The Macan is Porsche’s hottest mannequin, managing 88,362 gross sales worldwide in 2021, with the Cayenne a detailed second at 83,071 gross sales.
However the Macan will probably be became an electrical car for its subsequent era. The present gas-powered Macan will stick round for a brief interval after the arrival of the electrical model, at present anticipated to be subsequent 12 months.
Regardless of the change to electrical energy, Porsche is assured it is going to be in a position to keep the Macan’s stellar gross sales efficiency in the long run, the automaker’s manufacturing chief, Albrecht Reimold, advised Germany’s Automobilwoche in an interview revealed on Sunday.
“We produce greater than 80,000 models per 12 months of the present era,” he stated. “In the long run, we additionally plan to provide the all-electric Macan on this scale.”
2024 Porsche Macan EV spy photographs – Picture credit score: S. Baldauf/SB-Medien
Reimold additionally stated the gas-powered Macan will probably be offered in parallel with the electrical model for less than about two years.
Porsche most likely will not have to attend lengthy for the electrical Macan to match gross sales of its gas-powered counterpart. The Taycan, which sits in the next worth bracket than the Macan, and within the unloved sedan section, managed 41,296 gross sales in 2021, making it Porsche’s third hottest mannequin. In distinction, the electrical Macan could have the benefit of an anticipated lower cost tag and membership within the scorching SUV section.
Porsche has been noticed testing prototypes of the electrical Macan. The car will look much like the gas-powered mannequin however sport the extra square-shaped headlights that debuted on the Taycan. Underpinning the car will probably be Volkswagen Group’s new PPE (Premium Platform Electrical) modular platform developed by Audi and Porsche. Audi is out testing a Q6 E-Tron, which would be the first recipient of the platform and a detailed relative of the electrical Macan.
Porsche in July additionally confirmed plans for electrical SUV positioned above the Cayenne. It is going to be constructed on the identical plant as the electrical Macan, although its arrival is not deliberate till the second half of the last decade. An electrical 718 sports activities automobile can also be due round 2025, and Porsche is considered planning an electrical successor to the Panamera as properly.
