The Porsche 911 Hybrid Is Almost Here

It’s been rumoured for years, we had our first official confirmation of it in March, and now we know when we’ll get to see the first-ever production hybrid Porsche 911: mark your calendars for 28 May.

It’ll be revealed as part of a wider ‘992.2’ refresh for the current-generation 911, which launched in 2019. Porsche has confirmed that the development of the hybrid is complete, having racked up over five million kilometres of testing mileage. Part of that programme involved, of course, lapping the Nürburgring, where the hybrid 911 managed a time of 7min 16.934sec, which Porsche says is an 8.7 second improvement over the “corresponding version of the predecessor model.”

This wording implies that the as-yet-unnamed electrified 911 might serve to replace at least one of the current 911 models. Given that various rumours have suggested that the car will feature an electric motor driving the front wheels with the flat-six powering the back axle, could the hybrid supersede the current combustion-only Carrera 4?

Besides the addition of the hybrid, expect the 992 range as a whole to get some updates outside and in. These mid-life updates for the 911 tend to begin with the unveiling of the core Carrera models before faster stuff, like the Turbo and GT3, arrives a little later, and we’d bet on much the same pattern being followed here.

We also heard rumours a few months ago that the Carrera models would be phasing out their twin-turbo flat-sixes in favour of a newly developed, naturally-aspirated 3.6-litre unit, but Porsche is keeping schtum on this for now.

The 992.2 is the fourth big product launch this year for Porsche, following on from the third-generation Panamera, electric second-gen Macan and updated Taycan, all of which have already been revealed. With the arrival of a hybrid 911 and the 718 set to go all-electric for its next generation, it means that every single model in Porsche’s range will soon be available in some sort of electrified form. Don’t expect the 911 to go completely EV any time soon, though – Porsche maintains an ambition for it to keep some form of combustion power for as long as regulations allow.