Paddy's EV of the year: the Porsche Taycan

Without question my favourite electric car of 2021 is the Porsche Taycan. The thing about the Taycan that just blew me away was because it’s electric you don’t expect it to feel like a proper Porsche, and then you get in it and it does. And then you start driving it and it really really does.

It’s a car I just loved driving, so much so I asked if I could keep it a little bit longer. Handling aside, it’s so bloody quick – I had the Turbo S, and honestly, it was actually painful on full throttle – not sure I need all that to be honest. I’d probably go for something a bit gentler, a Taycan 4S is plenty.

Anyway, it’s a car that made me breathe a sigh of relief, once the g-force had stopped, because for blokes of a certain mindset, like me, who can’t imagine a world without petrol engines, it proved there’s still going to be fun to be had when everything’s battery powered.

It looks good too, doesn’t it, not too futuristic, not too showy, doesn’t have any daft wheels on it that say ‘ooooh look at me, I’m an electric car’. It’s just right. Plus, I thoroughly enjoyed trolling R8 drivers in it all day long.