The next-generation Porsche Macan goes electrical, however on Monday the automaker introduced one other, extra high-end, electrical SUV venture.
“We plan to add a new luxury, all-electric SUV model to our attractive portfolio,” Porsche CEO Oliver Blume mentioned in a press launch for the automaker’s Capital Markets Day. To be inbuilt Leipzig, Germany, the brand new EV is a part of Porsche’s technique to faucet higher-margin market segments, Blume mentioned.
The emphasis on luxurious and excessive revenue margins factors to one thing positioned pretty excessive in Porsche’s mannequin hierarchy, maybe above the Porsche Cayenne SUV. The new mannequin is also an electrical equal to the Cayenne, the best way the Taycan is a grand-touring equal to Panamera with taste from the 911, Porsche’s sports activities automobile talisman.
2022 Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT
The Taycan has grow to be a know-how flagship for the Porsche lineup, and an electrical SUV equal would possibly speed up the model additional in that course. Porsche does plan to start out constructing its personal battery cells—initially for racing. Executives consider that is essential to sustaining a know-how benefit within the coming EV age much like the one Porsche cultivated with internal-combustion engines.
Porsche did not focus on a timeline for this electrical flagship SUV, however famous that the electrical Macan will arrive first. It’s additionally planning an electrical variant of its 718-family sports activities vehicles (the Boxster convertible and Cayman coupe), due across the center of the last decade.
Earlier this yr it confirmed a charging community of its personal, alongside the 718 venture. The first station is scheduled to open at first of 2023, with a buildout thereafter.
Source: www.greencarreports.com