{"id":349328,"date":"2019-09-25T14:26:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T14:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/?p=349328"},"modified":"2024-12-08T03:40:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T03:40:39","slug":"the-porsche-taycan-hennessey-performances-first-electric-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/the-porsche-taycan-hennessey-performances-first-electric-car\/","title":{"rendered":"The Porsche Taycan, Hennessey Performance&#8217;s First Electric Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">You Can Bet This One Will be Fast<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/the-porsche-taycan-officially-debuts\/\">Porsche Taycan<\/a> will be the first electric car that the Texas-based tuner company Hennessey Performance will modify and sell. CEO John Hennessey confirmed this by saying, <strong>&#8220;We felt that the new Porsche Taycan was the right platform from which to modify our first EV.&#8221;<\/strong> It will be interesting to see how bonkers this Hennessey creation is. The company is known for making fast cars go faster, and we&#8217;d expect the mission will not be any different for an electric car.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hennessey didn&#8217;t go into specifics but he said that the changes would be simple ones. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carscoops.com\/2019\/09\/modified-porsche-taycan-will-be-hennesseys-first-electric-vehicle\/\">Carscoops<\/a>, he hinted that updates will include new tires and wheels as well as some exterior updates. Carscoops suspects there will be some interior updates as well. <strong>While all that sounds good, what we really want to know about are the performance boosts.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hennessey-porsche-taycan-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-349329 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hennessey-porsche-taycan-3.jpg\" alt=\"Porsche Taycan Hennessey\" width=\"1920\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hennessey-porsche-taycan-3.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hennessey-porsche-taycan-3-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hennessey-porsche-taycan-3-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hennessey-porsche-taycan-3-100x50.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hennessey-porsche-taycan-3-770x385.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hennessey-porsche-taycan-3-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hennessey-porsche-taycan-3-585x293.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hennessey-porsche-taycan-3-1170x585.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hennessey-porsche-taycan-3-1500x750.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hennessey-porsche-taycan-3-293x147.jpg 293w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hennessey-porsche-taycan-3-1400x700.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear what kinds of power increases the company will be able to produce, and there&#8217;s no indication from Porsche or Hennessey as to what a tune Taycan will really be capable of. All that was said on the topic by John Hennessey was, <strong>&#8220;we will see what might be possible in terms of adding more power.&#8221;<\/strong> We would expect the tuner company to figure out something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Can Bet This One Will be Fast The Porsche Taycan will be the first electric car that the Texas-based tuner company Hennessey Performance will modify and sell. CEO John Hennessey confirmed this by saying, &#8220;We felt that the new Porsche Taycan was the right platform from which to modify our first EV.&#8221; It will be interesting to see how bonkers this Hennessey creation is. 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