Porsche Taycan dashboard is a work of art

The high-tech dashboard of the upcoming Porsche Taycan has been fully unveiled, showing it will do more than just offer over 50 million songs via Apple Music for the first time in a car.

Featuring no fewer than five digital displays, Porsche’s first all-electric vehicle will present its driver with a curved, configurable 16.8-inch instrument cluster punctuated by a traditional three-dial layout and large central speedo.

Wider than the steering wheel and positioned behind real glass and a vapour-deposited, polarising filter to reduce reflection, the all-digital instrument panel will allow driver to choose between four display modes.

These include Classic mode, in which a power meter replaces the tacho in the centre; Map mode, which swaps this for a central navigation map; Full Map mode, which covers the entire display with a map; and Pure mode, which displays only essential driving information like speed, traffic signs and navigation using a minimalist arrow.

But there will also be two central screens, including a lower console-mounted touch-screen to manage all battery functions, below an upper 10.9-inch infotainment display with haptic feedback and handwriting recognition.

It also serves as a homepage to access navigation, music, phone, settings, Apple CarPlay, charging, climate, devices, weather, messaging and other services.

As an option, the upper screen extends seamlessly into a flush-fitting full-width display that houses a large horizontal touch-screen ahead of the front passenger, showing graphic displays of all these functions.

Bringing the number of interior screens to five is a 5.9-inch rear display for the optional four-zone automatic Advanced Climate Control system.

As such, the number of traditional hardware controls like switches and buttons is greatly reduced, and replaced by what Porsche says are intelligent and intuitive controls – either touch or voice, the latter activated by saying ‘Hey Porsche’ – just like Mercedes.

There will be two steering wheel options – a basic version that can be customised with coloured inserts, or an optional GT sports version with visible screw heads and a trademark round mode switch select drive modes.

Porsche says the Taycan interior will be highly customisable via a wide range of colours and materials, including the option of “sustainably tanned Club Leather OLEA”, which uses olive leaves in the tanning process.

Exclusive interior colours will include Black-Lime Beige, Blackberry, Atacama Beige and Meranti Brown, while optional accent packages allow buyers to contrast these with black matt, dark silver or neodyme, an elegant champagne tone. The doors and centre consoles can be had in wood trim, matt carbon, embossed aluminium or fabric.

Also available for the first time in a Porsche will be a fully leather-free interior trim called ‘Race-Tex’ -- a microfibre material partly consisting of recycled polyester fibres, the production of which is claimed to emit 80 per cent less CO2 than traditional materials.

On the Taycan floor, there’s an ‘Econyl’ covering that Porsche says is made from recycled fishing nets, among other things.

Porsche revealed the fancy, environmentally friendlier interior of the Tesla-fighting Taycan -- which will be fully revealed on September 4 (12:30am AEST on Thursday, September 5 in Australia) -- just days after it travelled almost 3500km in 24 hours in high-speed durability testing.

Due on sale in Australia late next year, Porsche has also revealed the mid-size sedan, which will slot beneath the Panamera in terms of both size and price, will deliver hypercar-troubling performance including a 0-200km/h sprint time of less than 10 seconds.

In its initial form, with two electric motors, all-wheel drive and more than 450kW, it should also hit 100km/h in less than three seconds, although Porsche remains cagey on exact acceleration numbers.

As with all its other models, Porsche is expected to offer a range of Taycan variants, including a rear-wheel drive entry model priced under $200,000.

“The Taycan interior combines design elements typical for the brand with a new type of user experience, and impresses with its simple elegance,” said Ivo van Hulten, Director Interior Design Style Porsche at Porsche AG.