The 2026 Porsche Cayenne Electric will be released fully and officially online for the first time on Thursday November 20th at 1:00am AEDT.
The electric SUV will then make its public debut at the Icons of Porsche Festival in Dubai on November 22nd and will be launched in Australia around mid-2026.
Unlike Porsche’s first electric SUV – the smaller Macan Electric – the Cayenne Electric will be sold alongside the existing third-generation combustion engine Cayenne, although the German brand is also developing a delayed replacement for the discontinued petrol-powered Macan.
The reveal timing for the fourth generation of Porsche’s first and largest SUV, first launched in 2002, was confirmed this week in the latest installment of a drip-feed reveal campaign that also highlighted the technology transfer between Porsche’s Formula E efforts and the new Cayenne Electric.
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In what is described as a continuing presentation of the lessons learned from the Formula E circuit, where Porsche currently holds both the team and manufacturer world championships, much of the Cayenne Electric’s hardware and software is derived directly from the Porsche 99X race car, including its engine cooling and energy recovery systems.
Porsche head of research and development Dr. Michael Steiner: “Formula E is our development laboratory for the electromobility of tomorrow… The new Cayenne Electric shows how quickly technology can be transferred from racing to the road.”
A key innovation is direct oil cooling of the electric motor – a system introduced by Porsche in its Formula E program.
Instead of cooling the stator from the outside, the oil flows directly along the copper windings and dissipates the heat where it is generated. The result should be sustainable peak performance and an efficiency of up to 98 percent with a more compact engine package.
Like the 99X racing car, the Cayenne Electric can recover up to 600 kW of energy when braking, according to Porsche, and around 97 percent of all braking maneuvers in everyday traffic are handled entirely by the electrical system, so the physical brakes often remain untouched.
Porsche says Formula E’s new Pit Boost system – where a 30-second stop delivers a 10 percent battery charge at 600 kW – also inspired the Cayenne’s charging setup. The production SUV supports DC fast charging of up to 400kW (more than any public charger currently available in Australia), charging the battery by 10-80 percent in under 16 minutes, providing a range of more than 300km in 10 minutes.
Based on the 800-volt Porsche Premium Electric (PPE) architecture, also used for the smaller Porsche Macan Electric launching in 2024, the fourth-generation Cayenne’s battery can be charged wirelessly at speeds of up to 11kW via an inductive floor panel charger called Porsche Wireless Charging (PWC), which has yet to be confirmed for Australia.
In its latest release, Porsche claims that the Cayenne Electric will set new standards in the SUV sector in terms of both performance and charging capability, as well as comfort and digital connectivity.
In its last announcement at the end of October, Porsche confirmed that the Cayenne EV will feature a huge 113kWh lithium-ion battery with wireless (inductive) charging and a range of more than 563km, after revealing the SUV’s radical new interior in September and in July a camouflaged prototype set a British distance record at the Shelsley Walsh hill climb, where the exterior design was largely revealed.
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