Recharged 2024 Porsche Taycan electric car pricing confirmed as significant tech update makes it faster to charge... and drive

Porsche has unveiled the most significant update to the tech underneath its first fully electric model, the Taycan, boasting more impressive charging times, faster acceleration and a few design tweaks.

While the facelift boosts the 2024 Porsche Taycan in numerous ways, Porsche Australia has also confirmed pricing has been boosted to accommodate the updated tech in the luxe electric car when it arrives in mid-2024.

Now starting from $175,100 before on-roads for the 'base' rear-drive Taycan, getting into the model is now a case of paying $10,700 more than it was previously, with some other variants pricing increasing by even more.

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The extra cost is justified by some attractive numbers, one being key to the electric car's functionality: max charging rates are now up by 50kW to a peak of 320kW, with the Taycan also able to recuperate power at a rate of 400kW during regenerative braking at high speeds.

The Taycan's best charge rates can be reached at 800-volt DC charging stations, improving upon the time to charge from 10 to 80 per cent significantly. In the earlier versions of Taycan, this would take as much as 37 minutes at 15 degrees Celsius, but takes just 18 minutes in the updated car.

Updated Taycans also score adaptive air suspension as standard, with Porsche Active Ride suspension available as an option for all-wheel-drive models.

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Acceleration is also improved across the range, with Porsche providing two examples of 0-100km/h sprint times.

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Acceleration is also improved across the range, with Porsche providing two examples of 0-100km/h sprint times: the base Taycan is 0.6 seconds faster to 100km/h than the current version, now hitting three digits in 4.8 seconds, while the Taycan Turbo S is able to do it in 2.4 seconds, 0.4sec faster than before.

Helping provide this extra grunt is a new rear-axle motor with "up to 80kW more power than its predecessor on all models", as well as "a modified pulse inverter with optimised software, more powerful batteries, revised thermal management, a next-generation heat pump and a modified recuperation and all-wheel-drive strategy".

Porsche Australia has also confirmed pricing has been boosted to accommodate the updated tech in the luxe electric car when it arrives in mid-2024.

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The facelift boosts the 2024 Porsche Taycan in numerous ways.

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Additionally, the Sport Chrono package now comes with a race-style 'push-to-pass' function which, depending on the variant, is able to activate for 10 seconds of increased acceleration. In the base variant, this delivers 60 kW more than before. In the Turbo S, it's an additional 140kW - making 700kW total.

Updated Taycans also score adaptive air suspension as standard, with Porsche Active Ride suspension available as an option for all-wheel-drive models.

It features interior adjustments like a new lever behind the steering wheel for driver assistance are also small changes made to the updated Taycan.

New headlights and tail-lights, new front wings, light-up Porsche text in the rear light strip, and interior adjustments like a new lever behind the steering wheel for driver assistance are also small changes made to the updated Taycan.

Full pricing can be found below, applying to updated Taycan models due to arrive in Australia around the middle of 2024.

2024 Porsche Taycan price before on-road costs