At its annual press conference, Porsche
confirmed that the Taycan Cross Turismo will be coming soon – the jacked-up
wagon version of Zuffenhausen’s first ever electric vehicle will be unveiled at
the end of the year, followed some time later by the brand new, all-electric
Macan in 2022.
The Cross Turismo was previewed by the
Mission E Cross Turismo concept in 2018. That show car previewed the sleek wagon
bodystyle of the also-upcoming Sport Turismo and added a raised ride height,
black body cladding all around and large blue wheels wrapped in knobbly
off-road tyres.
Projected figures for the car include a
power output of more than 600 PS (in line with the 625 PS produced by the
Taycan Turbo and Turbo S, which we now know comes from twin electric motors
that provide all-wheel drive), a zero-to-100 km/h sprint time of under 3.5
seconds (and to 200 km/h in under 12 seconds) and an 800-volt electrical architecture
that allows the car to be charged for a range of around 400 km in 15 minutes.
Porsche also announced that the
next-generation Macan, which will also be a pure electric vehicle, will go into
production in 2022. It’s a year off from what was previously bandied about, but
it will still be built in Leipzig, based on the Premium Platform Electric (PPE)
architecture of the Taycan and sold alongside the current petrol-powered Macan
in a “transitional phase”.
