Porsche’s new SUV Electric; larger than a Cayenne

Porsche plots new luxury SUV. New model will share architecture with next Panamera and Taycan.

EV will sit on a new, Porsche-developed platform variant, priced above the Cayenne

Porsche has revealed plans for a new luxury SUV based on a ‘Sport’ variant of the Volkswagen Group’s Scalable Systems Platform (SSP).

The SUV will share the new SSP architecture with the upcoming third-generation Panamera – confirmed as an EV (see box, right) – and second-generation Porsche Taycan.

The new SUV is likely to be priced above the Macan and Cayenne when it is launched during the latter half of the decade, and suggestions are that it could be the unidentified car shown as a design model to North American Porsche dealers last year.

At the time, dealers described it as being “wider and larger than the Cayenne”, and said it featured a “flat rear design, not anything like the Macan and Cayenne”. Porsche CEO Oliver Blume said: “We plan to add to our attractive portfolio a luxury, all-electric SUV model, which will roll off the production line in Leipzig. This will further expand our position in the luxury automotive segment.

We are targeting the higher-margin segments in particular and aim to tap into new sales opportunities in this way.” Blume also disclosed that Porsche has been granted the engineering lead for the new Sport variant of the SSP architecture. The Porsche-developed electric car platform draws on the ‘backbone’ of the standard SSP structure, which is set to make its debut in 2025 with the launch of the Volkswagen ‘Trinity’ – a Tesla Model 3 rival likely to be sold under the ID 4 Saloon name.

Among the SSP Sport’s key developments will be high-performance electric motors and battery components, in a strategy similar to that set to be undertaken by Mercedes- Benz and its AMG performance car division. It is also expected to support an 800V electric architecture and 350kW rapid charging.

While Porsche’s new SUV model is set to be based on the SSP Sport architecture, Blume’s long-term platform strategy update presentation confirmed that upcoming electric versions of the Macan and Cayenne will sit on the Premium Platform Electric architecture due to make its first appearance with the launch of the Audi Q6 E-tron.

Autocar has been told the SSP platform is also set to be used by upcoming electric models from Audi, Bentley and Lamborghini.

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