- Uno-reverse card! Porsche’s Cayenne EV set to debut late 2025, ahead of the Boxster EV
- Also: the company’s Panamera should retain its gas engines for at least another decade or so
- New! Lamborghini’s first full EV is on track to launch soon, and might offer up to 2,000 hp
It seems Porsche (and Volkswagen Group) CEO Oliver Blume was uncharacteristically (for an automaker CEO) loose-lipped during a Q&A earlier this week, pulling back the veil a bit further than normal on future product plans for the German sports-car brand and some of its siblings. To start off, he revealed that the fourth-gen Cayenne is now going to debut before the next-gen Boxster, a reversal of what has been suggested in the past. Remember, both of these nameplates will now have large doses of electrification.
Additionally, Blume asserted the Cayenne EV will show up at an event “late this year” on the west coast of America, meaning the smart money will bet on the upcoming L.A. auto show. But fans of internal-combustion won’t have to rush out and buy an existing model loitering on a dealer lot before then; after all, the last-gen Cayenne gasser is set to live side-by-side with the next-gen Cayenne EV for several years yet.
This is in contrast to the Boxster and Macan, models whose powertrains will be all-electric and all-electric only when their new iterations are shoved into showrooms.
Speaking to those nameplates, the Boxster EV will now appear after the Cayenne EV mentioned earlier; while rumblings are being made that a new gas-powered crossover is being considered to slide into the Macan gasser’s place in the Porsche lineup. (We’d previously heard rumours the Macan may see its gas engine return, but I guess drafting a whole new model makes just as much sense to Porsche big-wigs.) Makes ya wonder why the brand isn’t treating that one like its big brother and offering the gas and EV versions simultaneously.
Elsewhere in the empire, Blume also said the Panamera will retain gas power “far into the 2030s,” according to outlets in attendance at this question-and-answer session. These new plans are basically an admission that previous goals of having up to four-fifths of Porsche annual sales come from EVs were wildly optimistic. According to data, only about 13% of deliveries in 2024 didn’t burn dead dinosaurs.
But there will be an EV at Lamborghini, it seems—a new battery-driven model to be sold alongside a healthy internal-combustion range, of course. The yet-to-be-named machine is set to be based on that Lanzador 2+2 “Ultra GT” Concept from a couple of years ago. Blume says tuning for this EV could allow for up to 2,000 horsepower, which is up from the previously promised 1,340 ponies, and a sum one usually only sees after comically tuning a car in Forza Horizon on Xbox.
“I promise that it will be a typical Lamborghini, something very emotional,” Blume is said to have mentioned whilst discussing the machine. He also confirmed it will be assembled in Italy.
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