Porsche to Expand Mission E Line as Battery-Car Push Speeds Up
- Brand sees electrified models at one-quarter of volume by 2025
- Marque to be ‘as flexible as possible’ amid technology shift
A Porsche AG Mission E Cross Turismo.
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Porsche pledged to build more variants of its first fully electric sports car, including one based on the recently unveiled Mission E Cross Turismo design, as the Volkswagen AG luxury brand readies for a seismic industry shift to battery-powered models.
Purely electric and hybrid vehicles will account for about a quarter of the division’s global deliveries in 2025, the German manufacturer said Friday at a press briefing. Porsche is set to begin selling the battery-only Mission E sports car in 2019, and it presented the four-door Cross Turismo concept version at the Geneva car show in early March.