- An electrical Porsche Cayenne debuts in late 2025
- The electrical SUV shall be a real next-generation design based mostly on VW Group’s PPE platform
- The present gas-powered Cayenne will stick round, with updates deliberate to maintain it recent into the following decade
Porsche will unveil an electrical model of its top-selling Cayenne midsize SUV later this yr, CEO Oliver Blume revealed throughout a Q&A session on the automaker’s annual basic assembly on Wednesday.
Gross sales ought to comply with in 2026, that means the electrical Cayenne will seemingly attain U.S. showrooms as a 2027 mannequin. Manufacturing shall be dealt with on the similar Volkswagen Group plant in Bratislava, Slovakia, the place the present gas-powered Cayenne is constructed.
Porsche confirmed plans for an electrical Cayenne greater than a yr in the past, and prototypes have been in public view for many of that point, together with for each the common Cayenne physique fashion and the extra rakish Cayenne Coupe.
The electrical Cayenne shall be a real next-generation design based mostly on VW Group’s PPE (Premium Platform Electrical) platform, which additionally underpins the electrical Macan.
2024 Porsche Macan Electrical Turbo
For the electrical Macan, the platform accommodates a 100-kwh (95-kwh usable) battery pack and a motor driving every axle. Mixed output for the Macan EV at the moment tops out at 630 hp within the Turbo mannequin, and even larger outputs are seemingly for the electrical Cayenne, probably by way of a quad-motor setup.
Regardless of the arrival of the electrical Cayenne, the present gas-powered Cayenne—which has been on sale for the reason that 2019 mannequin yr and obtained a significant replace for 2024—will stick round. Regardless of its age, Porsche bought 102,889 examples final yr, accounting for nearly one out of each three gross sales on the automaker.
Because of its recognition and the slower-than-expected adoption of EVs, particularly within the premium sector, Porsche plans to maintain the gas-powered Cayenne on sale effectively into the following decade, with additional updates deliberate to maintain it recent. One other spherical of updates is predicted subsequent yr, with prototypes already noticed. These updates will seemingly align a number of the gas-powered Cayenne’s know-how with that of the electrical Cayenne.
This may not be the case for the gas-powered Macan, which ends manufacturing in 2026. At its annual basic assembly, Porsche stated it’s evaluating a separate gas-powered SUV in the identical phase because the Macan for a doable launch close to the top of the last decade.