NEW 2025 Porsche Taycan Review: 510-Mile Range?! | 4K

harder, better, faster, stronger, not just the words of a famous Dar Punk song, but also the philosophy of the Porsche design team when it came to building this, the next version of the Tian, his words were actually louder, faster, but close enough after the sale. 150,000 units are back with a seemingly superior in every way, offering more power, more standard equipment, better efficiency and larger batteries. In fact, in the case of this new rear-wheel drive Tian, ​​they say it will offer a monstrous

range

of 510 Mi, that sounds like it. like a typo wait a second yeah no they are claiming 510

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s in city driving anyway on a combination of roads apparently this thing will do 421

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s which is a little crazy because the previous version did what 260 H sounds almost too good to be true, doesn't it?

We'll investigate those autonomy claims in a moment, but a quick PSA. If you want a new electric car, Auto Trader can help you lease one. Visit our website through the link below. I have some amazing deals in stock right now, ready to go in terms of looks. I don't know if you remember, but the previous car had what looked like tears running down his face. Now they are gone and what we have is a slightly visible car. Less interesting if you ask me, it reminds me a bit of a Tesla Model 3 and that's not necessarily a complement.

The lights are now completely flat instead of having a slight indentation, but they're still interesting in that the previous generation's headlights had 84 individual pixels. this one has 32,000, that's not a guy which is not always necessarily a good thing because, as you may have heard on the news, there are criminal people, we should say, who have taken to stealing headlights to grow their illicit crops, if you know. What I'm talking about apparently they are super bright but also very very efficient, they don't let out much heat and that's great for urban farmers, however it's also great for drivers, apparently they can project a beam up to 600M in the distance illuminating everything in front of you or you can reduce everything to only illuminate your specific lane so as not to blind people on the side of the road.

Very, very smart on the side, you get a nice little premium touch on what was available. the top-end versions, the 4S and the Turbo, but now it's also in the rear-drive motorized charging ports on both sides of the car, which makes it look a little more stylish. I believe the car now comes with air suspension as standard instead of the steel suspension you get on the entry level car and you can also spec it with these aerodynamically optimized wheels which apparently add 40km of

range

regardless of whether you opt for the 19s , 20 or 21, if you're wondering, it's the 20s.

On the back not much has changed, it really looks like a standard Tian unless you look very closely at some versions where you'll see this illuminated Porsche logo and also a bar light that can be animated, unfortunately it is not installed on this particular vehicle. so I'm going to have to move on to some additional material now to show you how it looks quite stylish, if the interior really hasn't changed much, you get a new animal free interior option, as included here, a new mode switch management. on the steering wheel as standard, as well as a new cruise control lever on the left, the driver's display has been updated and now shows how quickly the car will charge at any given battery level and you can now watch videos on the screen central, as well as on the passenger screen, apart from that, everything remains the same, okay, I think the right thing to do is that we go for a drive and I know what you're thinking: it's a very powerful electric sports car, so the right thing to do It's with your launch control, eh, no, I'm not doing it I'm not childish I'm not that kind of person okay, oh yeah, look, I can't take all this peer pressure, it's okay, I'm sick, I need help, all Versions of the Tyan are now powerful and faster than ever.

It uses an updated electric motor that helps deliver more power in the case of rear-wheel drive: 435 HP, an increase of 27 and the torque has been increased by 75 new meters to 435 and it feels better. Harder, faster, stronger than the previous version of the rear wheel Tian. Driving hit 62 in 5.4 seconds, this 4.8 proper sports car territory and comes with a new noise, listen to that sporty Porsche sound and the clever thing is that all versions of the Tyan, so the rear-wheel drive 4S turbo and Turbo S have their own unique noise. I'm not sure if it's strictly necessary, but it sounds pretty good according to Porsche, they spent almost half of this car's development budget on improving performance and efficiency, which sounds pretty noble and if you have a positive outlook on life.

So you might think that's a pretty good thing, but it's worth remembering that there are cheaper RALS that offer substantially faster cars. I'm talking about models like the mg 4X power and the Kia ev6 GT, those cars would leave the previous version. Of the Tyan's rear-wheel drive for dead, in fact, they'd probably still leave this version for dead, but the increase in power and torque makes it feel a little less like they're being shortchanged. The interesting thing is that the best-selling version of the Tyan above. So far it's been the 4S mainly because it has extra power, but with that extra torque and power that you now get from the rear-wheel drive version and it being the cheapest, this could be the ideal choice for one of the things I like most .

What really pleases me about this car are the brakes which feel nice and strong, that's not always the case with electric car brakes mainly because they have a combination of physical braking and energy recovery from the motor, but this is It feels good and is quite consistent. a lot all the time and they also changed the recovery strategy so on the previous car the maximum regeneration you could get was 290 watts, this increases to 400 WS when you recover at high speeds and what that means is that you are now Regenerated much more energy to the battery every time you brake.

As for the steering, it feels like a real Porsche. Pleasant and direct feeling through the steering wheel. Plus, you can know exactly what's going on with the grip at the front. It has plenty of power pushing you out of the corners, it has all the feel and fun of a rear wheel drive sports car even though it uses an electric powertrain, in fact although it is not as quick as the 4S or turbo versions it is probably It's more fun, acceleration is quick rather than terrifying and corners can be enjoyed rather than just hanging on and hoping for the best, unlike some cheaper EVS.

I bet your mg4 can't do that suspension is a big issue in the new Tian. The previous car came with steel suspension as standard with the option of adaptive air, but now adaptive air comes as standard, meaning the car feels much more comfortable than when it came out of the box. It has this fancy new two-valve setup that many manufacturers are using today, giving you better control of compression and rebound; In other words, when you enter a pothole or bump, as well as when you come out of one, you also have the option of Porsche Active Ride which is not installed on this car which automatically raises the car upwards to allow easy ENT and makes a It works much better over speed bumps and keeps the car flat all the time without pitching when accelerating without diving when braking and without leaning when cornering.

As before, there are two battery options, large and small, and both are larger than before. The standard battery was 79 KW hour and now has 89. The higher performance Plus battery now measures 105 KW hour and increases from 93 and, interestingly, that increase in size does not. This is achieved at the expense of weight, in fact the battery is 9 kg lighter. I mentioned earlier that the rear-wheel drive Tian can reach up to 510 Mi of range in the city. I must make it clear that this is not up to Porsche. According to the WLTP, the same body that is responsible for calculating the range of everyone's electric cars, as well as the economy of gasoline cars and CO2 emissions, they say that this car will get a much more realistic range of 421 Mi in a combination of roads, but then again, that seems pretty ambitious.

I have calculated that to get the 510 Mi you would need an average of 5.5 m per kW hour or to get the 421 around 5 m per Kow hour, which, let's face it, in my hands is not very realistic, the efficiency was still Good, the car reports around 300M on a single charge, but on Spanish highways at 70-80mph it reported around 3.2m per KW, which equates to a highway range of 336Mi slower and 400 My autonomy on the highway in summer temperatures. It looks completely realistic and then there's the charging which is supposed to be very fast now 320 KW so I had to test it so 320 KW is very very fast.

I think Tesla can go as fast as 250 KW. Lucid claims 300 KW, so this could be a world record if Porsche's claims are correct. I've come to an ion charger at this very glamorous service station where we're going to put it to the test. Now one of the things to keep in mind is that it is Plug and Play so I can plug it in and the car will accept the charge without me having to fiddle with credit cards or RFID cards for example and one thing to keep in mind as well is that the car will begin to accept power much faster. than before, the previous car took about a minute, a minute and a half before it started charging.

This should start loading in about 30 seconds. We will keep an eye on the loading speed and see what happens. It should start reasonably slow and then increase. over time we'll see, okay, it says connection, okay, initial, uh, it could change from Spanish to English. Plug and Play mobility contract, why does this always happen with electric cars? You go there expecting it to be perfect and then this happens, check with your Mobility service I have to check the car maybe I have to check the car no, the car is fine they told me it was Plug and Play, they literally said plug it in B it will start to load in 30 seconds, it's not happening, are you patient?

I'll be back in a minute. I'll make a call. Apparently I had to check the car. The plug and charge function was inadvertently turned off, not by me, so it needed to be fixed, but when I got it done, I solved the ion charging station. I stopped playing, what's happening? In the end I had to switch to another charger, but once I did, things became much simpler and the Tian was sucking electrons at a rate I had never seen before, things started slower than expected, but as As the voltage increased, the numbers started to rise rapidly, so we just saw that after a lot of patience, the car reached a maximum charging speed of 318 KW. 2 Kow shy of what Porsa says but still incredibly fast as far as I'm concerned, that's a world record I've never seen an electric car charge so fast and what's really impressive is that the battery is now over half and it is still charging at over 300 KW, one of the main ways they have enabled this fast charging capability at such high rates over such a long period of time is due to a change in cell chemistry.

They have changed the ratio of nickel, manganese and cobalt from 622 to 811. One of the big benefits of doing this is that the car can now charge quickly over a wider range. temperature spectrum, so the previous car could only be charged quickly when it reached around 15°C. With this, the fast charging window now goes from 15°C to 40°C, so we can maintain these really impressive charging speeds for much longer. Ultimately, while the previous car could go from 10-80% in about 37 minutes, this new Syan can go from 10-80% in just 18 minutes and that's brilliant, so how much will all this cost you? you back £865,000 isn't cheap, but Porsche says it's better value for money and has more standard equipment, including larger batteries, adaptive air suspension, parking assist with reversing camera, folding side mirrors, electric cargo flaps on both sides, heated seats, ambient lighting, intelligent range manager, drive mode switch and more, what's my verdict on the new rear-wheel drive Porsche Tyan?

Well I've always loved this particular version of the Tyan, the only problem was the lack of grunt, it was a bit underpowered and wasn't necessarily quick enough for an electric Porsche in my eyes, but the company has taken notice that They've made it faster, better, harder, stronger and now it's as fun asIt was always supposed to be. It can't necessarily keep up with all these up-and-coming youngsters in a straight line, but it's delightful to drive, great fun in the corners, super engaging and just makes you smile. Would I buy one? Well, I'm a little put off by looks that I think are now unnecessarily generic if you ask me, but if you can.

Let's put that aside, the new Tian specifically, this base rear wheel drive version is a fantastic car, check it out.