Porsche may be working on a smaller, more affordable Taycan EV: report

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The typical Porsche business model of introducing a vehicle, watching its success, then spawning a smaller vehicle in the same vein to even greater success is well-documented. Witness the Cayenne-to-Macan path, a good example.

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This time, the crew in Stuttgart may be considering the same trick with the all-electric Taycan sedan.

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According to the Brits at Autocar , an entry-level (relatively speaking, anyway) battery-powered sedan one size smaller than the current Taycan may indeed be in the hopper. Nothing’s finalized, and Porsche is saying nein kommentar , but the mechanisms are in place for such a machine to spring forth from the German automaker. After all, the corporate cupboard contains the so-called Premium Platform Electric (PPE) on which the new all-electric Macan crossover will be constructed.

That base for electric cars was developed jointly with corporate cousin Audi. It is suggested the platform will be deployed by a number of EVs from various brands in the VW Group, including Audi, Porsche, and Bentley. Plans call for seven million cars to be sold on the PPE platform over the next decade. Don’t forget the conglomerate also has access to VW’s MEB platform and the Scalable System Platform architecture.

Our own Brian Harper sampled the Taycan 4S earlier this year, calling it a pricey but “bloody quick” foil to similar cars in the Tesla catalogue. If Porsche decides to craft a smaller variant – think the size of a Tesla Model 3 or BMW i4 – you gotta think it’ll produce similar results. After all, it’s spent a lifetime associating its brand with speed and performance.