Actually, Porsche had only intended to build electric cars. By 2030 at the latest, 80 percent of all models should run on electricity. But there are not enough customers.
Porsche is in the middle of a time when major strategic considerations have to be made about the model range.
For example, until just a few moments ago, the Germans thought it was a good idea to stop all sales of the gasoline-powered Macan throughout Europe. The brand's best-selling model in our latitudes.
The Macan model, previously the brand's best-selling SUV, Porsche stopped selling gasoline-powered SUVs this year.
Likewise, the 718 Cayman and Boxster models are on their way to being replaced by purely electric cars. And although the latter models are not here yet, Porsche is already feeling the consequences.
Sales of the Taycan, Porsche's first all-electric sports car, have seen a sharp decline and have more than halved this year. Both in sales and value on the used market.
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For the same reason, Porsche has already taken the consequence and begun an evaluation of the strategy of only building electric cars. An evaluation that means that the brand is now looking at whether to offer future models with a combustion engine anyway.
This means that future models can potentially be offered as both electric cars, hybrid cars and petrol cars, which is reminiscent of BMW's approach with different powertrains in the model range. In fact, the brand from Munich has always refused to put an end date on the internal combustion engine.
However, plans to reintroduce petrol engines may prove difficult to implement in already launched electric models. This applies, among other things, to the electric Macan and the latest versions of the 718 Cayman and Boxster.
If the cars are developed on a dedicated electric car platform, it will cost Porsche millions of euros to change the technology so that it plays together with, for example, petrol again.
Conversely, developments at other manufacturers, such as Fiat, indicate that hybrid solutions may be an option. Bad sales figures for the small but one hundred percent electric 500e are so bad that Fiat has not just stopped production. The brand is now developing a hybrid engine for the model. Read more about it here.
That Porsche thinks differently now than just a few months ago is already visible in the upcoming model range. The Germans would only have launched a new, seven-seater SUV as an electric car. But according to Carscoops, the management has regretted it and asked the engineers to develop a hybrid solution.
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