Porsche Says It Won’t Make An Electric Supercar Because Nobody Wants It

After presenting the Mission S concept model, which will soon return Porsche to a centrally located engine super sports car, Porsche confirmed in Stuttgart that there is no scenario in which the Mission S would be powered solely by electric motors.

The reason Porsche decided the production edition of the Mission S two-seater supercar will be powered by a mid-mounted petrol engine, likely assisted by some of its existing hybrid systems, is simple: “We’re not going to make an electric supercar that no one wants.”

With still open arms towards full electrification, the management of the famous German car company meanwhile drew a line beyond which they will not make models driven by electric motors only, and in the company of the immortal “Elfer” (whose sales are better than ever), which will never run out of petrol engines, the super sports Mission S will soon arrive, the successor to several legendary Porsche two-seaters that were powered by mid-mounted engines, including the wonderfully naturally aspirated 5.7-liter V10 behind the Carrera GT seatbacks.

Potential buyers who have accepted the “green” transition of drive solutions, which is primarily insisted on in the countries of the European Union, can look for their electric Porsche among the models Taycan, Macan, Cayenne, and soon also the new Boxster/Cayman generation, but a large percentage of buyers who do not want to give up the drive without petrol engines will be able to count on models that will always be powered by petrol engines with more or less (plug-in) hybrid support.

The law of supply and demand has no mercy, which they felt at Porsche as well, because sales of most of their electric models are far below expectations. There is all the more reason that they don’t think about returning to the scene of super sports cars with a model powered only by electric motors, because the scene showed that “image without sound” doesn’t make much sense, which was also experienced by the company Rimac, whose electric Nevera was sold in much fewer copies than planned.

While well-to-do enthusiasts are waiting for Porsche to reveal the technical specifications of its new super sports model, which will continue where the numerically limited hybrid 918 Spyder left off, the idea of ​​a super sports model powered only by electric motors was also rejected by Lamborghini, and the complete disinterest of customers towards electric super sports cars was also discovered by Pagani, where they gave up on the electric edition on the theme of the Utopia model.

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