PORSCHE this week confirmed plans to construct a brand new all-electric SUV bigger than the present vary topping Cayenne.
The uber-Cayenne will goal the US market and additional develop the German model’s SUV portfolio.
“We plan so as to add a brand new luxurious, all-electric SUV mannequin to our engaging portfolio,” mentioned Porsche CEO Oliver Blume.
“It’s going to roll off the manufacturing line at our Leipzig plant and can additional develop our place within the luxurious automotive section. This can additional develop our place within the luxurious automotive section.
“We’re focusing on the upper margin segments specifically and goal to faucet into new gross sales alternatives on this means.”
Automotive Information Europe (ANE) says Porsche goals to repeat the success of its Taycan electrical sedan which was an surprising success for the automaker. The Taycan now outsells the 911 sports activities automobile.
In accordance with a Porsche spokesman in Australia, Porsche’s new giant SUV will goal BMW’s iX and can share Porsche’s adaptable SSP Sport platform with subsequent Taycan and EV Panamera
“The brand new SSP structure is a devoted electrical automobile platform destined for a variety of totally different manufacturers throughout the Volkswagen Group,” the spokesperson advised GoAuto.
Sharing uber-Cayenne’s underpinnings would be the soon-to-arrive third-generation Panamera and second-generation Taycan.
Further particulars of the uber-Cayenne are underneath tight wraps, however GoAuto can report the automobile can be priced above the Macan and Cayenne when it’s launched throughout the latter half of the last decade.
European web site Autocar experiences rumours within the US suggesting the brand new SUV might be the unidentified automobile proven as a design mannequin in a presentation to a bunch of North American Porsche sellers late final 12 months.
Autocar says sellers who attended described what they noticed was wider and bigger than Cayenne including that it had a flat rear design, sharing nothing with the styling of both Macan or present Cayenne.
Uber-Cayenne introduces a seventh string to the Porsche line-up, which presently consists of Boxster/Cayman, 911, Macan, Cayenne, Panamera and Taycan.
In addition to revealing the plans for the brand new SUV mannequin, Mr Blume disclosed that Porsche has been granted the engineering lead inside Volkswagen Group for the brand new Sport variant of the SSP structure.
Autocar tells us the brand new Porsche-developed electrical automobile platform attracts on the “spine” of the usual SSP construction, which is ready to make its debut in 2025 with the launch of the manufacturing model of the Volkswagen Trinity – a Tesla Mannequin 3-rivalling elevate again prone to be offered underneath the ID 4 Saloon identify.
“Among the many SSP Sport’s key developments can be high-performance electrical motors and battery parts, in a technique much like that’s set to be undertaken by Mercedes-Benz and its AMG efficiency automobile division. Additionally it is anticipated to assist an 800V electrical structure and 350kW charging.”
Autocar experiences the identical platform can be utilized by upcoming electrical fashions deliberate by AUdi, Bentley and Lamborghini.
Whereas Porsche’s new SUV mannequin is ready to be primarily based on the SSP Sport structure, Mr Blume’s presentation confirmed upcoming electrical variations of the Macan and Cayenne will sit on the PPE (Premium Platform Electrical) structure as a result of make its first look within the Audi A6 e-tron.
Autocar experiences that Porsche additionally revealed the subsequent Panamera is ready to go electrical in a transfer that can twin it with the second-generation Taycan.
Whether or not each fashions can be offered alongside one another or amalgamated into one mannequin has not but been confirmed, though solutions are that Porsche will proceed with each fashions.
“Camouflaged Panamera prototypes have been noticed winter testing, prompting hypothesis of a combustion-engined alternative – though it seems now that an intensive replace to get the saloon to the top of its lifecycle is extra seemingly,” says Autocar.
With Autocar and Automotive Information Europe.
