2025 Porsche Taycan Is Quicker To Accelerate, Faster To Charge And Better To Look At

It’s a bit hard to believe that the Porsche Taycan has now been out for almost five years, with nearly 150,000 of the brand’s first EV having reached the hands of customers. While the Taycan still looks spectacular and remains the driver’s choice among EVs, it’s fallen a bit behind in terms of efficiency and tech. Enter the face-lifted 2025 Taycan, which Porsche promises is improved in every way.

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Porsche hasn’t released full specs for the Taycan lineup yet, but every version should be quicker than before. The base rear-drive Taycan is up by 80 horsepower for a total of 482 hp, bringing the 0-to-60-mph down by 0.6 seconds to 4.5 seconds. The top-of-the-line Taycan Turbo S now produces a whopping 938 hp with launch control active, an increase of 187 horses, and it’ll hit 60 mph in 2.3 seconds, making it the quickest and most powerful production Porsche ever made. Porsche also upped the power of the Sport Chrono package’s push-to-pass function; it can now provide a boost of up to 94 hp for 10 seconds.

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The Performance Battery Plus, which is optional on the base and 4S models but standard on the Turbos, now has a capacity of 105 kWh, up from 93 kWh. Porsche says the Taycan can now be charged at up to 320 kW, which is 50 kW greater than before and faster than any other EV you can currently buy. That’s enough for the Taycan to go from 10 to 80 percent charge in just 18 minutes, and Porsche says it can sustain higher charging speeds for longer periods of time. Like the Macan EV, the updated Taycan has a 150-kW DC/DC converter that optimizes charging speeds on 400-volt charger by effectively splitting the battery pack in two and charging them in parallel.

We don’t have EPA range figures yet — Porsche doesn’t even give European WLTP estimates in its release — but we already know the 2025 Taycan will have a longer range in addition to being faster to charge. On a recent real-world range test a base 2025 Taycan achieved 365 miles of highway range, and even a Turbo on 21s saw 345 miles. EPA ranges should reach, if not exceed, at least 300 miles for all models. The 2025 Taycan can also achieve up to 400 kW of energy recuperation under braking, up from the 290 kW of the old car, but it still won’t have one-pedal driving.

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Porsche says the 2025 Taycan has a new pulse inverter, a next-gen heat pump, a more powerful rear motor, more powerful batteries, revised thermal management and new tuning for the all-wheel-drive system, all of which have improved both efficiency and performance. Adaptive air suspension is now standard on every Taycan, and it’s available with the incredible Porsche Active Ride suspension system that debuted on the third-generation Panamera, which minimizes pitch and roll and provides a super smooth ride.

The Taycan’s front fenders and hood are flatter and sharper, and the front bumper has a sleeker design with horizontal intakes. Its headlights and taillights have also been redesigned, with the former getting a flatter look with more futuristic four-point running lights and the latter getting a 3D design that looks like glass and the option of an illuminated Porsche script. The Turbo models get Turbonite accents and their own bumpers with more angular intakes, and there are a bunch of fresh aerodynamically optimized wheel designs and new colors like Shade Green, which was taken from the 911 Dakar.

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There are fewer visual changes inside. You can now get more leather-free options, including two that combine Race-Tex microfiber with wool seat inserts that have Porsche’s retro Pepita houndstooth pattern. Video streaming is now available through the center and optional passenger displays, and the Taycan is running Porsche’s latest Android Automotive OS–based infotainment system. The Taycan also has greater integration with Apple CarPlay, which can now control more of the cars functions and take over all of the screens.

Powered dual exterior charging ports, ambient interior lighting, a heated steering steering wheel, a new cooling system, power-folding mirrors, a wireless charging pad, lane-change assist and Porsche’s Intelligent Range Manager are now standard on every Taycan.

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The 2025 Taycan sedan will reach dealers this summer with the Cross Turismo wagon following in the fall, and prices have gone up across the board. The base rear-drive Taycan sedan now starts at $101,395 (including a greater $1,995 destination charge), an increase of $8,845, and the Taycan 4 Cross Turismo costs $113,095, up by $9,545. The new 4S sedan is $120,495 ($7,145 more) and the 4S Cross Turismo is $127,195 ($7,345 more), while the Turbo sedan costs $175,595 ($13,145 more) and the Turbo Cross Turismo is $178,295 ($13,245 more). Finally, the Turbo S sedan and Cross Turismo will set you back $210,995 or $213,695, respectively, $14,445 and $14,545 more than before.

As usual, Porsche will grow the lineup pretty quickly. Europe still gets the cladding-free Sport Turismo wagon, which the U.S. previously only got in GTS guise — the updated Taycan GTS could arrive later this year, or early in 2025. Most excitingly, in a few months Porsche will reveal the Taycan Turbo GT, a tri-motor beast that recently set the EV Nürburgring lap record. Expect that model to cost close to $300,000.