Porsche keeps developing its first all-electric car co-designed with Audi on Premium Platform Electric (PPE). Provisionally called the Macan EV, it may be released under a different name.
In the meantime, the company has begun to reveal some of the details regarding the car. For one, its traction battery s designed to have 100 kilowatt-hours of nominal capacity, out of which 96-98 kWh will be actually used by the car, leaving only a couple percent reserved for emergencies. For example, the Taycan EV comes with batteries rated at 79.2 and 93.4 kilowatt-hours, but neither delivers even 90% of that capacity to the motors.
The data collected from the use of the Taycan by numerous owners has enabled Porsche to improve useful battery capacity drastically. The company believes the size chosen (100 kWh) to be perfect from the weight-to-range ratio standpoint.
As such, it if official that the Macan EV will only get one battery size. For powertrains, there will be several options that remain to be unveiled.
Charging the battery from 5 to 80 percent will take around 25 minutes, which is two and a half minutes longer than the range-topping Taycan takes but still fast. The Macan EV consumes 14 kWh more than the Taycan while charging and boasts improved cooling on all motors and power cell packs. The power electronics on board has also been optimized thanks to the data gathered thus far.
Like the Taycan, the Macan EV will come equipped with hydraulic brakes and a regenerative braking system, with the latter taking priority in most scenarios.