Bosses in Stuttgart have made no secret of Porsche’s plans for electrification over the last few years, dropping the odd hint to the media here and there. But at the brand’s annual press conference earlier today, it laid out what’s coming and when in official terms. Put simply, three well-known Porsche models are going fully electric, and there’s an all-new name coming to the fold, too.
Leading the charge will be the next-generation Macan, adopting electric power via the PPE platform developed jointly with Audi. We’ve known about this one for some time now, but Porsche has said that the car is now on the ‘home straight’, and it will be delivered in 2024. As such, expect to see the new Macan some point later this year.
After Porsche electrifies its smallest SUV, the next model on the agenda will be a fully-electric version of the 718 sportscar, which CEO Oliver Blume has said is “planned for the middle of the decade.” It’s expected to make use of a bespoke electric architecture based heavily on the Mission R prototype, though Porsche flat-combustion purists shouldn’t be too despondent – the 718 as we know it today won’t disappear yet, and the two will be sold in parallel to each other for a while.