2025 Porsche Macan EV: What Do You Want To Know?
I’m about to drive the all-new and all-electric 2025 Porsche Macan 4 and Macan Turbo. The automaker is completely retooling its most popular vehicle for its second generation. Gone are the internal combustion engines and PDK gearboxes. In its place are powerful-as-hell electric motors. Before I drive these cars around the south of France on very little sleep, I want to know what you want to know about them.
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What sorts of questions are keeping you up at night about Porsche’s latest compact crossover? Do you want to know why Porsche decided to go all-electric for this new model? How about if it’ll be as good a performer as its predecessor? I bet you’d like to know if it can justify its new very-high price tag. All of these things and more are questions I can (probably answer).
Anyway, let’s get a few boilerplate things out of the way first. I’ll be driving two cars here in France: the Macan 4 and the Macan Turbo (yes, Porsche is sticking with the Turbo nameplate on its EVs, get over it.) The Macan 4 starts at $78,800, and it gets you 382 horsepower (402 using launch control) and 479 lb-ft of torque via two motors with juice provided by a 100 kWh battery. If that somehow isn’t enough oomph for you, feel free to step up to the Macan Turbo. This bad boy starts at $105,300, but you get 576 horsepower (630 using launch control) and an eye watering 833 lb-ft of torque with power from a 100 kWh battery. The Macan 4 and Macan Turbo will hit 0-60 mph in 4.9 and 3.1 seconds, respectively. That’ll get her done for sure. Porsche has yet to release range numbers for either car, but some testing has already been done.
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Let’s talk about the price for a moment. It’s pretty high, I will admit. In fact, the cheapest Macan is now just $400 cheaper than a base model Cayenne, but there’s probably a good reason for that. First of all, electric motors and batteries aren’t cheap, so it was never going to be as affordable as the previous car and its little VW-derived four-popper (which started at $62,550). Second, you get a lot more as standard on the new cars. I’m talking stuff like air suspension with PSAM, 20-inch wheels, a panoramic room, lane change assist, lane keep assist and adaptive cruise control. That’s all standard on the Macan 4 now.
The Macan Turbo gets even more, like Porsche Torque Vectoring Plus, surround view cameras, a Bose audio system, sports seats and a carbon fiber interior package. So, you’re paying more, but you also get more. We also don’t know right now if a cheaper Macan is coming at some point, but I’ll try to find out for you folks.
You can also add options that were never available on the previous Macan, like a heads-up display, a passenger screen and rear-axle steering. Neat!
Anyway, why don’t you all drop down below and let me know what you want to know about the all-new 2025 Porsche Macan 4 and Macan Turbo?
