Electric Macan
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Burning Brakes
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Electric Macan
Looks like Porsche is announcing their third EV tomorrow. An electric SUV based on the Macan.
http://thedrive.com/news/26626/elect...in-2022-report
http://thedrive.com/news/26626/elect...in-2022-report
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Interesting. So the Macan goes all electric?
Meanwhile, still no Taycan......
Meanwhile, still no Taycan......
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Not a lot of details in the press release. I was hoping for more info.
Also, hard to tell if it means the new Macan will be purely electric or some combination of plug in hybrid and pure electric. For Porsche to go pure electric only on their highest volume vehicle would be a bit surprising.
Also, hard to tell if it means the new Macan will be purely electric or some combination of plug in hybrid and pure electric. For Porsche to go pure electric only on their highest volume vehicle would be a bit surprising.
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I think they could have a range - ICE, Hybrid, and pure EV Macan - but I agree moving to 100% EV for the Macan as the _ONLY_ option would be bold and surprising…
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The Supervisory Board of Porsche AG has decided to manufacture the next generation of the Macan as a fully electric series. This will be the first all-electric compact SUV from Porsche
Porsche’s confidence in bringing out high-volume (well, for them at least) EVs means a couple of things: 1) they feel confident in their battery design and supply and can scale that across multiple product lines with VW, 2) they’re getting tremendous customer feedback that’s pro-EV. The next few years are going to be fascinating to watch!
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Bold - very bold things are getting interesting.
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probably very well it took about 2 hours until my wife asked when she can trade her Model X for a EV Macan...
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well I know lime thinks that - but I doubt all of the forums think that - please don't lump the rest of the forum in with your outdated and hostile attitude towards EV's - they are coming and people who drive them never want to go back to a gas car - you're welcome to keep your gas cars, but please don't assert that makes your right or better - Porsche is a conservative company with an excellent history and engineering skills - if they are doing this I'm sure it because they now understand two things
1. EV's are the future
2. things are going well with the Taycan and the superiority of the EV drivetrain has won over people inside the company...
and the 3% that do think EV's are the future is a growing and not shrinking demographic - so you can get with the program or be left behind - your choice.
1. EV's are the future
2. things are going well with the Taycan and the superiority of the EV drivetrain has won over people inside the company...
and the 3% that do think EV's are the future is a growing and not shrinking demographic - so you can get with the program or be left behind - your choice.
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Burning Brakes
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Dave,
I'm a huge EV supporter (currently own two EV's plus a plug in hybrid), but I'm very surprised Porsche would not introduce this EV as a "new" model similar to the Taycan and the Panamera (I know they are different in size etc, but relatively similar).
The Macan must generate huge dollars for Porsche. Replacing their best selling model with an all electric vehicle certainly has a lot of risk short term, which is odd because Porsche typically seems risk adverse. The primary reason I can think of going all in on an electric Macan is to eliminate the development cost the next gen ICE powered Macan, but considering it's heavily platformed with the Q5, it's still a surprising move.
I will add that if the tipping point for EV's is in the next couple of years, Porsche could be very successful with an all electric Macan.
I'm a huge EV supporter (currently own two EV's plus a plug in hybrid), but I'm very surprised Porsche would not introduce this EV as a "new" model similar to the Taycan and the Panamera (I know they are different in size etc, but relatively similar).
The Macan must generate huge dollars for Porsche. Replacing their best selling model with an all electric vehicle certainly has a lot of risk short term, which is odd because Porsche typically seems risk adverse. The primary reason I can think of going all in on an electric Macan is to eliminate the development cost the next gen ICE powered Macan, but considering it's heavily platformed with the Q5, it's still a surprising move.
I will add that if the tipping point for EV's is in the next couple of years, Porsche could be very successful with an all electric Macan.
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Oh BTW we should be expecting a possible recession right around that time as well which would likely kill new car sales right along with the fledgling EV market..... Regardless of how you feel and what you want to see happen you need to be realistic, Porsche is taking a massive risk.
Drastically altering their current best seller by reducing it's widespread appeal down to practically nothing with a possible recession on the horizon..... It's almost as if VW wants Porsche to fail... Or perhaps they view Porsche as their expendable division that will only remain viable as a brand if they prevail in this high risk endeavor.
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Burning Brakes
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This makes more sense.
"Porsche will reportedly continue to sell its current, internal combustion-powered Macan crossover alongside its electric successor."
http://thedrive.com/news/26695/porsc...-gen-ev-report
"Porsche will reportedly continue to sell its current, internal combustion-powered Macan crossover alongside its electric successor."
http://thedrive.com/news/26695/porsc...-gen-ev-report
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This makes more sense.
"Porsche will reportedly continue to sell its current, internal combustion-powered Macan crossover alongside its electric successor."
http://thedrive.com/news/26695/porsc...-gen-ev-report
"Porsche will reportedly continue to sell its current, internal combustion-powered Macan crossover alongside its electric successor."
http://thedrive.com/news/26695/porsc...-gen-ev-report