Porsche Taycan Sets Guinness Record for Longest Drift in an Electric Car

• A Porsche driving instructor in Germany drifted a Taycan EV for 26.2 miles—yes, the length of a marathon.
• This was good for the (apparently inaugural) Guinness world record for longest drift in an electric vehicle.
• The car used was a China-market rear-wheel-drive Taycan.

Think you're a hotshot because you once kicked out the tail on your Monte Carlo and held it there for two complete laps around the unplowed parking lot of that abandoned Circuit City? Well, you are. That was sick.

But you've been one-upped in a big way by a guy named Dennis Retera, a Porsche driving instructor in Germany. He got sideways on a wet skidpad at the Porsche Experience Centre Hockenheimring and didn't stop slidin' till he'd covered 26.2 miles. When we say this was a marathon drift session, we mean literally. Unlike the apocryphal messenger who ran from Marathon to Athens and then promptly died, Retera was just fine. Maybe slightly carsick. And Porsche had its record.

To set the record, Porsche rolled out a China-market rear-wheel-drive Taycan. They didn't specify which version, but that single-motor iteration is available with either 402 or 469 horsepower and a battery rated at either 79.2 kWh or 93.4 kWh. We'd guess that when you're planning to drive sideways for an hour, you want the big battery, if not necessarily the big motor. The irrigated skidpad allowed for relatively low speeds (and sufficient tread life for the tires) but also upped the challenge for Retera, since the grip tended to be inconsistent.