The renewed Porsche Taycan will go further and charge faster than ever | Top Vip News

Porsche’s first electric car is getting a facelift to dramatically improve its range, performance and fast charging capabilities. As rival EVs get larger batteries and improved charging architectures, Porsche intends to stay on top with the refreshed Taycan sports sedan.

The 2025 Taycan comes in two body styles: the sports sedan and the Cross Turismo wagon, each with four powertrain options, as well as rear- and all-wheel drive variants. The sedans, priced from $101,395 to $210,995, will be available this fall. Cross Turismo models, available later this fall, start at $113,095 and go up to $213,695.

The 2023 Taycan came with two battery configurations: 79kWh and 93kWh. For the 2025 model year, Porsche also now offers a 105 kWh gross capacity battery as part of its Performance Battery Plus package. (The company did not detail how much of that capacity would be usable.)

Porsche also claims that the 2025 Taycan will be one of the fastest-charging electric vehicles on the road, holding the corner to go from zero to 80 percent in just 18 minutes. This is an improvement of several minutes over other electric vehicles with 800-volt architectures, such as the Hyundai Ioniq 6 and Kia EV6.

In fact, the new Taycan will be able to charge at 800-volt DC charging stations at up to 320 kW, a 50 kW improvement over the previous model. Several charging providers have begun installing stations across the country that can provide electrons at speeds of up to 350 kW for faster charging sessions.

The new high-performance battery can support higher charge rates for longer than before, even at lower temperatures. Porsche also offers a 150 kW DC/DC converter, which aims to optimize charging speeds on 400-volt networks, as standard for the Taycan.

Overall, the new Taycan will be more efficient than previous models due to a variety of factors:

• A new advanced propulsion system with a new rear axle motor with up to 80 kW more power than its predecessor on all models.
• A modified pulse inverter with optimized software
• More powerful batteries
• Revised thermal management
• A latest generation heat pump
• A modified recovery and all-wheel drive strategy

It is worth highlighting the modified recovery. Porsche says the maximum recovery capacity when decelerating from high speeds has increased by more than 30 percent, from 290 to 400 kW. Additionally, all variants of the facelifted Taycan will come standard with specially developed and aerodynamically optimized 21-inch wheels and reduced rolling resistance tires.

All of this improved efficiency allows Porsche to shave crucial seconds (or milliseconds) off the Taycan’s zero-to-60 mph sprint time. The automaker claims that all variants will be noticeably faster than their predecessors.

For example, the rear-wheel drive Taycan now accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 4.5 seconds, making it 0.6 seconds faster than before. Meanwhile, the new Taycan Turbo S sedan will be able to reach 100 km/h in just 2.3 seconds, 0.3 seconds faster than before. This makes it “the fastest production car Porsche has offered to date,” the company claims.

The fastest and “most powerful”, according to the company. The Taycan Turbo S, for example, gets an extra 140 kW when using launch control mode. This increases the system power of the top model to 700 kW or 938 horsepower.

And in a move apparently drawn from Fast and Furious In the franchise, Porsche offers the option to include a “push to pass” button that provides a 10-second boost of up to 70 kW, or the equivalent of about 94 horsepower. Eat my dust, Toretto!

In terms of design, the renewed Taycan has new headlights and taillights, as well as new front fenders. Inside you can find new brushed aluminum door sill protectors. And you can opt for a leather-free interior that swaps cowhide for a high-quality microfiber material called Race-Tex.

Porsche hasn’t released any official range estimates at this time, although it did so recently. perform range testing in Southern California with some media outlets in which a prototype traveled an impressive 364 miles (587 km) on a single charge. (In less ideal conditions, such as bad weather, the Taycan achieved around 300 miles of range, According to Patricio George of Inside electric vehicles.)

Porsche says Apple CarPlay has been “more deeply integrated into the vehicle’s displays and functions” in the updated Taycan. Porsche has said it will be among the first automakers to introduce the new immersive version of CarPlay, and now it looks like the Taycan will be the guinea pig. A new “In-Car Video” function allows video streaming on the center screen and passenger screen.

Since it was first introduced in 2019, Porsche says it has built almost 150,000 Taycans, with the United States, Germany, China and the United Kingdom being the main markets for the high-end electric sedan.

The refreshed Taycan makes a statement about what we can expect from Porsche’s future lineup of electric vehicles. The all-electric Macan SUV will go on sale later this year, followed by electric versions of the two-seater 718 and a plug-in Cayenne. The carmaker has also said it is working on a new electric SUV that will complete the range.