---
title: "Porsche Releases Video on How to Properly Pronounce ‘Taycan’"
description: "Porsh-ah tie-khan. Or is it tay-khan?"
date: "2018-12-24"
modified: "2018-12-24"
authors:
  - name: "Chris Tsui"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/chris-tsui"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/25542/porsche-releases-video-on-how-to-properly-pronounce-taycan"
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tags:
  - "Electric Cars"
  - "Electric Vehicle"
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  - "How To Pronounce"
  - "luxury"
  - "porsche"
  - "Porsche Taycan"
  - "sedan"
  - "Taycan"
---

# Porsche Releases Video on How to Properly Pronounce ‘Taycan’

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Porsche is preparing to introduce its first electric car to take on Tesla. But before it does that, the automaker thought we'd all benefit from a crash-course on how to pronounce the thing's name.

Initially known as the Mission E—a simple name clear in intention that really shouldn't cause any confusion phonetically—[Porsche's future EV will be known as the Taycan](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/21413/the-mission-e-has-a-real-name-meet-the-porsche-taycan>). Much like Porsche itself [(that's porsh-ah, by the way)](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im2eYuGdmfY>), Taycan isn't all that straightforward to figure out when it comes to its proper pronunciation.

https://youtube.com/embed/t8oixMu703s

Tie-khan. Tie. Khan. Tie as in necktie. Khan as in [Kanye West](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92FCRmggNqQ&feature=youtu.be&t=175>). Or [gymkhana](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/25540/gymkhana-10-ken-block-shreds-tires-around-the-world-in-his-final-hooning-hoorah>).

Not taken. Not tay-can. Not tiken. *Tie-khan.*

I'm no phonics expert but by this logic, shouldn't the Cayman be pronounced, er, kai-mon?

The Porsche Taycan will be a long, sloping luxury sedan similar in ethos to the Tesla Model S and [be priced somewhere in between](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/24294/porsche-aims-to-price-taycan-between-cayenne-and-panamera>) the Cayenne (kai-yen) and Panamera (pan-amera). Thanks to some low-mounted batteries, the car is said to [have a lower center of gravity](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/25091/porsche-taycan-to-have-lower-center-of-gravity-than-911>) than the 911 (nine-eleven). Apparently able to add [62 miles of charge in just four minutes](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/25136/porsche-taycan-can-add-62-miles-of-driving-range-in-just-4-minutes>), the Taycan will share tech with the [Audi e-tron GT](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/25162/the-audi-e-tron-gt-is-bringing-the-high-performance-electric-car-fight-to-tesla>) and perhaps even [Bentley's first EV](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/24573/bentleys-first-electric-vehicle-might-use-the-porsche-taycan-platform>).

A lifted, off-road wagon version called the [Cross Turismo has also been approved for production](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/24349/porsche-mission-e-cross-turismo-greenlit-for-production>).

Porsche says the Taycan name, by the way, is Turkish in origin and loosely translates to "lively young horse." That's pronounced lie-vlee

yung hoarse.

## Author
Chris Tsui is *The Drive*'s former Reviews Editor and current freelance automotive journalist. He's based in Toronto.

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