It’s official – the Porsche Taycan now owns the Guinness World Record for the longest continuous vehicle drift for an EV on ice.
The record, which was set in mid-January at Porsche’s Arctic Center in Levi, Finland located about 93 miles (150 km) north of the Arctic Circle, was a controlled drift for 17.053 kilometers (10.59 miles) using only throttle and steering inputs. The distance is equivalent to 132 laps of the 59-meter (193.5-foot) drifting circle used for the attempt.
The car, a Taycan GTS sedan, was driven by Porsche instructor Jens Richter who bested the old record of 14.809 kilometers (8.75 miles). The car was outfitted with Michelin tires with one-millimeter spikes and was equipped with a professional GPS measuring device to track the route precisely. In addition to the car’s movements, the GPS tracker recorded steering wheel inputs, acceleration, braking and G-forces.
Guinness World Records officials were on site to oversee the attempt, and they presented Richter and Christian Lehwald, Managing Director of the Porsche Arctic Center with an official certificate afterwards.
The Taycan now holds four Guinness World records. In 2023, a Taycan Cross Turismo set the greatest altitude change record for an EV at 5,573 meters (18,284.1 feet) while driving a route from Xinjiang to Tibet. In 2021, racing driver Leh Keen hit 165.1 km/h (102.5 mph) at an exhibition hall in New Orleans in a Taycan Turbo S, setting the record for the fastest speed driven by a vehicle in an enclosed building. Lastly, in 2020 Dennis Retera, a Porsche instructor, set the record for the longest continuous drift in an EV when he did 210 laps in a Taycan at the Porsche Experience Center in Hockenheimring, Germany. The record covered 42.171 kilometers (26.2 miles) in 55 minutes.
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