SAN FRANCISCO -- Porsche has long been seen as making high-performance cars, but its first full-electric model is decidedly average in one very significant respect: range.
The Porsche Taycan Turbo on Wednesday clocked in with an estimated range of just 201 miles (324 km) on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's website.
That is roughly in the middle of the pack among the base models for the newest electric vehicles listed on FuelEconomy.gov.
By comparison, Tesla's lowest-range Model S sedan has a total range rating of 287 miles, and its best-selling Model 3 is at 220 miles.
The Porsche Taycan Turbo starts at $150,900 ($168,000), compared with $39,490 for the entry level Model 3 and $79,990 for the base Model S.
"We are not disappointed," Marcus Kabel, Porsche's U.S. spokesman, said in an email. The company sought to build a "true Porsche" that would strike a balance between performance and enough range to meet customer need, he wrote.
