Saar: It is expected to launch in September 2018, a couple of months later than the Turbo.

Porsche recently unveiled the “greener” variant of the all-new Cayenne. Officially, it is called the Porsche Cayenne E-Hybrid. This happened on May 2, 2018. On April 30, 2018, we reported that Porsche India has already listed the prices of the Cayenne Turbo on its official website. Now though, that price has been taken away. No problem. We know what it was and you can read about that and a couple of more prices that Porsche revealed here.

Anyway, coming back to the Porsche Cayenne E-Hybrid. The company has confirmed that it will be coming to India as well. When? By end of September 2018. That’s a couple of months after Porsche plans to launch the all-new Cayenne in India. We believe the new Cayenne will begin its innings with the Turbo variant, followed by the E-Hybrid. The standard and the ‘S’ variants will be added at a later stage.

If you did the math, a total of four variants of the all-new Cayenne are listed on Porsche India’s website. That said, the E-Hybrid will be the most special of the lot. Why? Because it will be the first electrified Porsche model to go on sale in India. Price-wise, it is likely to topple the Turbo too but character-wise it will be a lot more acceptable for today’s troubled times.

The Porsche Cayenne E-Hybrid is derived from the standard V6 variant. Bolted to the petrol-fed powerplant is an electric engine, which is 43 per cent more powerful than its predecessor. That said, even the internal combustion engine has more horses at its disposal. Quantitatively speaking, the V6 petrol engine produces 340PS and the electric engine generates 136PS. The total power output is 462PS/700Nm.

The battery pack has also been upgraded to store more juice. The new Porsche Cayenne E-Hybrid comes with a 14.1kWh battery pack, up from 10.8kWh. Give and take, that’s a bump in capacity by 30 per cent. The new pack can be charged within 2.3 hours with Porsche’s recommended ratings for the charger and the electricity feed.

The new Porsche Cayenne E-Hybrid will attract a very different customer for the company. It will be one who likes the poise of Porsche’s precision engineering and cares enough to ditch the Turbo and move around in a relatively more “greener” manner.