Porsche Macan: The New Generation will be Electric

Porche Macan

The future of Porsche is electrified: after the launch of Taycan at the end of 2019 (and the derivative Cross Tourism in the following months), the Zuffenhausen manufacturer will continue its strategy, transforming the next generation of the Macan SUV into a totally electric model .

To announce it is the same Porsche in an official press release, in which the details of this model are outlined: like the Taycan electric sedan, even the new Macan will be built around an architecture with 800 V technology , which should make the SUV compatible with high power charging systems up to 350 kW. The starting point, however, will be the PPE (Premium Platform Electric) , developed in four hands with the "cousins" of Audi exclusively for electric vehicles.

German Porche Factory

There production of the new zero-emission SUV will take place in the same German factory in Leipzig where the current generation of Macan is produced. A factory created in 2000 to house the production of the first Cayenne (since 2002) and which has gradually expanded in the following years: today, 90,000 cars are being rolled out in Lipsia each year , including Macan, Cayenne and Panamera.

Porsche will therefore continue to invest in order to grow the Leipzig plant: in total, by 2022 the brand will invest more than 6 billion euros in electric mobility. The goal is ambitious: 50% of Porsche production in 2025 will have an electric powertrain . This does not mean that we will no longer see internal combustion engines: Porsche will work at optimizing petrol engines | Porsche says goodbye to Diesel | and the continuous improvement of plug-in hybrid vehicles .