The 2025 Porsche Taycan is Getting Significant Range Improvements

by Chris Teague

Published: July 25th, 2024

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.

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Chris Teague

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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Bd2 on Jul 25, 2024
Maybe it will have enough range to get you out of my life.

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- Original Guy on Jul 25, 2024
  Aren't you a little young to be talking to yourself?
  
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- Big Oil on Jul 25, 2024
  Maybe Paul Simon can work it into a song for you.
  
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GREGORY on Jul 25, 2024
A grand tourer with a 200-mile range was always an oxymoron. You never bought a Porsche as a grocery getter. (Although there have been years when it was my only car.)Telsa and Lucid are the mileage bar; Porsche may as well bite the bullet and make it happen. Until then, an odd, limited-use toy.

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- Dr Mindbender on Jul 26, 2024
  That is what I always felt about the Taycan. Porsches are all superior GT cars, and have large tanks to keep up the speed on the Autobahn. I feel that 400 is a good range for a car, all 3 of my Porsches can easily do this. The Taycan't get any good range, especially at Autobahn speeds, how far can it go...100 miles? The Taycan is a 4 door Porsche with no ability to Cannonball. The real hope is that swapping batteries becomes at least as easy as engine swaps, and that new solid-state batteries cost less than a crate engine...whoa, of in never never land now...
  
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