Porsche’s electric-car offensive won’t include an all-electric 911, despite the manufacturer expecting fully electric and electrified models to account for 25 percent of its total sales by 2025.
The German carmaker has already confirmed it’s working on a plug-in hybrid 911, which will sit on top of the range as the most powerful 911 of all time, but it will never give its core sports car a fully electric powertrain.
This was confirmed by Porsche CEO Oliver Blume who spoke to Automotive News. He also added that we’ll have to wait for a few more years for the plug-in hybrid 911, which will be based on the upcoming new-generation 992 scheduled to debut later this year.
“We are waiting for the further evolution in battery technology so you should not expect a plug-in version in the coming years. It’s currently planned when the 992 is refreshed,” Blume said.
Porsche’s CEO revealed that the company was considering whether to build a fully-electric version of the 718 Boxster and Cayman models, but they don’t need to act yet. “We launched the 718 Boxster and Cayman in 2016,” he said. “We are not yet at the point where we have to decide how things will progress”.
Porsche will launch its first all-electric model, the Mission E, next year featuring an 800-volt electrical architecture that will give it a 62-mile driving range after just four minutes of charging.
