Electronics
2020 Porsche Cayenne Coupe will get E-Hybrid variant – Roadshow
The 2020 Porsche Cayenne Coupe will arrive within the US this fall, with base, S and Turbo variations initially out there at launch. However in typical Porsche trend, extra variants shall be provided within the not-too-distant future, the following of which shall be a Cayenne Coupe E-Hybrid.
“You possibly can count on a hybrid model,” a Porsche govt informed Roadshow throughout a media occasion for the Cayenne Coupe in Austria on Saturday. It is unclear precisely when this mannequin will launch, but it surely’s secure to imagine it’s going to observe the opposite three gasoline-only variants.
It is also secure to imagine the Coupe E-Hybrid will share its powertrain with the usual, electrified Cayenne. Meaning we are able to count on a turbocharged, three.Zero-liter V6 paired with a 14.1-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery and electrical motor, for a complete system output of 455 horsepower and 516 pound-feet of torque. That’ll put the E-Hybrid proper between the 434-horsepower S and 541-horsepower Turbo within the Cayenne Coupe vary.
On common, the Coupe fashions are priced round $10,000 increased than their equal Cayenne variants. Meaning Coupe E-Hybrid pricing ought to land someplace round $89,000; the usual Cayenne E-Hybrid has an MSRP of $79,900.
The Cayenne E-Hybrid is a powerful machine, Editor-in-Chief Tim Stevens reporting “it is loads fast sufficient to maintain up with site visitors, even when not burning gasoline, and naturally is blissfully clean and quiet,” when he drove the electrified Porsche final yr. We count on nothing much less from the forthcoming Coupe variant as effectively.