Loading ...Porsche plans to produce a hybrid Cayenne
WEISSACH, Germany: Nobody is ever going to mistake a Porsche for a Prius. But the sports car maker is hoping to blur the line between its gas-guzzling, carbon-spewing speedsters and the environmentally conscious hybrids produced by Toyota.
Porsche plans to produce the Cayenne, its sport utility vehicle, with a hybrid gasoline-and-electric engine by the end of this decade. And this week, in a rare burst of show-and-tell for a normally private company, it offered journalists a peek of its hybrid technology.
Porsche’s engine, developed jointly with Audi and Volkswagen, would reduce the fuel consumption of the Cayenne by as much as 23 percent over a conventional model, with a goal of 8.9 liters per 100 kilometers, the company said.
That level of consumption would be equal to about 26 miles per gallon. The Cayenne now gets the equivalent of 14 miles per gallon in the city and 20 miles per gallon on highways.
It would also emit at least 20 percent less carbon-dioxide into the atmosphere than a gas-powered Cayenne, though, as an SUV with a V6 engine that growls like a Porsche, the Cayenne hybrid would still emit more carbon-dioxide than an average European car, let alone a Prius.
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