Porsche’s most popular model is going electric, and the brand has just confirmed it’s happening soon.
Within about three years, an electric Porsche Cayenne SUV will hit key markets as part of the brand’s efforts to reach 80 per cent of its sales as fully electric cars by 2030.
The confirmation comes after a Porsche press conference focused on its financials and corporate progress, in which Porsche Board Chair Oliver Blume also confirmed the brand is « expanding our product portfolio with new sports car concepts ».
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Two of those new products will be electric versions of its two SUVs, the Macan and Cayenne.
« The all-electric Macan has reached the home straight and will be available to customers in 2024, » the brand confirmed, before the Porsche 718 small sports car goes full-BEV, followed by its most popular model, the Cayenne.
Porsche has also confirmed another SUV will join the line-up, positioned above the Cayenne in terms of size, and will also be fully electric.
Porsche says this model, currently called K1 internally, will offer « a completely new experience inside the vehicle, » suggesting it could become a rival to the likes of the BMW XM and the Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV.
Before then, the Cayenne will undergo what the brand calls « one of the most comprehensive upgrades in the history of Porsche », with a new chassis and « three further-developed plug-in hybrids with greater ranges ».
The Cayenne EV will then arrive in 2026, with an approximately 100kWh battery pack, offering a range somewhere approaching the 500km mark as well as an 800V architecture, allowing charging speeds in excess of 270kW.
The onslaught of electrification comes as the brand aims to hit a target of 80 per cent of its sales being fully electric by 2030, so the Cayenne and Macan are in a good position to achieve this.
The Macan tops Cayenne for sales in Australia, but the story is different for the brand’s worldwide totals.
In 2022, the Cayenne overtook the Macan globally, with Porsche reporting both as its two most popular models.
« The models with the highest demand again in 2022 were the brand’s SUVs: the Porsche Cayenne was delivered a total of 95,604 times. The Macan followed in second place with 86,724 units delivered. »
