Range anxiety? Pfft. Try a 3,000-mile road trip.
The journey from one side of the USA to another has become infamous over the years; you only need look at the recent inclusion ofinto the National Historic Vehicle Register for proof of that. Alongside the oldest known jeep in the world and the first Indy 500 winner sits a car from a goofy comedy, because everybody loves the mystique of driving almost 3,000 miles from one US coast to another. That allure continues into the EV age, too, albeit without the car chases. Or the 12 exhaust pipes.
Porsche has claimed a Guinness World Record for the least time spent charging to cross the United States in an EV. Which, admittedly, will make the Taycan less notorious than any of the supercars used over the decades for New York to LA, but does have a tad more relevance for real-world customers. Using the Electrify America and Plug Share apps, driver Wayne Gerdes was able to spend just two hours, 26 minutes and 48 seconds charging to drive 2,834.5 miles.
Gerdes said of this record:"I'm proud and honestly a little surprised to have set the new benchmark by such a margin. The Taycan performed even better than expected... I'm grateful to both Porsche for supporting me and to Electrify America's network, which made it possible." With both the US coast-to-coast and
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