Top 10
The best new tech heading your way
1 PORSCHE MAYCAN
●From £69,800, porsche.com
Porsche’s headlong dive into the EV space has been nothing short of stunning thus far. The awesome Taycan has basically knocked Tesla off of its high horse, with equivalent models managing to silence the Stuttgart company’s electric rival and excite drivers in equal measure. Cramming a battery into the established Maycan frame is Porsche’s next trick – and it might well shame the highly popular and really very good Tesla Model Y.
It might feel unfair to compare the two so directly, but look at the specs: the two cars are virtually the same length (the two new Maycan models are just over an inch longer), the same wheelbase, the same width and the same ride height. They want the same drivers. And while Porsche has made the base Maycan 4 over 330 kilos heavier than the stock Model Y, it’s also slathered on a high level of luxury.
Perhaps most importantly, the Maycan 4 and Maycan Turbo mark the debut of the VW Group’s Premium Platform Electric EV architecture, the same 800-volt drivetrain we’ll be seeing on the Audi Q6 E-Tron and other candidate vehicles in the coming years. That nets it a charging architecture that can jump from 10% to 80% in 21 minutes – or grab an extra 60 miles’ range in four.
The EV market is truly hotting up. Competition makes every industry stronger, and we can’t wait to see what Porsche’s rivals fire back with.
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“Porsche is here setting a new real-world standard for EVs”
2 PHILIPS A6219
●£TBC, philips.co.uk
The death of the 3.5mm jack socket was inevitable, sadly. We must deal with it. But we as a society should never have to deal with the ignominy of being left without tunes because we’ve forgotten to charge our wireless headphones. If we can’t plug them in to our devices, the logical alternative is to create headphones that never need charging at all – and Philips has done
