It's Official: The Porsche Mission E-Cross Is Going Into Production
The Porsche Mission E-Cross - perhaps the biggest surprise of the 2018 Geneva Motor Show - is officially going into production.
This was always looking likely, but Porsche today announced that the car was greenlit at a Supervisory Board meeting on 18 October.
The manufacture of the car will create 300 jobs at Porsche’s Zuffenhausen home. 1200 new roles are already due to be generated at the plant by the Taycan, the company’s first fully-electric vehicle from which the E-Cross is derived.
Porsche hasn’t yet said what the showroom-ready version of the car will be called, but the concept gives us a good idea of how fast it’ll be in top spec. It produces the equivalent of 590bhp from its battery and a pair of permanent-magnet electric motors, making 0-62mph possible in under 3.5 seconds. There’s a potential range of up to 310 miles according to NEDC figures, while a 15-minute charge using a 150kW charger gives drivers around 240 miles of juice.
The concept has plenty of details which will no doubt be removed or toned down (the show car had a drone installed in the boot, for Pete’s sake), but it has been described by Porsche as ‘road ready’ and was even road-tested by a few outlets earlier this year.
The Taycan will go into production in 2019, and we’d expect the E-Cross to follow in 2020.
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No pictures of the spyshots?
I love how they slapped fake exhausts on it to make sure nobody thinks thats its an electric car
Wait why it has exhaust pipes? Isn’t it electric?
Would have to license them first, which we won’t be doing
I like how they use an almost chrome wrap and it conceals the car better than most spy shots taken.
Looks a bit like a mix of the Panamera and the Cayenne IMO
Great, so now we reached the point where a Porsche Panamera is being marketed as a crossover just because it has black plastic trim all around it.
Mercedes-Benz called the GLA an SUV, but Jason (Engeneering Explained) compared it to a Subaru WRX hatchback, where the measurement are pretty similar.
In other words: it’s just a marketing instrument, because nowadays SUVs and crossovers seem to sell better than hatchbacks
Well technically they didn’t call it a SUV. It’s kinda like the Audi A6 Allroad
Rimac is responsible for many parts in the Taycan, so I guess the E-Cross aswell?
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Amazing, as, Porsche is the only VW group’s best brand and only carline I would purchase from the VW Group. It is beautiful and electric, thus covering it’s e-dust onto Tesla’s super fast but shottyy future roadster. Porsche has sports engineering that compares nothing to what Tesla can claim.
Porsche is pretty much runs VW Group itself, they recently bought a 10% stake at Rimac for their Electric Cars, and soon Porsche will take full control of Bentley, Bugatti and Lamborghini (meaning taking control from Audi)
No.