Video: 2025 Porsche Taycan Up Close: Faster and Farther

For those Porsche spotters, the biggest visual changes are to be found up front. So keep your eyes out for new, redesigned four-point matrix headlights that make the whole front end look a little wider. We've got revised portions of the lower front fascia and because we are specifically talking about a Turbo S trim here we have an exclusive turbinate darkened front badge. That's pretty cool. And depending on the trim, you have new designs available for the 20 and 21 inch wheels. See this vent here? Not for cooling, though it is kinda cool. This is just for aerodynamic effect. It improves airflow. It's not the only thing different about the rear bumper, but I'll tell you without an older Taycan parked next to it, it's kinda hard to see what is different. I do know that the lower portion of the rear bumper is different and you know, this one has 3D effect Porsche script embedded in the rear tail lights. Pretty cool. (screen whooshing) Now this specific Taycan Turbo S does not have any of the new upholstery options. This has the nice black leather, nothing new about that, but the other two are quite interesting. So you have available Race Tex microfiber upholstery like you see here on the steering wheel, nice to show that there, but my favorite has to be the wool blend houndstooth material available. Very retro, very cool. I wish it was on this, but it's not. Most of the other new changes are really kind of behind the scenes in the infotainment. But two interesting things that I want to talk about are climate related. Now you'll see here in the center console my phone is charging on the new, more powerful wireless charging pad. And I know that gets some of you kind of nervous because I know my phone even on basic, kind of weak, standard wireless charging gets overheated almost immediately. Well, not this one. Porsche has integrated a kind of air circulation cooling onto this charge pad. So that keeps the phone nice and frosty, but if it gets too frosty, don't you worry, the steering wheel is now heated as standard. Very nice. So not a whole lot new to talk about the exterior and really not a whole lot new on the interior as well, but we have a ton of facts and figures and new stuff underneath this newish skin to talk about. Starting with the battery, one of the most important parts of any electric car. So, you know, they're all higher capacity across the entire 2025 range, but since we are specifically talking about the Taycan Turbo S, this a 105 kilowatt-hour battery, that's the new performance battery. And you know, it's gonna charge a whole lot faster too because fast charging peaks at a blazing 320 kilowatts if you plug your Taycan into an 800-volt DC fast charge system, and the net result of all of this extra juice is more range. Now how much more? We don't know yet. EPA has not released its official figures so for now it's just more. Speaking of more, this has got a lot more power, as I bet a lot of you hoped. So the always there power, in the sense of you can access it at any time in any drive mode, is 764. That's a lot. If you hit the temporary overboost function, that rises 93 horsepower to 857 horsepower. But if you're pursuing the Turbo S's new 2.3 second zero-to-60 sprint, which I know a lot of you will if you get your hands on this thing, boy, that cranks power up to 930 horsepower and 808 pound-feet briefly, just for a moment. But I mean, come on, that's all you need, right? On the dynamics front, we have two new changes on the suspension. All Taycans, unless spec'd otherwise, come standard with an adaptive air suspension, but for the dual-motor models, those being the 4S and Turbo and Turbo S models, we have Porsche's trick Active Ride system, which, in addition to many other things, will actively lean into the corners. It's pretty cool. Now it might not look like it but there is still plenty to unpack about the 2025 Porsche Taycan and you can find all of that on cars.com/news.