Porsche will not build hybrid versions of the 911 and Boxster, according to CEO Michael Macht.
Although the company has announced that it will make a hybrid version of the new Cayenne, Macht rejected the idea of giving its sports cars a petrol-electric powertrain.
“It’s technically possible but it’s not part of the plan. It also adds weight,” he said. “We want brake regeneraton and stop-start for our sports cars, but not hybrid. They’re not driven in the city, where you get most of the advantages [of a hybrid].”
Macht also confirmed that Porsche was working on an all-electric sports car but wouldn’t put it into production unless it could reach the performance levels of a petrol model.
“There are some efforts to make a pure electric supercar,” he said, “but if Porsche is going to do that it must have the same performance and the same range as now. We want to make cars you can drive every day.”
He added that Porsche doesn’t think the performance and safety of lithium ion batteries is yet good enough to use them in an electric car or a hybrid.
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Porsche: No hyrbid sports car
Re: Porsche: 'no hybrid sports cars'
I don't think this is the message that will be coming from the VW Group... Everyone knows that EV and Hybrid will always be aimed at the urban environment. A place in which Porsche simply has no place. It has been widely acknowledged that technology will eventually have to serve us a much more sustainable 'longer range' transport solution to the petrol and diesel motor, but that EV/Hybrid will never be it. Maybe Hydrogen? Maybe simply some other solution that will make petrol/diesel motors much more efficient than we could ever imagine today? Where there is a will, there is a way...
Re: Porsche: 'no hybrid sports cars'
Agree with the above, nice to hear someone talking sense, rather than politically correct spin. What Porsche need to do now though is to make a smaller lighter more efficient sports car, but which has all the proper "Porscheness", to prove that fun and economy can go together. Come on guys, a return to your roots is required.