Porsche offers a number of
electrified vehicles. It has yet put a pure EV into production, or base on on
the 718. But that's just what we have here. It's the Cayman E-Volution, and
it's part of Porsche's display at the Electric Vehicle Symposium in its home
town of Stuttgart.
The prototype appears to be based not on the new 718
Cayman (internally dubbed 982), but on the previous 981 model. Only instead of
a boxer six (or the newer model's turbo four), the E-Volution is all-electric.
Don't think that means it's slow, though: in fact,
with a 0-100 km/h time quoted at 3.3 seconds, it'll beat any gasoline-powered Cayman
to date off the line – quicker than the 4.2 seconds it takes for either the
previous Cayman GT4 or the new 718 Cayman S to come up to speed.
It'll also travel for 200 kilometers on
a full charge, which is a fair bit better than most EVs you can buy.
Unfortunately the Cayman E-Volution won't see production, but Porsche is
working hard at bringing its Mission E concept to market – with an even better
range.
The manufacturer says the production Mission E
electric sports car will boast a range of 500 kilometers (310 miles), putting
it right in Tesla territory (the Model 3 offering the same, and the Model S up
to 335). With the new accumulator-based charging network Porsche is working on
installing across Europe (together with Audi, BMW, Mercedes, and Ford), it'll
also charge up from empty to 80 percent of capacity in just 15 minutes.
