STUTTGART — Porsche expects to construct as many models of its full-electric Macan compact SUV because the combustion engine model.

“We produce greater than 80,000 models per yr of the present technology. In the long run, we additionally plan to supply the all-electric Macan on this scale,” manufacturing boss Albrecht Reimold informed Automotive Information Europe sister publication Automobilwoche.

The total-electric Macan is scheduled to enter manufacturing earlier than the tip of subsequent yr at Porsche’s manufacturing facility in in Leipzig, Germany, the place the present mannequin is constructed.

Sources have stated that the electrical Macan and its PPE platform sister mannequin, the Audi Q6 e-tron, threat being delayed as a result of mother or father Volkswagen Group is is behind in creating superior new software program.

The Macan would be the sports activities automobile maker’s second all-electric mannequin after the Taycan coupe.

Within the first half, the Macan was Porsche’s second best-selling mannequin with 38,039 deliveries. The Cayenne SUV was the topseller with a worldwide gross sales tally of 41,947. The Taycan’s first-half gross sales have been 18,877 prospects after manufacturing of the electrical couple was hit by supply-chain bottlenecks.

Reimold stated Porsche will construct the electrical Macan and the combustion engine model in parallel for about two years.