Until now, Porsche has allowed others to drive the market for electric cars, but not more.
Now the German manufacturer of sports cars, headquartered in Stuttgart, into the fight, and it must not only be done with the long-awaited Taycan-model, which is on the way.
Also, the Macan model, in 2018 stood for a third of Porsche’s total vehicle sales, will in its next version be fully eldreven.
The electric version of the Porsche Macan is expected to be up and running ’at the beginning of the next decade’, writes the Porsche in a press release.
The u.s. bilmedie The Drive writes to more accurately talk about 2022. The electric car will, in this case countries a bit later than the Porsche Taycan and Taycan Cross Turismo, which is scheduled to hit the roads at the end of 2019.
Common to the three cars is that they must be operated by Porsche and Audi’s new 800-volt technology and get the same platform.
In 2022, we invest over six billion euros in electric cars, and by 2025 could 50 percent of all new Porsche models being driven by an electric motor, says Oliver Blume, managing director at Porsche AG, in a press release.
Porsche’s base for the production of electric cars will be the brand’s factory in Leipzig.
last summer decided Porsche to invest massively in the German factory, which now is being driven into position to handle the battery-powered cars.
the Leipzig plant opened in 2002. At the time, 259 staff brought in to develop and build Porsche’s first SUV model, the Cayenne. Now the factory has over 4000 employees and sends annually more than 90,000 cars out on the european roads.