The revamped Porsche Taycan achieves EPA range figures of up to 318 miles, the automaker confirmed to Yacarros on Monday.
The 2025 Porsche Taycan is already being delivered to U.S. dealerships, and the official EPA ranges, calculated by Porsche and displayed on window stickers, show that the significant improvements in range and efficiency being touted for this engineering-focused update indeed translate to U.S. ratings.
With the larger battery pack, dubbed Performance Battery Plus, the ratings surpass the 318-mile range. The ratings drop to 295 miles EPA-rated with the Taycan 4S and 292 miles with the Taycan Turbo due to its higher-power drivetrain and more aggressive wheels and tires. Perhaps the most impressive aspect of these ratings is that the Taycan lineup doesn’t drop below 266 miles with the larger pack (for the Turbo S), and even the cutting-edge Turbo GT with Weissach package achieves 269 miles. The 2025 Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo models, with their entirely different roofline, have a range of 261 to 277 miles.
The additional range wasn’t simply a matter of increasing the battery pack size. Porsche did that, but it’s only part of the story. The Performance Battery Plus went from 93.4 kWh gross and 83.4 kWh usable in the 2024 Taycan to 105 kWh gross and 97 kWh usable in the 2025 model, approximately a 15% increase in battery capacity.
Last year’s Taycan offered up to 246 miles of range, so the 2025 model goes nearly 30% farther. As Porsche pointed out, it has made significant improvements in drivetrain efficiency, fine-tuned brake regeneration and overall recuperation, and optimized the entire package with improvements in aerodynamics and rolling resistance.
With the smaller “Performance” battery of the Taycan, it has a range of up to 440 kilometers, more than with last year’s larger pack. That standard pack in the Taycan now has 83.6 kWh usable (89 kWh gross). Yes, that’s a couple of points more than the usable capacity of the larger pack for 2024.
Across the range, the 2025 Taycan is also likely to offer higher range figures most of the time. Porsche redesigned the thermal management of the Taycan with a higher-powered 800-volt climate compressor, plus a heat pump that is used 100% of the time for interior heating.
When the Porsche Taycan was launched for the 2020 model year, it had some of the lowest electric vehicle efficiency ratings (excluding electric trucks, obviously). But it made a series of incremental advances along the way, including updated motor behavior for 2023 and thermal improvements for 2022.
As Green Car Reports found in a first drive of the 2025 Porsche Taycan in April, the update finally fulfills the mission of not only surpassing Tesla in technology and driving attributes but also being comparable in terms of how much range can be gained quickly on a road trip.
Porsche cites an impressive 10 to 80% charging time of just 18 minutes for the 2025 Taycan, which has a charging curve that has been raised and widened, with its peak of 320 kW now making better use of 350 kW CCS connectors. We now know that, in terms of EPA range, 70% of its range can equate to 223 miles, a remarkable figure that now makes the Taycan a more serious fast-charging rival to the Lucid Air and Tesla Model S, efficiency leaders, even if prioritizing minimizing energy use as much as maximizing performance.
