Porsche fully backtrack on EV Cayman/Boxster replacement

[MiamiBlue]

Porsche have finally fully back tracked and the new Cayman/Boxsters will have ICE engines throughout the range.

What blows my mind reading the article is how they're having to reverse engineer a car that was designed from the ground up to be an EV vehicle to fit an engine and transmission. £6.65 Billion wasted in development over 6 years. The final result is probably going to be a botch up mess.
Can you really blame Porsche? Or is it the European governments who are at fault for setting deadlines that were never going to be met?

The next Porsche Boxster and Cayman were meant to be EV-only – now they're going petrol too! | Autocar

Porsche will install petrol power into its previously electric-only new duo

www.autocar.co.uk

 

[BlueFE2]

What a cluster, indeed!

Going to be interesting to see how it shakes out. Early reports state they will only be keeping ICE alive in the RS variants. Which means the price for these will likely be $200k when optioned. And at that price... the competition becomes interesting.

 

[MiamiBlue]

What a cluster, indeed!

Going to be interesting to see how it shakes out. Early reports state they will only be keeping ICE alive in the RS variants. Which means the price for these will likely be $200k when optioned. And at that price... the competition becomes interesting.

Possibly I've misunderstood the article. It's not new news that they were going to keep an ICE engine in the GT/RS models. But I read this to mean there will be ICE in the mainstream models now also.

 

[BlueFE2]

Oh, that would be awesome. The report I saw said it was only in the "top tier" trims, citing RS as an example. Hopefully, that's not the case.

 

[Thirdgen89gta]

Porsche have finally fully back tracked and the new Cayman/Boxsters will have ICE engines throughout the range.

What blows my mind reading the article is how they're having to reverse engineer a car that was designed from the ground up to be an EV vehicle to fit an engine and transmission. £6.65 Billion wasted in development over 6 years. The final result is probably going to be a botch up mess.
Can you really blame Porsche? Or is it the European governments who are at fault for setting deadlines that were never going to be met?

The next Porsche Boxster and Cayman were meant to be EV-only – now they're going petrol too! | Autocar

Porsche will install petrol power into its previously electric-only new duo

www.autocar.co.uk

I do indeed blame Porsche, and any other manufacturer that decided to blow ungodly wads of money on EV only development when their customer base doesn't actually WANT EVs.

I'm okay with them making an EV. But the stupid push to EV only for everything, especially in products like the 718. This is a sports car + Track Day car for many, and EV's do NOT work on track. Nor do they work on winding road trips off the beaten path.

 

[Mistral]

I do indeed blame Porsche, and any other manufacturer that decided to blow ungodly wads of money on EV only development when their customer base doesn't actually WANT EVs.

I'm okay with them making an EV. But the stupid push to EV only for everything, especially in products like the 718. This is a sports car + Track Day car for many, and EV's do NOT work on track. Nor do they work on winding road trips off the beaten path.

Easy to criticise but the European Union gave the manufacturers no choice but to comply and the penalties for not doing so were draconian. Now that the EU has backtracked the manufacturers can again provide cars which the public actually want.

 

[Steve24]

The EU really is a joke.

Never did understand how a bunch of clowns that no one voted for can invent laws that affect countries that they really should have no control over.