Tacan on a track day ?

[ChrisW.]

Can anybody say:

1. How many miles on track might be possible from a fully charged battery ?

2. Silverstone has fast chargers, how practical would it be to run sessions and recharge between ?

3. At what point might the car or battery overheat ?

4. Would there be any prospect of thermal runaway ?

I ask because this was a sensible question asked at the Oulton Park trackday last Friday ... I have my opinion but only based on my trackday mpg and the performance of my Stihl electric lawnmower .... !

[Grantstown]

One of the guys on the Fb owners group managed 16 track days last year, so you could join that group if you’re thinking of tracking your Taycan. It was a Turbo S, so all the toys.

[gtsralph]

Sure you can Chris, here’s a Taycan behind a vintage Bentley behind a Mustang on a wet Goodwood track day

[kemik77]

Always check with the actual track you want to go on first

Some won't allow any electric cars on track due to the safety issues in handling them in an accident apparently

[FTW]

A Taycan can do roughly 1.1 flying laps of the ring before derate, assuming Silverstone is about 6km and the ring 20km it will do three laps of Silverstone GP by which point I wager the brakes will need a thorough cooldown PCCB or not.

[AB]

Just to echo what is said above, check they will let you on the track. Last one I did only told me I couldn't during the driver briefing. I'd only brought it on the off chance so used my 911 instead.

[SV_WDC]

gtsralph said:

Sure you can Chris, here’s a Taycan behind a vintage Bentley behind a Mustang on a wet Goodwood track day

I absolutely love the green in that model. Probably the best thing about the Taycan which says a lot.

[ChrisW.]

FTW said:

A Taycan can do roughly 1.1 flying laps of the ring before derate, assuming Silverstone is about 6km and the ring 20km it will do three laps of Silverstone GP by which point I wager the brakes will need a thorough cooldown PCCB or not.

This was the gist of my question ... if I use four times more fuel on track than I do on the road and the Tacan has a max range of 300 miles, that would imply a range of max 75 miles from full to zero.

BUT, if rapid discharge creates heat and rapid charge creates heat and Li-Ion batteries can suffer thermal runaway above 60C and are therefore cooled (wasting more energy), what might be the real range on track assuming that you don't have to drive home ... or how long might you need to wait before recharging ?

In the case of my Stihl electric lawnmower, after it's second full discharge it was six hours before the Stihl charger would re-charge it ...

[Grantstown]

It can do 4 sessions at Goodwood and reach >150mph. Probably better than the lawnmower mentioned. The things some folk worry about when cutting the grass.

[Grantstown]

It can do 4 sessions at Goodwood and reach >150mph. Probably better than the lawnmower mentioned. The things some folk worry about when cutting the grass.

[ChrisW.]

So how many laps would that be and how much range did you have left ?

Were you able to charge the car straight afterwards or did you have to wait ? Or didn't you need to ? Or did you charge between sessions ??