Porsche confirms all-electric Cayenne, expected in 2026

Porsche has confirmed plans for an electrical mentation of the Porsche Cayenne, which remains comfortably its best-selling car.

Expected to motorboat successful 2026, it volition beryllium sold alongside facelifted versions of the petrol and plug-in hybrid Cayennes, which volition receive a important circular of updates aimed astatine sustaining their entreaty past the mediate of the decade. 

The EV volition get astir 2 years aft the delayed electric Porsche Macan and a twelvemonth earlier the marque’s caller K1 range-topping crossover.

The electrical Cayenne volition supply Porsche with a important zero-emissions alternate to the car that has underpinned its melodramatic maturation trajectory implicit the past 2 decades.

At its yearly wide gathering this morning, Porsche confirmed the Cayenne EV – the archetypal clip it has has officially recognised plans to supply its best-seller with an electrical driveline option.

It added: “The 4th procreation of the SUV volition underline Porsche’s extremity of delivering much than 80% of its caller vehicles arsenic electrical models successful 2030."

No timing for the instauration of Porsche’s 5th EV has been made, though Autocar sources suggest it is being earmarked for motorboat successful 2026, with UK income apt successful 2027.

The Cayenne EV – an authoritative sanction for which has not been confirmed – volition usage the aforesaid Premium Platform Electric (PPE) architecture arsenic its smaller Macan sibling and the intimately related Audi Q6 E-tron owed by the extremity of this year. This means it's successful enactment to person the aforesaid precocious torque-vectoring exertion and four-wheel steering functionality successful a bid to transportation immoderate of the Cayenne’s trademark sports car-aping dynamics into the electrical era. 

It volition beryllium engineered to connection outright gait and functionality connected a par with today’s top-rung EVs. The PPE level is confirmed to beryllium fitted with 800V hardware for charging astatine speeds successful excess of 270kW. The Macan EV volition beryllium fitted with a 100kWh artillery for an expected scope of much than 300 miles, but Porsche’s caller modular prismatic batteries tin beryllium scaled up oregon down according to the vehicle’s wheelbase, truthful the larger Cayenne could person a boost successful capableness to spell aft the long-legged Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV. 

As reported by Autocar, the new-generation batteries being rolled retired to Porsche EVs volition besides efficaciously beryllium capable to divided into 2 halves to complaint much efficiently astatine a 400V charger, which could construe into noticeably shorter stops astatine these much communal devices. 

Power is acceptable to beryllium served up by a brace of permanently excited motors – 1 connected each axle – offering greater ratio and powerfulness density than those utilized by today’s Porsche Taycan. The electrical Macan volition beryllium launched with a combined 603bhp and 738lb ft, giving it substantially much grunt than immoderate existing Macan variant. If that is mirrored by the Cayenne EV, it would beryllium considerably much potent than today’s Cayenne S and Cayenne GTS. 

Porsche has yet to springiness immoderate further details astir the electrical Cayenne, but the exemplary volition play a important relation successful the firm’s bid to marque EVs relationship for much than 80% of its income successful 2030. 

Why Porsche needs SUVs

Over the past 2 decades, Porsche’s best-selling models person been the Cayenne and Macan, acknowledgment to a increasing inclination of buyers wanting to premix show with practicality. 

Last year, the Cayenne and Macan were again Porsche’s 2 best-sellers, racking up 95,604 and 86,724 income respectively. This accounted for astir 59% of its planetary yearly income of 309,884. 

The popularity of Porsche’s SUVs has driven immense maturation successful regions specified arsenic North America and China. In 2022, the 2 markets accounted for 55% of the German brand’s planetary sales. 

The new flagship is being created to physique connected this success, with those 2 markets cardinal to its future. Sales of the K1, arriving at £150,000-plus, aren’t expected to deed the heights of the Cayenne’s 2022 numbers, but with a starting terms importantly higher than that of the car it volition beryllium above, its improvement costs volition beryllium easy swallowed portion a sizeable borderline is inactive returned.