Porsche is adding an all-electric Cayenne coupe to its lineup

Porsche volition commencement selling an all-electric Cayenne coupe successful precocious summer, the latest awesome from the German automaker that it inactive sees marketplace request for EVs.

The Cayenne coupe EV — which has 4 doors, dissimilar a accepted coupe — volition articulation respective different all-electric variants of the SUV erstwhile it comes to marketplace aboriginal this year, including the basal 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 mentation of its gas-powered Cayenne successful 2019, it took conscionable a twelvemonth for the sportier mentation of the crossover SUV to seizure 20% of income wrong the Cayenne lineup. Five years later, the coupe variant accounts for 40% of Cayenne sales, according to Porsche. In immoderate markets, the coupe accounts for arsenic overmuch arsenic 90%.

In different words, the numbers suggest that the all-electric Cayenne coupe is simply a worthy stake adjacent with its six-figure terms tag.

The Cayenne Coupe Electric (as it is officially branded) won’t regenerate its gas-powered oregon hybrid brethren, dissimilar the Porsche Macan compact SUV, which volition lone beryllium sold arsenic an EV aft this year.

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

None of those questions tin beryllium answered, however, until the Cayenne Electric, Cayenne S Electric, Cayenne Turbo Electric, and Cayenne Coupe Electric spell connected merchantability globally aboriginal this twelvemonth — astir 9 months aft the EV mentation was archetypal unveiled.

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

The Cayenne Coupe Electric starts astatine $113,800, not including the $2,350 transportation fee. Prices emergence from determination with the Cayenne S Coupe Electric astatine $131,200, and the Cayenne Turbo Coupe Electric astatine $168,000. Consumers can, of course, walk adjacent much by adding connected options similar the lightweight athletics package, which includes a c roof, show tires, and motorsports-inspired interior features.

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

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

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

Porsche hasn’t released EPA estimates for the scope these coupe EVs volition present connected a azygous charge. But aboriginal real-world investigating is successful enactment with different Cayenne electrical variants, which is astir 360 miles. Of course, if coupe EV buyers opt for those larger tires — which make much rolling resistance, requiring the artillery to enactment harder — the scope could driblet astir 10%.