Porsche Taycan 2027: E-Shift adds eight fake gears to make the EV feel like an ICE car
A. Krivonosov для 32CARS.RU
The 2027 Taycan adds a virtual eight-speed gearbox with paddle-driven shifts, drag torque and a rev limiter — software-only, but built to feel like a combustion car.
Porsche is adding more driver emotion to the Taycan. As Motor1 reports, the 2027 model-year EV gets the E-Shift system — a simulation of eight gears that can be swapped via the steering-wheel paddles. There is no real gearbox with those ratios: it’s a software effect. The option is available on every version and comes standard on the flagship Turbo GT.
The system reshapes throttle response, sound and the feel of acceleration so the Taycan behaves more like a combustion car with an automatic. In Manual mode the driver picks the virtual ratios with the paddles, while in automatic the electronics handle it on their own. The mimicry comes as a full package: a noticeable jolt at each shift, engine-braking-style drag torque when you lift off, and a virtual rev limiter — miss the upshift and the car will deliver a proper “fuel cut” sensation.
An EV doesn’t technically need any of this. People value electric cars precisely for smooth, uninterrupted thrust. But Porsche is chasing emotion: a slice of performance-car buyers misses the mechanical sense of speed, the sound and the act of shifting. The Hyundai Ioniq 5 N made the case first, and now Porsche has picked the idea up.
The 2027 Taycan update goes beyond E-Shift. Every version gets the Performance Battery Plus 105 kWh pack as standard, a reworked Electric Sport Sound, the new Digital Interaction infotainment system and a native NACS port on the passenger side for fast charging in North America.
