Porsche Is Adding An All-electric Cayenne Coupe To Its Lineup

Porsche will commencement trading an all-electric Cayenne coupe successful precocious summer, nan latest awesome from nan German automaker that it still sees marketplace request for EVs.

The Cayenne coupe EV — which has 4 doors, dissimilar a accepted coupe — will subordinate respective different all-electric variants of nan SUV erstwhile it comes to marketplace later this year, including nan guidelines Cayenne Electric, Cayenne S Electric, and Cayenne Turbo Electric. Porsche does, aft all, emotion its variants.

And it could beryllium its astir successful. When Porsche introduced a coupe type of its gas-powered Cayenne successful 2019, it took conscionable a twelvemonth for nan sportier type of nan crossover SUV to seizure 20% of income wrong nan Cayenne lineup. Five years later, nan coupe version accounts for 40% of Cayenne sales, according to Porsche. In immoderate markets, nan coupe accounts for arsenic overmuch arsenic 90%.

In different words, nan numbers propose that nan all-electric Cayenne coupe is simply a worthy stake moreover pinch its six-figure value tag.

The Cayenne Coupe Electric (as it is officially branded) won’t switch its gas-powered aliases hybrid brethren, dissimilar nan Porsche Macan compact SUV, which will only beryllium sold arsenic an EV aft this year.

The institution says nan Cayenne coupe EV will beryllium sold alongside nan different substance variants good beyond 2030, according to a Porsche spokesperson. That could nutrient immoderate valuable information for Porsche connected what spirit of Cayenne coupe consumers really want to bargain — and whether this electrical version proves to beryllium its astir popular. (The other beforehand trunk abstraction unsocial could power immoderate buyers, not to mention state prices.)

None of those questions tin beryllium answered, however, until nan Cayenne Electric, Cayenne S Electric, Cayenne Turbo Electric, and Cayenne Coupe Electric spell connected waste globally later this twelvemonth — astir 9 months aft nan EV type was first unveiled.

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When nan Cayenne coupe EV does spell connected sale, it will beryllium offered successful 3 variants: nan guidelines version, an S coupe, and a turbo coupe. (If you deliberation that’s a lot, spell cheque retired really galore versions of its flagship Porsche Taycan EV exist.)

The Cayenne Coupe Electric starts astatine $113,800, not including nan $2,350 transportation fee. Prices emergence from location pinch nan Cayenne S Coupe Electric astatine $131,200, and nan Cayenne Turbo Coupe Electric astatine $168,000. Consumers can, of course, walk moreover much by adding connected options for illustration nan lightweight athletics package, which includes a c roof, capacity tires, and motorsports-inspired interior features.

For that benignant of money, consumers will get a batch of horsepower and torque tucked wrong a crossover assemblage pinch a sloping roofline that is reminiscent of nan iconic 911. All variants of nan coupe EV travel pinch an 800-volt powertrain, aerial suspension, and a shared tile creation that features a caller windshield and an adaptive rear spoiler. The Cayenne coupe EV is besides equipped pinch nan North American Charging Standard port, aliases NACS, that Tesla popularized, arsenic as good arsenic an further AC charging port.

From here, immoderate specs alteration depending connected nan type a user buys. The guidelines coupe EV generates up to 435 horsepower and 615 pound-feet of torque, pinch a apical velocity of 143 miles per hr and a zero-to-60 clip of 4.5 seconds.

For those who aren’t satisfied, location are 2 much powerful options that push those capacity specs overmuch higher. At nan apical end, nan turbo type generates up to 1,139 horsepower and 1,106 pound-feet of torque — putting it up location pinch nan Tesla Model S Plaid, Lucid Air Sapphire, and Porsche Taycan Turbo GT. The turbo type has a apical velocity of 162 mph and tin recreation from 0 to 60 mph successful an eye-watering 2.4 seconds.

Porsche hasn’t released EPA estimates for nan scope these coupe EVs will present connected a azygous charge. But early real-world testing is successful statement pinch different Cayenne electrical variants, which is astir 360 miles. Of course, if coupe EV buyers opt for those larger tires — which create much rolling resistance, requiring nan artillery to activity harder — nan scope could driblet astir 10%.