Five years after its debut, Porsche felt that the Taycan needed a facelift, with a few tweaks to make the recipe even more solid. And in true Stuttgart style, engineers and designers have found room for improvement.
The facelifted Porsche Taycan facelift with an electric motor and the Battery Performance Plus option accompanied us on our EUROCHARGE by Schaeffler tour, which covered almost 9,000 kilometers from Bucharest to Lisbon and back. Below you’ll find full information about the actual range, actual consumption, charging costs and time spent at stations.
Porsche Taycan: energy consumption, actual range, charging costs
The average cost per kWh is between €0.39 – €1 and the average cost per kilometer is between €0.09 – €0.18. The costs are given as a range as they vary depending on the application used/subscription of each user.
Impressions of those who drove the Porsche Taycan in EUROCHARGE by Schaeffler
Adrian Mitrea (0-100.ro)
The Porsche Taycan (facelift) reconfirms its status as the absolute leader for what technology means on electric cars. In #EUROCHARGE by Schaeffler we have so far tested very little of what this model can do. But essentially what I’ve taken away is this: it charges faster than ever (up to 320 kW), consumes less fuel (than before the facelift) and has, by implication, a longer range.
What I can say is that I made it from outside my house in Bucharest to Brasov using 50% of the battery. It was quite cold, with lows reaching 6 degrees Celsius in the mountains and highs barely above 18 degrees Celsius.
So far the numbers look promising for the Taycan and we have another 9,000 km to discover more about it and the other cars in EUROCHARGE.
Bogdan Grigorescu (AutoExpert)
EUROCHARGE has been knocking me through the walls, taking me straight from the most affordable of the group, the MG4, to the most expensive, the Porsche Taycan, with a difference of 100,000 euros. And, I must admit, I loved the experience of the brutal transition between the two extremes!
From the second you (literally) get behind the wheel, you realize that the Taycan has the grips of a 911, albeit in a different league. The near-horizontal driving position, the low, upright steering wheel, the cockpit with a center console that flows between the seats, all hint at the fastback’s racer DNA. Sure, it’s not the most comfortable way to travel, but it’s the most exciting.
The adaptive suspension with three settings, Normal, Sport and Sport Plus (who needs Comfort, anyway?), the least-assisted steering of the bunch and precise as a neurosurgeon, the rear axle’s responsiveness under the 435 horsepower, all awaken the senses to life. So does plugging in the DC socket, which charges with up to 320 kW, in our case the station showing 161 kW, when the Audi Q6 e-tron was also charging from it.
Today, through Austria, on express roads and on steep, winding roads (positive level difference over 2,500 meters!), at temperatures between 20 degrees Celsius at departure and 5 degrees Celsius at arrival, over a distance of 458 kilometers, the fuel consumption was 18.9 kWh/100 km, equivalent to a range of 460 kilometers (with air conditioning, headlights and music included, of course). Up hill!
Sure, it doesn’t have the most regular-shaped trunk, so if you didn’t have a jigsaw puzzle when you were a kid you’ll rack your brains when stowing bulky luggage. Sure, it doesn’t have the best rearward visibility, where the slanted rear window and 911 hips are in your field of vision. But in exchange for the little earthly inconveniences and €141,514, which is what the touring example costs, you get 2.5 tons of divine tuning packed into a body with historic touches, transposed into the future. You get a real Porsche!
Laura Antonov (LaChicBoutique)
Girls, if you’re wandering around Autocritica.ro, know that the Porsche Taycan is just like that guy you like at first sight and then it takes your mind as you discover it. Because it ticks everything off the list and it has absolutely no red flags. So far, the three days we’ve had the Porsche Taycan have been the wettest in Eurocharge.
And when I say rainy, you have to mean that dreary fall-winter weather that nobody can stand. The very weather that kept us from climbing the Grossglockner. Still, I quickly realized you can’t have a bad day driving a Taycan. Especially as on my list, the Porsche Taycan ticked pretty much everything there was to tick.
It looks good, runs well, loads fast (faster than I eat a whole pizza for lunch) and makes me smile. Yes, I could write about the figures here too, but you can see them in the table, we fill them in religiously every day.
But I realized that the Porsche Taycan isn’t all about the numbers. It’s not even about how much it costs, even if it is the most expensive car on the tour. It’s all about the feel! It handles beautifully on twisty mountain roads, but also on the highway or in the city, effectively floating despite its 2.5 tons…
What have I left with after almost three days driving the Porsche Taycan? I realized that you quickly get used to the things you like and it’s hard to part with them. But, because there’s a but, now that I’ve seen the Taycan, I can’t help but wonder about the Taycan Turbo GT.
Yeah, yeah I know, I sound disgruntled anyway.
Radu Tudoroiu (Digital storyteller)
I don’t even know where to begin my impressions of the Porsche Taycan. In the ‘to the bragging tree go supercharger’ category, the car has clearly been designed to please, no matter who you are or what your expectations are. It feels, more than in others driven so far, that everything is overdone, but in moderation.
The interior has 4 generous but not distracting screens. The seats are sporty but comfortable, as evidenced by the 850 kilometers I’ve put behind the wheel today. The horses are multicei but deliver friendly if you don’t necessarily want to drive it in airplane mode.
To put it simply, the Taycan feels new but familiar and I find it to be a car that adapts to you and not the other way around, as is generally the case when you get into something new. People will say, “At this money it’s supposed to be like this”, but personal experience with other cars in the same financial repertoire has been quite different.
Andrei Barbu (MotorVlog TV)
When you can do a whopping 1,106 kilometers with charging breaks of just 33 minutes*, life with an electric car is… different. When you have the Taycan.
Because the car flies down the highway with ease, only to charge almost brutally fast. How fast? Well, about 80 kWh in 21 minutes. Considering the charging power was limited by the station, not the car. So it could have been better. But that’s only a small part of the story.
Because the Taycan looks like a Porsche, drives like a Porsche, and when you’re cornering, it kind of makes you forget about gas. It’s instantly responsive, in every situation, agile and quick, as if the several hundred pounds of battery pack are bathed in weightlessness. And on top of that, when you’re going smooth, steady and linear, it’s comfortable and refined.
It’s hard to recommend an electric car other than the Taycan. The only problem would be the price. But since money is no object, we can always dream.
*plus a charge at dinner, but that doesn’t add up to the amount of minutes lost.
Dan Scarlat (Top Gear Romania)
One of Porsche’s most important qualities throughout its history has been consistency; otherwise, we wouldn’t be able to talk about the 911 as the world’s most recognizable sports car. Basically, that’s part of the recipe for German engineering success: continuous product improvement. After five years in production and nearly 150,000 sold, Porsche’s first electric car has received a facelift. Stylistically, it’s the same proportions, but there have been minor detail changes (a headlight, spoiler, slit, wheel rim), as you’d expect from such a facelift.
More surprising are the technical changes. The best news is that the range has increased significantly, partly thanks to better overall efficiency (modified inverters, improved thermal management, increased recovery capacity by more than 30% from 290 kW to 400 kW, optimized aerodynamics, etc.), partly thanks to a battery with increased capacity from 93.4 to 105 kWh. Even the maximum charging speed has gone up, from 270 to 320 kW, which means a charge from 10% to 80% in 18 minutes, if you find the right station. And we found it on EUROCHARGE’s longest day. Several times.
Today, this car proved that German engineering remains cutting-edge. On the longest day of EUROCHARGE, the Taycan showed that it can cover long distances on the highway as fast as a thermal car. We covered the distance Valladolid – Dijon (1240 km) in less than 12 hours, just on the highway at legal speeds. Of course, we also spent some time recharging, but it took a total of one hour and ten minutes. Basically, we barely had time to grab a bite to eat and visit the toilet.
Otherwise, even in the base 408bhp version, the Taycan is a true Porsche, accelerating quickly, in 4.8 seconds – 0.6 seconds quicker than in the past. But perhaps more importantly than that, the Taycan shows that performance can also be environmentally friendly.
Gabriel Nica (Cu și despre mașini)
The living proof that “Money can’t buy happiness” was a saying uttered by someone who didn’t drive the Taycan. I don’t know how it is, but every time I come into contact with the Stuttgart-based brand I get a little depressed, reflecting on the aforementioned proverb.
In a nutshell: the Taycan is without a doubt the most desirable model in this rather diverse gathering of electric cars. It charges so quickly that breaks become reason to raise your pulse, has better range at 100mph on the highway than many other cars here at 80mph, and absolutely impeccable roadholding.
And yes, everything comes at a cost. Big. But that’s as it should be. Want the best on the market? You have to be willing to pay for it, right?
Mihai Vasilescu (Digital storyteller)
In theory, EUROCHARGE is not a test drive comparing electric cars. In theory, because in reality, the human mind doesn’t work like that. Or at least my mind doesn’t work like that, and I can’t help but notice, especially now that it’s my turn to drive it last, that there’s Porsche and… the others.
It’s visible from everywhere you look, from anywhere, including the stratosphere, that the Porsche Taycan is the best-looking and best-performing car on this tour. And when I say “best”, I also mean that it has the longest range of any car we’ve tested.
I’m talking about real numbers, numbers that we’ve achieved here on the tour, where the car has been put through its paces on every possible terrain and on every possible road. From national roads to highways, from slopes to ramps, it’s been driven in all kinds of conditions, and the last three days have been exclusively on the highways, which is where the electrics have the hardest time.
Nothing, absolutely nothing prevented the Porsche Taycan from getting over 450 kilometers of range. I’ll give you the most representative examples, i.e. the range on the days when I did the most highway driving, namely from Valladolid to Dijon and from Dijon to Salzburg.
In the first, after 1,293 kilometers, it had a real range of 482.60 kilometers and in the second, after 873 kilometers, it had a real range of 453.30 kilometers.
Real autonomy, right? That’s exactly what it’s like on the ground, when I hope you can imagine that none of us have ever driven in the car in the car-load lane. When you’re behind the wheel of a Taycan, you can’t drive a Taycan in the drink-driving lane unless there’s a man in the back seat holding a gun to the back of your head.
When we weren’t just driving on highways, the Taycan had no problem getting up to 557 kilometers of real-world range.
What’s more, the car knows how to draw a lot of current and very quickly, from the high-power stations, it even draws almost 300 kW. That means you never spend more than 15-20 minutes charging it from 10% to 80%.
Add to that 435 horsepower and 420 Nm of torque. That means you’re always behind the wheel of an adrenaline generator. What more could be said? Absolutely nothing.
Technical specifications of the car that accompanied us in EUROCHARGE by Schaeffler
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