2025 Porsche Taycan Gets Insane 938 HP in Top Spec

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2025 Porsche Taycan Gets Insane 938 HP in Top SpecPorsche

Discussions about sharp-end EVs normally revolve around performance and range.

The Porsche Taycan has always excelled at the first of these—being one of our inaugural Performance EVs of the Year—but has struggled with the second, especially in comparison with more efficient rivals. It is no surprise that Porsche has put serious effort into improving the range of the revised 2025 Taycan. Don’t worry, though—Porsche is still Porsche, and the new car will also be considerably quicker.

Given R&T’s priorities, we will start with the performance improvements. The standout headline is that the range-topping Taycan Turbo S is now set to have up to 938 hp and 808 lb-ft of torque. Those numbers aren’t quite a match for electro-muscle cars like the Tesla Model S Plaid (1020 hp and 1050 lb-ft) or the Lucid Air Sapphire (1234 hp and 1430 lb-ft), but the revised Turbo S does have 188 hp more than its predecessor. Porsche claims that this, along with smarter traction-control algorithms, has taken a full 0.3 second off the Taycan Turbo S’s 0–60-mph time, now reduced to an official 2.3 seconds. As the pre-facelift car delivered a 2.4-second time in independent testing, we presume the reality will be even better.

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Not that the Turbo S’s headline figure is an always-present one. The basic output is 764 hp, with a new push-to-pass button boosting that to 857 hp for up to 10 seconds. To experience the whole corral of electric horses, a Turbo S driver will need to activate the launch-control function. The result will be a 5050-lb four-seater with acceleration to beat most supercars.

At the other end of the range, the entry-level rear-wheel-drive Taycan keeps the same 402-hp peak output as the first car, but no longer requires launch control to activate that. Porsche claims an even better improvement in acceleration for the rear-driver, which is now capable of dispatching 60 mph in 4.5 seconds, 0.6 second quicker than before.

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Its exterior design is barely different. The revised Taycan gets flatter standard LED headlamps with correspondingly subtle revisions to fenders and the front bumper. At the rear, the Turbo S gains what initially appear to be vents on the sides of the bumper but, on close inspection, turn out to be fake contoured plastic. For shame, Porsche. (In the company’s defense, the engineers say the shapes do work to perform aerodynamic performance.) Range-topping models will now get an illuminated PORSCHE legend within the full-width rear light bar, and it will also be possible to pay extra for this on cheaper versions. But beyond new wheel designs and paint colors, that’s the limit of the styling tweaks.