2024 Porsche Taycan: price, specs and release date

2024 Porsche Taycan performance

The biggest revisions to the new Taycan are the new batteries and motors, which in turn inform a hefty bump in performance and certified driving range. None exemplifies that better than the Taycan Turbo S, which boasts both a bump in power – up to a massive 952PS (700kW) when using launch control – and a bump in range up to 391 miles (WLTP). That’s up massively from the 290-mile WLTP range of the original Taycan Turbo S. Overall Porsche claims the Taycan range sports an aggregate increase in range of 35 per cent. Pretty impressive.

Power figures are a bit difficult to nail down. See, there’s resting power, power when in launch control (see that monster figure above) and indeed, new for the Taycan, power when ‘Push-to-Pass’ is engaged. That’s the replacement for the old car’s Overboost function, pumping the power up to 857PS for ten seconds when on the move. This will be standard on the Turbo S and optional on the Turbo and 4S.

Acceleration figures are only available for the top-end Turbo S and entry-level Taycan for the moment, with 62mph arriving from a standstill in 2.4 and 4.8 seconds respectively. Those are bumps of 0.6 and 0.4 seconds.

2024 Porsche Taycan range

The whole range is to carry over with updated batteries and motors, though as above, Porsche has started with the top and the bottom of the range. GTS, 4S, Cross Turismo and so on, will follow in due course. Indeed the rear motor is all new and features in everything from the standard RWD Taycan, to the new Turbo S. Battery sizes are 89kWh as standard below the Turbo and Turbo S, which get a 105kWh battery as standard. That battery is an optional upgrade for lesser versions. The range monster of course will be the RWD standard Taycan, combined with the 105kWh battery, which is WLTP-rated for 421 miles of range. Incidentally, Porsche has lopped some weight out of the batteries, with overall weight in the Taycan down by 15kg. A drop in a 2.2-tonne ocean but it’s a drop nonetheless.

In terms of charging Porsche reckons the new Taycan can recharge at up to 320kW, a boost of 50kW in charge speed compared to the outgoing car. It can fast charge for longer too with 300kW charging sustainable for up to five minutes. Even with the bigger battery, a Taycan Turbo S should in reasonable conditions be able to juice from 10-80 per cent charge in just 18 minutes, down from 37 minutes on the old car. Of course, that 80 per cent charge will take you further too. A final note? It’ll charge faster under braking, too, at up to 400kW, up from 290kW on the old car.

All the jumps in the range are also informed by the Taycan’s revised looks, the design of which Porsche says was dictated by aero efficiency. The new aero wheel design alone is said to add some 40km of range.

2024 Porsche Taycan specs

The bumpers and bonnet have been gently sculpted while the biggest tell-tail that the example you’re looking at is the new one, will be the lights. They’re a bit more conventional in shape, better filling the area that they’re mounted than the outgoing car. No more weird panel overlaps and furrows around the lighting. The lights are also now full LED as standard. At the rear, on the Turbo and Turbo S at least, the ‘Porsche’ script will now light up red. Very showy…

All in all, the new Taycan is better at everything EVs need to be better at, which is sort of what you’d expect.

Standard equipment is now boosted too with air suspension across the board along with adaptive dampers. The basic Taycan previously came on springs with the option of air. Now all Taycans will be able to adjust their ride height which is good for both access to the car and aerodynamics. There’s also a new anti-roll system to replace PDCC called active ride, a new system using an 800-volt pump to direct fluid to the car’s four corners. It’ll even be able to ‘curve tilt’ which is Porsche speak for tipping the car into a corner Mercedes-style. It didn’t feel too great in the big Mercs so we’re curious to try Porsche’s take on this.

The new Taycan gets the kind of evolutionary design Stuttgart is famous for on the inside, with a few quality-of-life updates. Porsche has worked closely with Apple to tighten up the CarPlay experience and allow it to work with the Taycan’s other screens. There’s also more ambient lighting.

2024 Porsche Taycan: price and release date

Prices are up on the 2024 Taycan compared with the outgoing car, which was priced between £79,000 to £149,000. The 2024 Taycan jumps in entry-level price to £86,500 while the most expensive version, the Cross Turismo Turbo S, will cost you a whopping £162,500.

Add a splash of PTS paint to that and you’re looking at supercar territory on price. With that said, we can expect the Porsche Taycan Turbo GT, whenever it’s revealed, to be priced in the £180,000 range, though that’s yet to be confirmed.