Charging a 2026 Porsche Taycan Performance Battery at home in Texas

At Texas's residential electricity rate of 16.11¢/kWh, a 2026 Porsche Taycan Performance Battery (rated 37.1 kWh per 100 miles by the EPA) costs $5.97 to drive 100 miles on home charging, against $16.02 for the same distance in a car averaging 25.5 mpg on gasoline at $4.085/gallon. That works out to 62.7% cheaper per mile than gasoline in Texas — charging at home is much cheaper than gas here.

Annual cost, at 15 thousands miles a year

Texas owners putting 15,000 annual miles on a 2026 Porsche Taycan Performance Battery spend about $896 on home electricity, compared to about $2,403 a gas-car equivalent would spend on fuel. Call it about $1,507 saved annually, at this mileage.

Cost of a full charge

At Texas's rate, fully covering this 2026 Porsche Taycan Performance Battery's 274-mile EPA range costs about $16.36 (101.6 kWh) — the energy the EPA test actually used, not the battery's rated size.

Where this ranks

Among all 20,400 state-and-model combinations this site tracks, charging a 2026 Porsche Taycan Performance Battery in Texas ranks 9,348 for cost savings versus gas — 1 being the best deal nationally. Separately, the Porsche Taycan Performance Battery ranks 198 of 400 EV models for raw efficiency, and Texas ranks 28 of 51 for cheapest residential electricity.

Next step: home charger installation

Everything above is the per-mile and per-year cost once a home charger exists — getting one installed is a separate electrical job whose price depends on your panel and wiring, not the state average used here.

Line up a few Texas electrician quotes for Level 2 install before you commit either way.

More on how this number was built

Every figure on this page traces to a named EIA or EPA dataset — see the methodology guide. Curious how Texas's 16.11¢/kWh compares? The guide to charging cost by state ranks every state side by side.