The Porsche Mission E is an all-electric concept vehicle that the automaker greenlighted for production in late 2015. It should make it to market by 2020.
Porsche is following its sister brand, Audi, in advertising electric vehicles through movie product placements. The Mission E electric car is going to be featured in the new Playmobil movie.
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We’ve all been waiting for faster charging, because until now, Tesla’s been at the top of the heap with its ~120kW Superchargers which have pretty much plateaued since their debut 5 years ago. Porsche of course has been touting its 800V 350kW charging system for its Taycan and Mission E prototypes…
After announcing that the Mission E, Porsche’s first all-electric vehicle, is becoming the Taycan when going into production, the German automaker has now released the first teaser images of the upcoming all-electric sedan.
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Porsche’s first all-electric vehicle has been known so far as the Mission E, but the company made the announcement today that the production version of the vehicle will be called the ‘Taycan’.
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Porsche is still gradually marketing its Mission E electric vehicle a full year ahead of going into production.
Stefan Weckbach, Head of the BEV Model Series at Porsche, has now taken a few people to get test drives in the Mission E Cross Turismo in California and commented on the German automaker’s plans.
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It looks like Porsche is slowly ramping up the marketing of the Mission E, its first all-electric vehicle.
After giving a test drive to pro-driver Mark Webber last week, the company has now let singer and Porsche enthusiast Adam Levine behind the wheel.
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There are not many people who had the chance to drive the Mission E, Porsche’s first all-electric vehicle, but pro-driver Mark Webber is one of them and he gave his impressions after a day at the track with one of the latest prototypes.
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Despite its small size, Norway is becoming an important market for electric vehicles. Many automakers are trying to lock in demand for their upcoming electric cars early.
Porsche is the latest to do it with the Mission E – a full year ahead of its launch.
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Porsche’s North America Chief has confirmed that the German automaker is planning to deploy a network of 500 electric vehicle charging stations in North America just in time for the Mission E next year.
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Porsche is trying to make the Mission E, its first all-electric vehicle, a track-ready performance car competitive with its gas-powered cars.
As part of the German automaker’s development program, a Mission E test mule was spotted on the Nürburgring race track.
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Everything points to Porsche positioning the Mission E, its first all-electric, to compete against Tesla’s Model S, but now CEO Oliver Blume claims that it is not the case.
The executive said that ‘Tesla is not a benchmark for us’ even though Porsche was spotted benchmarking the Mission E against the Model S just a few months ago.
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For the past two years, Porsche has only been officially showing the same white Mission E prototype originally unveiled in 2015, but other camouflaged prototypes have been spotted.
Now the company released the first official images of those new prototypes and we even get a glimpse of the front trunk.
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Much like BMW with the new i3 a few months ago, Porsche has released a new augmented reality mobile app to take a closer look at its upcoming first all-electric vehicle: the Mission E.
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We know that for a while now Porsche has been benchmarking its upcoming first all-electric vehicle, the Mission E, against Tesla’s Model S.
While the latter’s current version seems to already beat many announced performance specs of the former, we have always believed that track performance and long high power outputs could be areas of focus to improve on for Porsche in this new electric car.
Now the company has confirmed it and took a swipe at Tesla in the process.
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Despite the fact that Porsche still doesn’t have an all-electric vehicle on the market, the German automaker made it clear that they are all-in on the electrification of their lineup.
Now, they are working hard to sell this electric transformation to their motorhead fans ahead of the release of their first all-electric car.
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With all the excitement around the Mission E, Porsche’s first all-electric vehicle, the German automaker announced that it is doubling its electric vehicle investment to ‘more than six billion euro’ in order to release variants based on the vehicle.
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Porsche is gearing up to produce its first all-electric vehicle, the highly anticipated Mission E, and now an executive gives us rare insight into the German automaker’s progress to bring the vehicle to production.
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Porsche’s first all-electric vehicle, the Mission E, is one of the most anticipated EVs coming by the end of the decade. This is due to the performance automaker’s ambition to make it competitive with gas-powered cars – even on the track.
Today, the German automaker releases more information about the battery and charging technology enabling the upcoming Mission E.
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Details about the Mission E, Porsche’s upcoming first all-electric vehicle, keep trickling down to the public ahead of the official launch in 2019.
Now, a new report suggests that the Porsche Mission E will start at about ~$75,000 with three performance trims.
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Porsche has yet to launch its first all-electric vehicle, the Mission E, but it is already warming up to electric vehicles after seeing demand switching to the hybrid versions of its cars.
Now, they say that they are even working on all-electric ‘derivatives of the Mission E’.
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Volkswagen has openly said before that they see Tesla has their main competitor in the transition to electric vehicles and now a Porsche executive adds that they respect the company, especially since they are apparently stealing some customers away.
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We are getting a few interesting glimpses into the development program of Porsche’s first all-electric vehicle, the Mission E, lately.
Now we get to see the car speeding around the Nürburgring race track.
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In case you had doubts about the existence of Porsche’s promised 800-volt ultra-fast charging system for the Mission E, the German automaker’s upcoming first all-electric vehicle, the company showcased the development electric car used to test the technology.
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We often poke fun at the media for calling every new electric car a ‘Tesla killer’ and while we certainly wouldn’t call Porsche’s upcoming Mission E a ‘Tesla killer’, the German premium automaker is undoubtedly going after Tesla with the vehicle.
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