Just Ordered A Taycan? Here Are Production Facts That Will Blow Your Mind

If you’ve ever been to Zuffenhausen, it is in quite a central urban location, is a major thoroughfare for traffic and sits alongside residential and commercial developments. Not the place for a car factory. But for symbolic reasons, Porsche has chosen to work within its limitations to continue building not just its current models but also its all-electric Taycan, which required a new factory.

OneShift Editorial Team

07 Jul 2022

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If you’ve ever been to Zuffenhausen, you’d realise it’s not what you’d expect of a car factory. It is in quite a central urban location, is a major thoroughfare for traffic and sits alongside residential and commercial developments.

But for symbolic reasons, Porsche has chosen to work within its limitations to continue building not just its current models but also its all-electric Taycan, which required a new factory.

Here are some amazing facts we learnt from a private tour of the Taycan factory:

Around 1 billion Euros was spent to build the new Taycan factory in Zuffenhausen.

It is completely CO₂-neutral.

Porsche Centre Stuttgart, which is just across from the Porsche Museum currently, will soon be relocated to make way for more production facilities.

Driverless robots whisk parts silently around the factory.

As part of internal feedback to further improve working conditions, the factory floor for the door-fitting part of the production line was lowered so as to make for more ergonomic working conditions as technicians fit the doors.

You can’t tell the Taycan Cross Turismo and Sport Turismo apart on the production line visually until the final stages where body panels are fitted. Once black plastic trims are fitted - you'll know its the more rugged Cross Turismo.

The seats of the Taycan are not made in Zuffenhausen. They are made elsewhere and then brought in.

If a Taycan has red brake calipers, one can definitely tell it has electric motors on the front and rear axle - as it is not the base Taycan with only motors at the rear.

Taycans with the Frozen Berry colour are destined mostly for China.

1% of all Taycans produced are road tested on the Autobahn before it goes to customer hands.

There are highly skilled apprentices that are able to detect just 1mm imperfection in paint after the Taycan is painted. The car would be sent back for rectification if there is this small fault.

Emu feathers are used to brush the Taycan’s base coat so as to remove as many imperfections as possible.

If metallic paint is specified, the Taycan receives metallic flakes from an additional robot painter.

Every Taycan produced is unique and destined for a customer.

Each Taycan is fully charged before it reaches the customer.

For the convenience of technicians, the machine holding the Taycan chassis can rotate the car by up to 110 degrees.

All front and rear windscreens are automatically installed by machines, and they even apply the glue by themselves. After completing the job, the glue nozzle is cleaned automatically onto a piece of tissue roll and the process repeats.

Credits: Text by James Wong; Photos by Porsche