Porsche's Electric Road Map Revealed
Porsche is aiming for 80% of sales to be full EV by 2025 and will introduce an electric 718 model within the next three years.
Jul 22, 2022
The famed sportscar manufacturer will convert most of its existing line-up to electric power and will add a seventh model line to the portfolio, which is expected to take the form of a large SUV.
With the Taycan EV already outselling the 911 at a global level, Porsche also aspires to be functioning with a carbon-neutral supply chain by 2025.
Product plans revealed at Porsche’s Capital Markets Day presentation show that the premium performance and SUV maker will largely base its future EV aspirations around converting most of Porsche’s existing portfolio to electric power. But it will also add a seventh model line that will take the form of a large luxury SUV.
Porsche is targeting 80% of its sales to be EV by 2030 and hopes to function with a carbon neutral supply chain by the same year.
Buoyed on by the success of the Taycan, which now outsells the 911 at a global level, Porsche has begun development of a new flagship electric SUV, codenamed ‘K1’, that will sit above the Cayenne.
Porsche says the model will sit on a new ‘SSP Sport’ architecture, a derivative of the standard SSP platform that will be utilised Audi, Volkswagen, and Bentley.
The ‘SSP Sport’ architecture will incorporate next generation technology that’s being developed within the VW Group’s Artemis program, but will forge ahead with its own bespoke elements, giving Porsche more flexibility to focus on the aspects it wants to. This will affect
While shared across other Volkswagen Group brands, aspects of the new platform’s development will be bespoke to Porsche, facilitating the Stuttgart-headquartered carmaker’s own future battery technology, new-age oil-cooled electric motors and 900V electrical architecture. Some elements of these new technologies have already been seen on Porsche concept cars like the Mission R revealed at last year’s Munich IAA motor show
At a production level, Porsche’s future all-electric Panamera and second generation Taycan will share this SSP Sport platform, but those models are not expected to arrive until much later into the decade.
Porsche also confirmed that an electric 718 will launch in 2025. The 911 will remain combustion-powered in large part, with a new hybrid model confirmed to be coming in the next two years. The next Cayenne will also go electric within the next few years.