Native NACS ports, infotainment upgrade for MY27 Porsche Taycan
The bigger battery is standard and there are now simulated "E-Shifts."
Has the allure of the Porsche Taycan waned? The four door electric sedan that thinks it is GT sold well for the first few years after its initial introduction in 2020, but sales began to slip even before the brand added the smaller, more affordable Macan SUV to its electric line up. The EV went through its midlife refresh a couple of years ago, but it seems the boffins in Stuttgart weren't done yet, they have some more tweaks for model year 2027, at least for the US market.
For one thing, The 105 kWh performance battery is standard across the Taycan range now—which starts at $111,900—and can charge at up to 320 kW with an 800 V DC fast charger.
And as long as you're not ordering the stripped-out Turbo GT with the Weissach Pack, there's a new plug for that—the CCS1 port that usually lives on the passenger side has been replaced by a NACS port. So no adapter is needed to charge at any of those thousands of Tesla superchargers, although only a small percentage of them operate at sufficient voltage to charge near the Taycan's limit. But IONNA has native NACS chargers capable of 400 kW, and Porsche will provide a CCS1 adapter to use with Electrify America and other 800 V chargers.
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