The Porsche Cayenne will become purely electric in 2026
- Porsche has just announced that the future Cayenne SUV planned for 2026 will be purely electric and it will still be produced at the Slovakian site in Bratislava. The future Cayenne will be the first battery electric SUV to be produced there, as the VW Touareg and Audi Q7/Q8 will be offered later in this configuration.
- The Slovak factory is currently preparing the facelift of the Porsche Cayenne which will be effective in 2023 (the model was born in 2018). In addition to this facelift, the model will benefit from more powerful combustion engines and plug-in hybrids.
- After the Taycan (2019), the Macan (2023) and the Boxster/Cayman (2025), the Cayenne will become in 2026 the fourth model in the Porsche range equipped with a purely electric powertrain. Only the 911 and the Panamera, will remain equipped with traditional gasoline engines (plug-in hybrid or not).
- Porsche has announced that it could launch another battery electric SUV, which will be produced in Leipzig from 2027-2028, and which will be located in the carmaker's range above the Cayenne, therefore at the level of the Lamborghini Urus SUV. The launch of such a model shows that Porsche is not looking to make volume by extending its range of vehicles to lower segments. The carmaker could have produced, for example, a C-segment SUV, the size of an Audi Q4 E-Tron to attract a new segment of customers and compete more directly with C-segment electric SUVs.