The 2025 Porsche Taycan is Getting Significant Range Improvements
The Porsche Taycan is one of the most stunning performance EVs around, but it’s never offered the best range estimates to go with its breathtaking acceleration. That’s changing for the 2025 model year, as the base Taycan with an upgraded battery will be able to travel 318 miles on a charge.
The base-base model with an 89 kWh battery is rated at 274 miles, a 66-mile increase over the outgoing model. The largest gains came with the uprated 105 kWh battery-equipped base model, which climbed 76 miles to a 318-mile range. Most variants are all-wheel drive, but those two sport rear-drive and one motor, aiding their increased range.
Porsche bumped the battery pack sizes for 2025, moving from a 70 kWh for some to the 89 kWh pack seen now. Performance Plus models’ batteries went from 93 kWh to 105. Additionally, the cars got improved rear-motor performance, better regenerative braking, and likely a boost to the cars’ thermal management systems to improve range and charging times.
It's hard to celebrate a six-figure EV, but improved range is a significant benefit for potential Taycan buyers. The car’s out-of-this-world performance always felt like an unfair tradeoff for range, as its practicality has been greatly diminished by such a short driving distance.
[Images: Porsche]
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Chris grew up in, under, and around cars, but took the long way around to becoming an automotive writer. After a career in technology consulting and a trip through business school, Chris began writing about the automotive industry as a way to reconnect with his passion and get behind the wheel of a new car every week. He focuses on taking complex industry stories and making them digestible by any reader. Just don’t expect him to stay away from high-mileage Porsches.
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