Porsche has released technical details of its upcoming full-electric Macan, saying the 600-hp compact crossover will be the “sportiest model in its segment.”
Based on WLTP tests, the Macan’s 100-kilowatt-hour battery pack should deliver more than 483 km (300 miles) of driving range. The battery consists of 12 modules with prismatic cells that contain an 8:1:1 ratio of nickel, cobalt, and manganese.
Like Porsche’s Taycan electric fastback, the Macan will use 800-volt technology, which can recharge the crossover’s battery from 5 percent to 80 percent in about 25 minutes.
Porsche said the Macan’s two electric motors deliver precise all-wheel control and on-demand torque distribution between the front and rear axles.
The dual-motor electric Macan will be the first Porsche model to be launched on Volkswagen Group’s Premium Platform Electric, or PPE, architecture. Audi will use the platform for its Q6 e-tron, which is expected to go on sale about six months later than the electric Macan.
Software supplier-related issues have delayed the crossover by about a year. Production will begin at a plant in Leipzig, Germany, where the current model is built, in early fall 2023, analysts say.
The Macan EV — the sports car maker’s second all-electric model, after the Taycan — is critical to Porsche’s aims to generate more than 80 percent of new-vehicle sales globally from EVs by 2030.
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