Cross Turismo and other Taycan derivatives will follow.
Today was Porsche’s annual conference. It aimed to review the year 2019 and to give a glimpse into the future. The company’s sales rose 10 percent to 280 800 units last year, while the number of employees increased by 2,919, to 34,010. It also produced 274,463 vehicles, which is 3 percent more than it did in 2018. The company will invest around EUR10 billion (about $0.7B) in electrification over the next four-years. Porsche projects that half of its sales by the end of this decade will come from PHEVs or EVs
For the Zuffenhausen peeps, the main priority is to produce a version of the product. Mission E Cross Turismo . The concept was unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show two years ago. It will be called “Taycan Cross Turismo” in the road-going version and is expected to debut officially in late 2020. This timeframe was included in today’s Annual and Sustainability Report 2019 by Porsche AG. It also mentions that the rugged, jacked up wagon will be the first of many Taycan-based derivatives.
The 200-page document briefly mentions the fully-electric variant for the next-generation Macan. According to Lutz Meschke (Deputy Chairman) and member of Executive Board, Porsche states that it will be riding on the Premium Platform Electric platform. A market launch is planned for 2022. Porsche and Audi are currently developing PPE. The former teased a sleek EV that is roughly the same size as the A5 Sportback. PPE can be used for both rear-wheel-drive models that have an electric motor mounted at their backs and AWD cars that have an additional motor at their fronts.
Porsche has invested more than EUR600M ($643M), to expand its Leipzig factory and build a new body shop. It will produce electric cars in addition to models with conventional powertrains. The company will also assemble the axles of the zero-emissions crossover, rather than outsourcing the chassis to an external supplier as it did for the Panamera and Macan.