With a maximum charging speed of 270kW, the Macan Electric doesn’t quite match the 320kW of the revised Taycan. However, it has another trick up its sleeve: bank charging.
If the rapid charger in question is specified to only 400V (rather than the ideal of 800V), the car essentially splits its 100kWh battery in two, charging each half at 135kW.
Elsewhere, the Macan Electric deploys Porsche’s Integrated Power Box (IPB). This combines the on-board AC charger, high-voltage heater and 12V DC-to-DC converter into one 19kg package squeezed between the rear seats and the battery below, freeing up space for the ‘frunk’ – something plenty of EVs don’t have.
As for price, the Macan opens up at £67,200. The Macan 4 is actually less than £3000 more expensive, at £69,800, while the better-equipped Turbo Electric costs from £95,000 and the 4S slots in between.
That’s a little pricey for what remains only a mid-sized electric SUV. As EVs in so many corners of the new car market finally begin to look that bit more reasonably priced compared with their ICE counterparts, the ones that don’t suddenly become more and more likely to be singled out and shot at.
And that, perhaps not for entirely fair reasons, is the position in which the Macan Electric finds itself. The UK is the only European country in which it’s being sold alongside the old ICE Macan, which itself is likely to make for some problematic, if simplistic, comparisons (the EV costs a little over £12k more).
Compared with the entry-level Audi Q6 E-tron, meanwhile (to which the car is closely technically related), the single-motor Macan is a little over £7000 more expensive (although, if you compare like for like – or as close as you can – on battery capacity and motor power, the gap is more like £4000).
