New electric Porsche Taycan to be cheaper than a Jaguar I-Pace?
The Porsche Taycan – the car we’ve known as the Porsche Mission E – will be priced between the Cayenne and Panamera when it launches.
Porsche’s Oliver Blume revealed last September that they expect the Taycan to cost about the same as the Panamera which, in the UK, would mean something around the £70k mark.
That seemed a perfectly sensible ‘come and buy me’ price for a car promising so much, but now it seems the Taycan may be a chunk cheaper than that.
Speaking to Automotive News, Robert Meier, Porsche’s Model Line Director for the Taycan, declared that Porsche intend to price the starting point of the Taycan between the Cayenne and Panamera. Which makes it cheaper.
In the UK, the entry-level Cayenne costs £56k and the entry-level Panamera £68k. So if Herr Meier is being literal that would make the Porsche Taycan’s starting point ££62k, undercutting the Jaguar I-Pace by £2k and a chunk cheaper than the Audi e-tron and Mercedes EQC. Which will make things very interesting.
Of course, an entry-level Taycan is likely to have less power and a smaller capacity battery than the potential range-topper, and Porsche’s CFO, Lutz Meschke, has said he wants to offer a range-topping Taycan at more than twice that price.
But an entry-level Porsche Taycan at a bit over £60k sounds very appealing.
Mark Geller says
Anyone who thinks that a Porsche Taycan will be cheaper than an equivalent spec’d I-Pace…I have a bridge for you to buy!!
The way Porsche adds the options on, for things you would never think should be an option, chrono clock anyone?, will make this easily the most expensive of the electrics, even in the base. They are not going to put out a 150 mile Taycan as a base with a cheap price. They will all be over 200 miles and no one is going to want one striped. Not going to happen. My quess is closer to a 100 spec’d reasonably. Why not? they can get it and they will.