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Porsche Taycan charging

The Porsche Taycan is an electric wagon. You fill it from a J1772 plug at home and from a CCS1 plug on a long drive, and its longest 2026 version is rated at 315 miles on a full battery. Every number below says which version of the car it belongs to, and the two sliders below turn a charge into a time and a price.

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Official range (EPA)

315 mi

2026 4 Perf Battery Plus 19in All-Season (M+S)

How far a full battery is rated to go on the US test.

Battery size

82.3 kWh

Porsche Taycan

The size of the tank. Bigger means more miles between stops.

Fastest charge

270 kW

10–80% in 19 min

How wide the hose is at a fast charger.

Plugs it uses

CCS1

J1772 at home and slow posts

The shape that has to fit the socket.

Price from

$105,800

2026 Performance Battery

Before tax, delivery and incentives. 11 versions priced, up to $243,700.

The range and battery cards name different versions on purpose. One is the longest 2026 row the EPA tested, the other is the catalogue's charging record — because the EPA lists a range per trim and the catalogue lists one battery per trim. The price is a third source again: the cheapest version on the price sheet, which is not always the version the other two cards describe. Nothing below quietly mixes them.

Porsche Taycan (2026 model year)

Wagon · 2020–2026 · AWD

5 seats. 407 L of boot space plus a 84 L front trunk. The photo is the model the catalogue lists, not a photo of a particular car for sale.

Start here

Six terms, in plain words

None of this needs a physics degree. Each term on a window sticker is one idea, and here they are in the order they turn up.

EPA range

A score from one official test.

The car runs on a rolling road until the battery is empty. Every car sits the same test, so the numbers compare fairly. It is a lab score, not a promise: a cold morning or a steady 75 mph uses more energy than the test did.

US trim

A version of the same car.

The body is the same; the wheels, motors or battery are not. A model is usually sold in several versions — Pure, Touring and Grand Touring on this car — and the EPA publishes a range for each one it tested, which is why one model carries several numbers for one year.

kWh

The size of the tank.

A kilowatt-hour is a unit of energy. A bigger battery holds more of it and goes further. This page shows the usable figure where the data says so, because a pack never gives up every last bit.

kW

How wide the hose is.

A kilowatt is a rate: energy per second. The same battery fills from a 1.4 kW wall socket or a 200 kW-plus fast charger. Wide hose, quicker fill — as long as the car and the station both agree.

AC and DC

Two kinds of electricity.

Home wiring supplies AC, and the car's own charger turns it into DC. A fast charger does that conversion in the station and feeds the battery directly, which is why it is many times quicker.

10–80%

The happy middle of a battery.

Packs accept full power in the middle and slow right down past 80% to protect the cells. That is why a road-trip stop is usually 10% to 80%: the last fifth can take as long as the first half.

Range

How far can it go on one charge?

The Porsche Taycan is rated between 251 and 315 miles on a full battery, depending on the version; the highest belongs to the 2026 4 Perf Battery Plus 19in All-Season (M+S).

The official figure comes from the EPA, the US agency that scores every car the same way: a full battery, a rolling road, and a number of miles at the end. It is the fair way to compare two cars, and still only a lab score — wind, hills, heaters and speed all take a bite out of it.

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Model year

In 2026, the Porsche Taycan was rated between 251 mi and 315 mi on a full battery, depending on the version.

  1. 4 Perf Battery Plus 19in All-Season (M+S)

    315 mi

     

  2. 4S Perf Battery Plus 19in All-Season (M+S)

    315 mi

     

  3. 4S Perf Battery Plus

    295 mi

    −20 mi

  4. 4 Perf Battery Plus

    294 mi

    −21 mi

  5. GTS

    293 mi

    −22 mi

  6. Turbo

    292 mi

    −23 mi

  7. GTS Sport Turismo

    279 mi

    −36 mi

  8. 4 Cross Turismo

    277 mi

    −38 mi

  9. Turbo GT

    276 mi

    −39 mi

  10. Performance Battery

    274 mi

    −41 mi

  11. 4S Cross Turismo

    272 mi

    −43 mi

  12. Turbo GT with Weissach Package

    269 mi

    −46 mi

  13. Turbo S

    266 mi

    −49 mi

  14. Turbo Cross Turismo

    265 mi

    −50 mi

  15. Turbo S Cross Turismo

    261 mi

    −54 mi

  16. 4S Performance Battery

    252 mi

    −63 mi

  17. 4 Performance Battery

    251 mi

    −64 mi

Trim names are the EPA's own labels, unedited, so “G Touring” is short for Grand Touring. Each row is a version the EPA tested; a version it did not test has no row. Figures are miles on the EPA's lab test, not a prediction of your commute.

Charging time

How long does a charge take?

A 10–80% fast stop takes about 19 minutes at a charger that can deliver the car's peak, and a full charge on a 7.2 kW home charger takes about 13 hours.

Three things decide it, and the slowest one wins: what the station can supply, what the car will accept, and how much the battery wants at that moment. Move the sliders and the answer changes with you.

Step 1 — where are you plugging in?

The usual highway stop.

Step 2 — how full is the battery, and how full do you want it?
0%80% — most cars slow down here100%

60% of the battery, from 20% to 80%.

Step 3 — what do you pay per kWh?

Your charge

Time at this charger
20 min
Cost
$17.28
Energy
49.4 kWh

About a coffee break. The session draws about 150 kW on average — a peak figure would be a promise the last part of the charge does not keep.

Times use the 82.3 kWh battery and 270 kW DC peak from the Porsche Taycan record, and scale from its 19-minute 10–80% figure. Above 80% the estimate assumes a much slower rate; cold batteries and shared stations can be slower still.

The station

1.4–350 kW

A wall socket gives about 1.4 kW; a highway post 150–350 kW. The site's rating is a ceiling, not a promise.

The car

11 kW AC

The car takes no more than its own limit — 270 kW on DC, 11 kW on AC. A bigger charger cannot change that.

The battery

slower past 80%

Above 80% the pack asks for far less power to protect the cells, which is why trips stop at 80%.

The reasoning behind those numbers is on how long EV charging takes and Level 2 vs DC fast.

Plugs

Which plug fits this car?

Only two shapes matter: the one on the car and the one on the charger. The AC plug covers home charging and slow public posts; the DC plug covers fast stops on a trip.

A SAE J1772 (Type 1) electric vehicle charging connector.

J1772

AC charging

SAE J1772 · Typically 3.3–19.2 kW

J1772 is the AC connector on almost every non-Tesla EV and plug-in hybrid sold in North America. At public stations it is usually a Level 2 charger.

Where you meet it: destination charging while parked.

More about J1772Stations with this plug

Photo: Michael Hicks (mulad) · CC BY 2.0

A CCS1 (Combined Charging System) DC fast connector plugged into an electric vehicle.

CCS1

DC charging

SAE J1772 CCS Combo 1 · Typically 50–350 kW

CCS1 is the DC fast connector on most non-Tesla EVs in North America. It keeps the J1772 shape for the AC pins and adds two DC pins underneath.

Where you meet it: fast charging on a longer trip.

More about CCS1Stations with this plug

Photo: Ken Fields · CC BY-SA 2.0

An adapter changes the shape of the plug, not what the car can accept or what the station can supply. It can bridge a standard; it cannot create power, access or a faster session.

This page lists the connectors the model reports. The directory records the connector a station reports, so a station that carries both a J1772 post and a CCS1 fast charger appears under each — and a car is not guaranteed a free one.

Cost

What does a charge cost?

Charging is priced by the kilowatt-hour, like electricity at home. The directory's median tariff is $0.35 per kWh — the middle of the prices networks actually list, not a quote for any one station.

At that median, filling the 82.3 kWh battery from empty at a DC post bills about $30.32. A 10–80% stop, the usual road-trip habit, moves about 70% of it and bills about $21.22. Type your own price into the calculator above to see your number instead.

Both figures are metered energy, not battery energy: a DC post puts roughly 95% of what it draws into the pack, so the bill sits slightly above battery × price. At home the conversion is closer to 90%. What is not in either figure: session fees, idle fees, parking and taxes. The state cost table has the local medians, and cost per mile turns this into a comparison with petrol.

Sources

US figures from the October 2026 data build. How these sources are chosen, and what a figure here never claims, is on the methodology page.

Full charge

$30.32

At $0.35 per kWh at a DC post, charging losses included.

10–80% stop

$21.22

About 70% of the battery, which is what most trips use.

Cheapest state median

$0.28

Iowa, per kWh — the lowest state median with a comparable sample.

Priced stations

3,805

Stations in the directory that publish a per-kWh tariff.

CalculatorPrice a charge for your state and your tariff

Prices

What it costs, version by version

The 2026 Porsche Taycan starts at $105,800 for the Performance Battery and reaches $243,700 for the Turbo GT — $137,900 between the two ends of the same car. 11 versions are listed for that model year.

These are manufacturer list prices, as the price sheet records them. They are not a quote: sales tax, destination and delivery charges, options and any incentive are outside them, and a dealer's number will differ.

Price sheet · October 2026

Starts at

$105,800

Performance Battery, 2026.

Top version

$243,700

Turbo GT — the dearest version listed.

Versions priced

11

Model year 2026. Earlier or later years are not in the sheet.

Per mile of range

$386

$180 above the median across every priced model here. List price divided by the sheet's own rated range on the cheapest version.

List prices by version for the Porsche Taycan
VersionYearDriveBatteryDC peak0–100 km/hList price
Performance BatteryCheapest2026RWD82.3 kWh270 kW4.8 s$105,800
4 Cross Turismo2026AWD97 kWh320 kW4.8 s$118,100
4S2026AWD97 kWh320 kW3.8 s$125,900
4S Cross Turismo2026AWD97 kWh320 kW3.9 s$133,000
GTSLongest range2026AWD97 kWh320 kW3.4 s$157,000
GTS Sport Turismo2026AWD97 kWh320 kW3.4 s$158,900
Turbo2026AWD97 kWh320 kW2.8 s$184,600
Turbo Cross Turismo2026AWD97 kWh320 kW2.9 s$187,400
Turbo S2026AWD97 kWh320 kW2.6 s$221,400
Turbo S Cross Turismo2026AWD97 kWh320 kW2.7 s$224,300
Turbo GT2026AWD97 kWh320 kW2.5 s$243,700

The Performance Battery, in numbers

Price sheet
Seats
5
Cargo volume
407 L (14.4 cu ft)
Front trunk
84 L (3 cu ft)
Curb weight
2,100 kg (4,629.702 lb)
Top speed
230 km/h (142.915 mph)
Power
300 kW (402.306 hp)
Torque
410 Nm (302.4 lb-ft)
Onboard AC charger
9.6 kW
Battery chemistry
NMC
Vehicle-to-load
No
Plug and charge
Yes

The table names versions, not trims the EPA tested. A price row and an EPA row can therefore differ in wording even when they describe the same car — the sheet writes “Performance Battery” where the label may write something else. The EPA rows are listed below, unedited.

Rated range is in this sheet too, but it is not printed here: it disagrees with the EPA label on a handful of rows, and two range figures for one car on one page is a page that argues with itself. The price-per-mile figure above stays inside the sheet's own numbers. The longest-legged version in the sheet is the GTS at 293 miles of rated range (472 km).

Battery, DC peak and the 0–100 time are the sheet's own per-version figures, which is why they can differ from the single catalogue record in the specifications section: a model sold in several battery sizes has one number per size, not one number for the car. 1 mile = 1.609 km.

These are list prices, not quotes. For the whole field side by side, see every model ranked by price.

US trims

Every version, year by year

This is the list the chart above is drawn from. The names are the EPA's own labels, kept exactly as published — spelling, abbreviations and all — because rewriting a source label is how a table stops matching its source.

84 rows from fueleconomy.gov
Show every EPA row (84)Year · trim · range
US trims and EPA range for the Porsche Taycan
YearTrimEPA range
2026Taycan 4 Cross Turismo277 mi
2026Taycan 4 Perf Battery Plus294 mi
2026Taycan 4 Perf Battery Plus 19in All-Season (M+S)315 mi
2026Taycan 4 Performance Battery251 mi
2026Taycan 4S Cross Turismo272 mi
2026Taycan 4S Perf Battery Plus295 mi
2026Taycan 4S Perf Battery Plus 19in All-Season (M+S)315 mi
2026Taycan 4S Performance Battery252 mi
2026Taycan GTS293 mi
2026Taycan GTS Sport Turismo279 mi
2026Taycan Performance Battery274 mi
2026Taycan Turbo292 mi
2026Taycan Turbo Cross Turismo265 mi
2026Taycan Turbo GT276 mi
2026Taycan Turbo GT with Weissach Package269 mi
2026Taycan Turbo S266 mi
2026Taycan Turbo S Cross Turismo261 mi
2025Taycan 4 Cross Turismo277 mi
2025Taycan 4 Perf Battery Plus294 mi
2025Taycan 4S Cross Turismo272 mi
2025Taycan 4S Perf Battery Plus295 mi
2025Taycan 4S Perf Battery Plus 19 inch Wheels315 mi
2025Taycan 4S Performance Battery252 mi
2025Taycan GTS293 mi
2025Taycan GTS Sport Turismo279 mi
2025Taycan Perf Battery Plus318 mi
2025Taycan Performance Battery274 mi
2025Taycan Turbo292 mi
2025Taycan Turbo 21in Aero-Design wheel (285/35)317 mi
2025Taycan Turbo Cross Turismo265 mi
2025Taycan Turbo GT276 mi
2025Taycan Turbo GT with Weissach Package269 mi
2025Taycan Turbo S266 mi
2025Taycan Turbo S 21in Aero-Design wheel (285/35)298 mi
2025Taycan Turbo S Cross Turismo261 mi
2024Taycan 4 Cross Turismo235 mi
2024Taycan 4S Cross Turismo230 mi
2024Taycan 4S Performance Battery206 mi
2024Taycan 4S Performance Battery Plus235 mi
2024Taycan GTS246 mi
2024Taycan GTS Sport Turismo233 mi
2024Taycan Performance Battery208 mi
2024Taycan Performance Battery Plus242 mi
2024Taycan Turbo238 mi
2024Taycan Turbo Cross Turismo233 mi
2024Taycan Turbo S222 mi
2024Taycan Turbo S Cross Turismo222 mi
2023Taycan 4 Cross Turismo235 mi
2023Taycan 4S Cross Turismo230 mi
2023Taycan 4S Perf Battery Plus235 mi
2023Taycan 4S Performance Battery206 mi
2023Taycan GTS246 mi
2023Taycan GTS Sport Turismo233 mi
2023Taycan Perf Battery Plus242 mi
2023Taycan Performance Battery208 mi
2023Taycan Turbo238 mi
2023Taycan Turbo Cross Turismo233 mi
2023Taycan Turbo S222 mi
2023Taycan Turbo S Cross Turismo222 mi
2022Taycan 4 Cross Turismo215 mi
2022Taycan 4S Cross Turismo215 mi
2022Taycan 4S Perf Battery199 mi
2022Taycan 4S Perf Battery Plus227 mi
2022Taycan GTS246 mi
2022Taycan GTS ST233 mi
2022Taycan Perf Battery200 mi
2022Taycan Perf Battery Plus225 mi
2022Taycan Turbo212 mi
2022Taycan Turbo Cross Turismo204 mi
2022Taycan Turbo S201 mi
2022Taycan Turbo S Cross Turismo202 mi
2021Taycan 4 Cross Turismo215 mi
2021Taycan 4S Cross Turismo215 mi
2021Taycan 4S Perf Battery199 mi
2021Taycan 4S Perf Battery Plus227 mi
2021Taycan Perf Battery200 mi
2021Taycan Perf Battery Plus225 mi
2021Taycan Turbo212 mi
2021Taycan Turbo Cross Turismo204 mi
2021Taycan Turbo S201 mi
2021Taycan Turbo S Cross Turismo202 mi
2020Taycan 4S Perf Battery Plus203 mi
2020Taycan Turbo201 mi
2020Taycan Turbo S192 mi

EPA figures are the US label; they are not converted from WLTP. A trim the EPA does not list has no row, and an all-wheel-drive version of a rear-drive model appears as its own row because the EPA tested it separately.

Catalogue detail

Specifications

From the European catalogue trim Porsche Taycan (2024). US trims, EPA range and connectors are above; equipment and dimensions can differ by market.

Performance

Performance from the European catalogue trim
Power300 kW (402 hp)
Torque410 Nm (302 lb-ft)
0–100 km/h4.8 s
Top speed230 km/h (143 mph)
DrivetrainRWD
PlatformVAG J1

Battery, range and V2X

Battery, range and V2X from the European catalogue trim
Usable battery82.3 kWh
Nominal battery89 kWh
ChemistryLithium-ion
Cell formPouch
Nominal voltage620 V
Cell count336 cells
Pack configuration168s2p
Warranty8 years / 160,000 km
WLTP range (EU)495 km (308 mi)
Efficiency (WLTP)16.6 kWh/100 km
Cold highway (catalogue estimate)322 km (200 mi)
Mild urban (catalogue estimate)569 km (354 mi)
V2HNot supported
V2GNot supported

WLTP and catalogue estimates describe the European trim; EPA range is above. V2X rows are the maker's catalogue equipment.

Dimensions and practicality

Dimensions and practicality from the European catalogue trim
Length4,963 mm (195.4 in)
Width (with mirrors)2,144 mm (84.4 in)
Height1,379 mm (54.3 in)
Wheelbase2,900 mm (114.2 in)
Curb weight2,165 kg (4,773 lb)
GVWR2,795 kg (6,162 lb)
Payload705 kg (1,554 lb)
Turning circle11.7 m (38.4 ft)
Boot407 L (14.4 cu ft)
Frunk84 L (3 cu ft)
Towing (unbraked)0 kg (0 lb)
Seats5
SegmentF - Luxury
ISOFIXYes, 2 seats
Roof railsNo
Heat pumpStandard Equipment

Questions

Answers, briefly

Short answers first, the reasoning below each. Every figure here comes from the same data as the rest of the page.

Still unsure about a term? The charging glossary covers the rest of them.

What connector does the Porsche Taycan use?

It lists J1772 for AC charging and CCS1 for DC fast charging. J1772 is what a home charger and a slow public post use; CCS1 is the fast plug for a longer trip. An adapter may bridge another standard, but support varies by vehicle and station.

How long does it take to charge a Porsche Taycan?

The catalogue's 82.3 kWh usable battery and 270 kW DC peak give a 10–80% session of about 19 minutes at a station that can deliver the power. AC charging peaks at 11 kW, which suits overnight charging rather than a trip stop.

What is the EPA range of the Porsche Taycan?

The 2026 Porsche Taycan is rated between 251 and 315 miles, depending on the trim. The highest figure belongs to the 4 Perf Battery Plus 19in All-Season (M+S); every model year the EPA tested is listed on the page, and each row is a different version of the same car.

What does "US trim" mean on this page?

A trim is a version of the same car: same body, different wheels, motors or battery. The EPA tests each version separately, so one model can carry several range figures for the same year. Bigger wheels are the usual reason two rows differ, because they add drag and rolling resistance.

How much does it cost to charge a Porsche Taycan?

At the directory's median of $0.35 per kWh, filling the 82.3 kWh battery from empty at a DC post bills about $30.32, and a 10–80% session about $21.22. Both are metered energy, so the charging loss is inside them. The median is the middle of the per-kWh tariffs networks list; session fees, idle fees and parking are excluded, and a home tariff is often cheaper.

Can a Porsche Taycan use a Tesla Supercharger?

The Porsche Taycan's fast-charge plug is CCS1. Some Tesla sites in this directory report a CCS1 plug; whether a particular site accepts an adapter is not recorded, so filter the map for CCS1 before you rely on one.

How much does a Porsche Taycan cost?

The 2026 Porsche Taycan is listed from $105,800 for the Performance Battery up to $243,700 for the Turbo GT. Those are manufacturer list prices before sales tax, destination and delivery charges, options and any incentive, and a dealer's number will differ. 11 versions are priced for that model year.

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