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Porsche was noticed testing a brand new all-electric SUV on Tuesday morning, with a number of spies arriving to supply us early samples of a brand new mannequin apparently meant to suit above the Macan EV. How excessive up it’s is a matter of some debate, with our spies and different retailers suggesting it's the brand new three-row Porsche K1 – however from the appears to be like of it, we're inclined to imagine it's an electrified two-row Is. Cayenne EV, is that you just?
The EV half is very similar to a lock; We’ve eyewitness accounts from our spies confirming the silence of the prototype. Plus, one have a look at the nostril will let you know every little thing it is advisable know. If this automobile has an inside combustion engine, it might actually maintain its breath. As for which EV is hiding underneath the camo, nicely, that is the place issues get just a little bizarre. Our suspicions principally stem from the seen area behind the again door – or extra precisely, the shortage thereof.
Under is a side-by-side comparability of the present 2024 Porsche Cayenne prototypes. Check out the place the door meets the rear wheel arch. If this have been a three-row SUV, we'd count on that time to be additional away (or not meet the 2 in any respect, if that's a major stretch). If there's a 3rd row hidden within the again, as West Coast editor James Ryswick summarized, people would in all probability be sad residing in it.
Additionally word the shut consideration Porsche paid to the rear window camo on this prototype. The “chrome” round that a part of the greenhouse was deliberately added, and clearly there’s something else totally occurring beneath that vinyl. From this vantage level, we will see much less of the wagon profile and extra of the Cayenne's stubby rear finish, particularly after we see how a lot of the definition in its rear profile comes from the black aero cladding contrasting with the Cayenne's paint end. Its rear spoiler. The black camo integrates nicely with it.
We don't know a lot concerning the Cayenne EV aside from the truth that Porsche says it's coming (as confirmed in the identical story linked above through which Porsche acknowledged the K1). Like its smaller four-door cousin, the Panamera, its all-electric and hybrid variants will doubtless co-exist underneath the identical nameplate for a while; From this level ahead, don't count on any extra Taycans or K1s until Porsche is increasing into an area certainly one of its present automobiles doesn't already serve.