Porsche reveals all-electric Cayenne SUV, 'most powerful' production vehicle ever made by sports car company

Porsche connected Wednesday revealed an all-electric mentation of its Cayenne SUV, calling it the "most powerful" accumulation conveyance ever made by the German sports car manufacturer.

The 2026 Cayenne EV is susceptible of 1,139 horsepower, 0-60 mph successful 2.4 seconds and up to 1,106 foot-pounds of torque, according to Porsche. Its apical velocity is up to 162 mph, the institution said.

The car that antecedently had the rubric of "most almighty road-legal Porsche" was the Taycan Turbo GT astatine 1,019 horsepower.

To execute the vehicle's highest performance, Porsche said a motorboat mode needs to beryllium activated. In mean driving mode, the conveyance features up to 844 horsepower.

A top-end "Turbo Electric" exemplary starts astatine $163,000 — making it among the astir costly Porsches connected sale. A modular exemplary with little show — 402 horsepower and 615 foot-pounds of torque — starts astatine $109,000.

The Cayenne Electric features a 113 kilowatt-hour artillery and 800-volt electrical architecture strategy that's susceptible of charging from 10% to 80% successful little than 16 minutes, Porsche said. The caller EV besides is the archetypal Porsche to person the enactment for inductive, oregon wireless, charging, but it comes astatine a overmuch slower gait than accepted plug-in charging.

Porsche said ordering for the Cayenne Electric is open, with deliveries expected to statesman astatine the extremity of summertime adjacent year.

The all-electric SUV motorboat comes 2 months aft Porsche confirmed it was pulling backmost its antecedently announced EV plans to alternatively proceed to connection vehicles with interior combustion engines, including hybrids.

"We person acceptable the last steps successful the realignment of our merchandise strategy," Porsche CEO Oliver Blume said successful a September release. "We are presently experiencing monolithic changes wrong the automotive environment. That's wherefore we're realigning Porsche crossed the board."

The EV marketplace successful the U.S. — a important portion for automakers — has faced daunting changes successful regulations nether the Trump medication this year, including the extremity of user credits of up to $7,500 for the acquisition of an EV.

The Cayenne EV volition beryllium offered alongside a combustion-engine exemplary arsenic good arsenic a plug-in hybrid electrical version, according to Porsche.

The Cayenne is Porsche's 3rd EV for the U.S. marketplace pursuing the Taycan successful 2019 and Macan successful 2024.