there's something to be said for actually breaking there i was finding that i was i was better to just drag my left foot on the brake a little bit for a while and then yeah it was just a bit more in the green to get to the finish i think it's now two stitches we've got to try and get about 70 laps out of each stint which is going to be tough in these conditions druids it's amazing how much grip there is there compared to everywhere else the grip is much more consistent now far better than first thing smaller yes car 70 that was good it was getting close towards the end we only had about 10 15 left but we did it it was a tricky one because obviously we was a little bit behind on time um having done the extra stop so i was trying to go as quick as i could and then looking down and seeing it's eating the battery so yeah we sort of managed it and yeah did it over the past 13 hours we've just set 30 new uk records for evs we've done all with two standard production tycans fully road legal cars still got the number plates on it's a phenomenal achievement not least given that it's in mid-december and it all wouldn't be possible without a phenomenal team of people at porsche well that went spectacularly well as a pretty challenging task to run two evs all day and establish 12 records in fact we've we've managed to do 13 because uh not only did we achieve a thousand kilometers but we also established a record for 12 hours so it's been really amazing i found it really challenging trying to drive as quick as these young professionals or richard atwood to sort of match their lap times but a different ball game trying to be efficient with the energy what really impressed me is how quickly the cars were charged has anybody's got experience of evs they don't necessarily charge as quickly as manufacturers claim they can we were charging the take hands up to 80 20 25 minutes for adding that much juice to them is pretty impressive that's quite an achievement really because 12 hours an awful lot could have gone wrong we could have had trouble with charging the weather's been pretty nasty we didn't get a puncture cars ran perfectly been a fascinating day really interesting and i think these records are going to take quite a bit of beating yeah it's been great fun really good youwelcome to a cold and wet brands hatch i'm colin goodwin and we're here with porsche and two take hands and the job today is to establish some endurance records for evs there's a few records that have been established for electric cars but they are almost all about top speed and acceleration rather than endurance we are hoping to break 12 records and the one that we're really hoping to achieve is thousand kilometers we've got 13 hours of track time to do this which is quite tight we're gonna start at seven o'clock in the morning run throughout the day we've got a curfew at eight o'clock in the evening so if all goes according to plan we'll have established all those records so we've got a 4s and a turbo s two teams of drivers including richard atwood two young drivers who are our current porsche champions jonathan palmer and rob durham from porsche brand's hatch has been the scene of a number of victories for porsche and endurance racing thousand kilometer races and the two we're celebrating and commemorating with our tribute liveries for the victory in 1970 of the 917 with pedro rodriguez at the wheel that plays first in the boac 500 richard atwood and hans hermann in the salzburg car placed third so they had a podium finish in that race 50 years ago this year and the other win that we're celebrating was jonathan palmer and jan lammers in the 956 here at brands hatch with a thousand kilometers of 1984. we have a really good driver lineup so these guys they're used to going fast but they're also proving very very good at understanding how to just maximize their driving style to promote efficiency over the lap which which i think is going to make us the difference it's a totally different ball game we've got a delta lap time to sort of aim at averaging 70 kilowatt hours per 100 miles for energy consumption and that for me that's been the difficult bit we've got some young drivers here all um regular porsche racers and they seem to be able to go around at an amazingly quick pace and not use much energy and i'm finding it really difficult just got in from my first stint in the car back out again later on but really strange and quite unique experience really you're trying to to do laps of brand hatch while trying to save energy yet still trying to go quickly at the same time so it's quite a bit to focus on managing the battery life while accelerating out of corners but not not too quickly so hour and 40 in the car which round brands indy goes quite quickly there's obviously a lot of changes around the circuit and a variety of corners so perfect venue for for the event of what we're trying to do today the weird thing is that whereas you kind of used to come into a corner hot breaks pitch it in what you're doing is having to judge your braking and coming off and just literally carrying every mile an hour in just let it scrub to the apex and then you're just feeding in the power on the exit just being as smooth as possible isn't it yeah and that but that was the aim of the game so early on i was just wasting energy because i was kind of coming out drew is giving a bit of the pedro rodriguez and then took going oh yeah yeah yeah it's downhill now to graham hill hi i'm harry king porsche crow cup gb junior driver today we're here at brands hatch for the electric vehicle 1000 kilometers challenge taking part in the porsche taikan the challenges of driving an electric vehicle so you have to be very efficient with the way you drive obviously the complete opposite compared to what i'm used to and there's a lot of different driving styles and techniques you can use to get the absolute utmost from the vehicle so my teammates colin goodwin and richard atwood are joining me in the porsche thai car richard's got a huge amount of experience in all sorts of motorsports so it's great to be associated with him and you know having a real good time rob durant who was the master buffing behind planning all of today's event came up with a couple of delta lap times or in other words target lap times that we should be looking at and then the salzburg 4s was 1 minute 08 in the turbo s 1 minute 11 seconds which doesn't sound very fast but in in the wet it wasn't particularly easy it's good job the stability so good either going off on the first corner right from the standing start it was all over the place last night expecting it to be that slippery don't think it was a single lap i didn't turn in and just feel the back end sort of just they told me that you said use the outside of clearways yeah that helps a lot yeah because even harry i mean i watched him he's in his sort of early laps but you can see as he sort of turns in you can see i think he found particularly his first up you could really see it move as he went round battery championship and that's just your normal 12-volt uh system tire pressures will be on the display here yeah um you've got your different range modes you like on the uh 911 stay in range yeah stay in range that's just there first time i've driven a battery electric vehicle it's great that it's a porsche the taican is obviously an exceptional car it's uh it's made a big impact on the road and it's uh it's obviously the ideal vehicle to be the first one to try and take a record for battery electric vehicles on the circuit and the thousand kilometer record is so appropriate here at brands hatch clearly you've got to conserve the energy it's a pretty critical thing the um it's a little bit like the technique that we used to use in group c racing when we had 100 liters of fuel for each stint sixteenths in a thousand kilometer race and you had to eke out the fuel to get the best combination of lap time but also you didn't want to do more pit stops than you needed to you know it's early days clearly for battery electric vehicles but this is definitely setting the standard and it's great to be part of this record attempt as well that was fun enjoyed it right it's hard though you haven't got any time or delta you just got the guy saying yeah it was 108 you're like okay that worked and you come around again about yeah i was 109 you've not got a sort of a delta in the car so midway around the lap you have no idea whether you're on par for the right time or not so it's tricky but once you get in the rhythm you sort of feel what's the right time and how much speed to carry through each corner i think the track's a bit i wouldn't say dry but i think there's more dry lines but the challenge i just gotta use less energy i'm gonna worry less about the lap time and think bit more about how much energy it's using which is harder than going fast in it really that was really good richard that was uh you're on the delta consumption was better than what we expected so you're obviously very economical out there conditions got a bit better so that's good yeah it helps a bit but it's definitely clear it's still ever so difficult did get the energy used down a bit but it's ever so difficult yeah just practicing on a knack i think but it was it was yeah i mean energy consumption was was a lot lower than first in and i think you'll find that every stint is sort of get to grips i mean how the young guys are doing 107 and with good energy consumption the charging's really quick we've got this huge great charging unit from germany 2.1 megawatts and it's charging these take-hands to 80 in about i think about 20-25 minutes which is really impressive you can see why porsche have won so many sports car races because they've approached this in the same sort of scientific way so yeah it's it's a really fascinating experience we started this morning around 7am and due to finish before 8pm this evening so it's a full day a lot of driving which i only split between three or four of us in the car is uh is quite taxing but um but yeah the the comfort that the taekon provides is nice so it's a lot more comfortable than the race cars we normally used to so yeah like i said we're about halfway through at the moment and uh fingers crossed everything will carry on to run smoothly and we'll end a successful day so what was your usage in on the uh 61.3 oh that's very good so and we went another 10 laps yeah um see we're learning all the while i know yeah so and you know that that is a problem because we haven't tested it no i know anyone has said he's wrong yeah we have 515 laps that we would need to cover to take the 12th and final record which is a thousand kilometer record um but there's 11 other records that are gradually tumbling as we get to that point we're trying to maintain that consistent lap time and the idea is within that lap time we're trying to be as efficient as we possibly can to get the cars around this race circuit in those 515 laps in less than 13 hours i was finding though breaking slightly heavier was actually better yeah because it was then breaking heavier at first and then easing off as you got into the corner so it wasn't sliding yeah the region's so strong i do think that there's there's something to be said for actually breaking there i was finding that i was i was better to just drag my left foot on the brake a little bit for a while and then yeah it was just a bit more in the green to get to the finish i think it's now two stitches we've got to try and get about 70 laps out of each stint which is going to be tough in these conditions druids it's amazing how much grip there is there compared to everywhere else the grip is much more consistent now far better than first thing smaller yes car 70 that was good it was getting close towards the end we only had about 10 15 left but we did it it was a tricky one because obviously we was a little bit behind on time um having done the extra stop so i was trying to go as quick as i could and then looking down and seeing it's eating the battery so yeah we sort of managed it and yeah did it over the past 13 hours we've just set 30 new uk records for evs we've done all with two standard production tycans fully road legal cars still got the number plates on it's a phenomenal achievement not least given that it's in mid-december and it all wouldn't be possible without a phenomenal team of people at porsche well that went spectacularly well as a pretty challenging task to run two evs all day and establish 12 records in fact we've we've managed to do 13 because uh not only did we achieve a thousand kilometers but we also established a record for 12 hours so it's been really amazing i found it really challenging trying to drive as quick as these young professionals or richard atwood to sort of match their lap times but a different ball game trying to be efficient with the energy what really impressed me is how quickly the cars were charged has anybody's got experience of evs they don't necessarily charge as quickly as manufacturers claim they can we were charging the take hands up to 80 20 25 minutes for adding that much juice to them is pretty impressive that's quite an achievement really because 12 hours an awful lot could have gone wrong we could have had trouble with charging the weather's been pretty nasty we didn't get a puncture cars ran perfectly been a fascinating day really interesting and i think these records are going to take quite a bit of beating yeah it's been great fun really good you\n"