The Porsche Taycan is officially in Singapore… online! Three versions of the all-electric Tesla-killer are on sale

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UPDATE: We’ve driven the car in Singapore! Click here to read our Porsche Taycan 4S review

UPDATE AUGUST 3, 2020: Porsche Singapore has revised the details on its extended warranty programme – the 10-year warranty is for the car, not the battery.

UPDATE JULY 27,2020: More info from Porsche Singapore on the Taycan debut and what purchasing includes. Story first published June 2, 2020.

SINGAPORE — Porsche’s all-electric Tesla-killer is on sale in Singapore, with prices for a three-variant lineup starting at S$485,988 for a Taycan 4S.

The price rises sharply to S$623,988 for the Taycan Turbo, and climbs all the way to S$767,988 for the Taycan Turbo S.

Porsche lists its prices here without including the Certificate of Entitlement or optional extras.

That’s likely because it’s possible to spend a lifetime on Porsche’s online configurator, lost in a dizzying array of tantalising options.

Of course, the Taycan 4S, Turbo and Turbo S differ in performance and spec, but it’s worth pointing out that the base model has a smaller battery than the Turbo versions. Its standard lithium-ion pack has 71kWh of net energy content, but you can upgrade it to the 83.7kWh Performance Battery Plus for S$26,536. 

That boosts driving range as well as performance, but even the basic Taycan 4S is no slouch. It zips to 100km/h in four seconds flat.

Here’s a summary of the main tech specs for all three cars:

	Taycan 4S	Taycan 4S*	Taycan Turbo	Taycan Turbo S
Battery (net)	71.0kWh	83.7kWh	83.7kWh	83.7kWh
Power	435hp	490hp	625hp	625hp
Overboost power	530hp	571hp	680hp	761hp
Torque	640Nm	650Nm	850Nm	1,050Nm
0-100km/h	4s	4s	3.2s	2.8s
0-200km/h	13.3s	12.9s	10.6s	9.8s

Interestingly, Porsche has a range predictor on its site. It lets you fiddle with the car spec and usage patterns, so you have a better idea of how many km to expect on a full charge in your Taycan. 

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You start with 303km of estimated range in the basic Porsche Taycan 4S. Add 21-inch Mission E design wheels and you’re down to 288km. Change the ambient temp from 20 to 30 degrees Celsius and you’re back up to 292km somehow. Tell it you expect to do 70 percent city and 30 percent highway mileage and you’re at 267km. And so on.

Interestingly, Porsche quotes super-fast charging times for the car, courtesy of its 800-volt architecture.

UPDATE: Porsche says each Taycan has the same five-year maintenance/warranty programme as other Porsches, while the battery is warrantied for eight-years, and customers can extend the vehicle and battery warranty to an impressive 10-years. Porsche Singapore has updated its information and says that the extension to a 10-year warranty is for the vehicle only, while the battery warranty remains at eight years.

Each Taycan also comes with the Mobile Charger Connect (above), which is a portable, cable-style charging unit that works with household or industrial electrical outlets. It doesn’t specify the charge rate for this device, but international specs put it as quick as 11kW – that’s probably with three-phase industrial power. A full charge will take around eight hours.

There is also the Porsche Charging Dock, which is basically the brand’s version of a standard wallbox – that costs S$1,695 and can charge the car at up to 9.6kW. A full top-up from zero takes 10.5 hours (or 9.5 hours for the standard, smaller battery).

You can also add on the Porsche Home Energy Manager, which Porsche says ‘can prevent the household power supply from being overloaded during the charging process and enable cost optimized charging.’ It costs S$2,227.

Charging from 5 percent to 80 percent with a 50kW DC charger takes 93 minutes, which are currently the fastest, publicly-available DC chargers in Singapore at SP and Shell stations.

But at full whack with a Porsche Turbo Charger the same job takes just 22 minutes 30 seconds.

Expect these to appear at Porsche Centres here, where customers should be able to stop by for a quick top-up; adding 100km of range takes just five minutes.

But it’s the car itself that’s scarily fast, especially in Turbo S trim. Our man Ben went to Innsbruck to drive the car last October and took it on a road trip to Munich. The drive evidently left him so speechless that he barely says two words around the office now.

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Porsche actually flew the Taycan into town for an early preview in November last year. Last we heard, the Taycan range is due for an actual launch here in August. It’s likely that order books have opened and early bird customers will get their cars then. Who else wonders how many Taycans are already taken?

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