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Turbo GT with the Weissach Pack, there’s a new plug for that—the CCS1 port that usually lives on the passenger side has been replaced by a NACS port.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.
The driver’s side retains the J1772 AC port.
Porsche has also upgraded the infotainment system in the MY27 Taycan with software we’ve already seen in the electric Macan and Cayenne. The hardware in the Porsche Communication Management module is much faster than before (Porsche says up to five times) and there are more customizable widgets and an onboard personal assistant. The system is fully OTA-updatable, Porsche says.
All of those tweaks should make the Taycan easier to live with. E-Shift is supposed to make it more fun. The idea is simple: replicate a paddleshift semi-automatic transmission by changing the throttle mapping and lift-off regenerative braking, using paddles on the steering wheel. Hyundai proved with its Ioniq 5 N that, when done right, it adds a whole extra level of fun. As has Honda with its S+ shift in the new Prelude, and Ferrari is doing something similar (but a little different) with the electric Luce. (Although when done inexpertly, it’s not that great—the Lexus RZ’s M Mode was underwhelming.)
E-Shift is enabled as an extra mode on the GT Sport steering wheel, and like those other EVs, if you don’t want to pretend you have a gearbox, just don’t press that button.
