- Porsche has been noticed testing an electrical 718 Cayman
- Anticipated to debut in late 2026, it can path an electrical 718 Boxster by a few 12 months
- The gas-powered 718 Boxster and Cayman finish manufacturing in 2025
Porsche followers will quickly should get used to the thought of an electrical sports activities automotive from the model.
Porsche is near launching its first electrical sports activities automotive, however moderately than begin with the long-lasting 911, Porsche will initially add battery energy to the 718 Boxster and Cayman. A prototype for the electrical Cayman has now been noticed for the primary time.
Prototypes for the electrical Boxster have been noticed for greater than a 12 months, suggesting that it will likely be the primary to reach. A debut later this 12 months is predicted, which might possible consequence within the electrical Cayman arriving someday in 2026.
Porsche engineers have tried to disguise the electrical Cayman prototype by adopting the aspect window design of the 911, however the remainder of the automotive shares design particulars with the electrical Boxster prototype. The design was first previewed by the Porsche Mission R idea unveiled throughout the 2021 Munich auto present. The idea’s reveal additionally signaled Porsche’s intention to develop an electrical sports activities automotive for racing, the {hardware} for which Porsche is testing in a separate prototype generally known as the 718 Cayman GT4 ePerformance.
Porsche Mission R idea
Each the highway automotive and any prototype are anticipated to eschew the modular skateboard-style platform widespread to most EVs, and as an alternative go together with a devoted design with the batteries in a T-shape part filling the middle tunnel and the realm behind the seats. Such a structure allows designers to maintain the peak of the automotive low whereas delivering weight distribution just like a mid-engine automotive. Maserati did the identical for the GranTurismo Folgore.
The electrical Cayman is predicted to supply the selection of rear- or all-wheel drive. The Mission R idea had a dual-motor all-wheel-drive system delivering 670 hp in a race mode and a brief 1,073 hp in a mode designed for transient qualifying runs. The idea additionally featured a single-speed transmission that, relying on the gear ratio fitted, allowed for a prime pace of greater than 186 mph.
Porsche Mission R improvement
Even at that decrease restrict of efficiency, the electrical 718 Cayman would possibly begin to step on the toes of the 911, particularly if Porsche achieves something near a rumored 3,650-pound most curb weight. To distinguish the 2 vehicles, the 911 will retain a fuel engine for so long as rules enable, helped together with the adoption of hybrid expertise, as we have already seen within the 2025 911 Carrera GTS vary.
It is too early to speak vary, however the Mission R idea had an 80-kwh battery estimated to ship round 250 miles of vary.
2026 Porsche 718 Boxster EV spy photographs – Picture credit score: Baldauf
Followers of the present gas-powered 718 Boxster and Cayman might want to hurry up and buy one, as Porsche in mid-2024 mentioned each vehicles would stop manufacturing in 2025, with the rumored date to be someday in October.
Nonetheless, with the latest slowdown in EV progress skilled throughout the trade, however notably within the premium sector, Porsche now plans to maintain promoting gas-powered variations of different fashions so much longer than beforehand deliberate. A lot of the fuel fashions had been scheduled to bow out by the top of this decade. Within the case of the top-selling Macan, Porsche is rumored to be contemplating the event of a new fuel model the place beforehand none was deliberate. It is attainable the automaker may additionally do that with the 718 Boxster and Cayman sooner or later.