Key Highlights – 2025 Porsche Cayenne Electric)
⚡ Wireless Charging: 11 kW inductive pad, ~10% transfer loss
🔋 Battery: 100+ kWh, WLTP range over 373 miles
⚡ Fast Charging: 800-volt PPE, 10–80% in <20 minutes
🚗 Tech: Cameras and screens align car over pad
💎 Luxury SUV: Larger than Macan EV with premium Porsche design
🌍 Launch: Europe first in 2025, global rollout later
The famous German automaker was proud to show off its new wireless charging system at the Munich Auto Show recently. Porsche claims it will be the first kid on the block to offer this elegant way to charge on a production vehicle for its customers.
The new Porsche Cayenne Electric may be one of the most eagerly anticipated SUVs to hit the roads next year. It will be larger than the Macan Electric and offer the very latest technology including the ability to charge your Cayenne Electric easier than ever before.
In the same way that you can charge your smartphone by using a wireless pad, the new Porsche EV will have an optional wireless charging system that is really amazing. You may recall that Tesla has talked about using a wireless charging pad on its Cybercab; a vehicle that doesn’t even have plug-in charging port.
With the Cayenne Electric, owners will simply park over an inductive floor plate with a copper and ferrite transmitter coil that produces alternating current. This magnetic field links to a receiver coil inside the SUV that is positioned low, between the front wheels.
The Cayenne’s internal system converts the alternating current into direct current in order to charge the car’s battery pack. Porsche tells us that the charging pad is tough enough to drive on top of, is very damage resistant and waterproof.
The technicians at Porsche also say the system will automatically stop if its sensors detect any foreign objects near the pad such as pets, toys or tools. The electromagnetic radiation is completely contained beneath the car.
How You Do It
Imagine never having to plug your EV in. Porsche says that 75 percent of its EV owners charge at home and while the Cayenne Electric will still have charging ports, you can have the wireless charging pad installed right in your garage.
Simply drive over the pad and let the vehicle’s cameras and video screens help you navigate directly over the charging pad to lock it in. Onscreen markers will let you know when you are set, and the car will lower itself over the pad in prime position. Turn the car off and it will charge at a peak of eleven kilowatts, compatible to a Level 2 charger.
Porsche says that approximately 10 percent of the energy from the grid will be lost in the transfer. A typical plug-in Level 2 charger minimizes energy loss, so we’ll have to wait and see how wireless charging compares.
Fast Charging
Without the wireless charger, the new Cayenne Electric is extremely efficient, charging by using its 800-volt Premium Platform Electric (PPE) architecture. It is the same system used in the Porsche Macan Electric and the Audi Q6 e-tron.
The Cayenne Electric’s 100-plus kilowatt-hour battery pack can charge from 10 to 80 percent in under 20 minutes using a Level 3 DC Fast Charger. Porsche says the Worldwide Harmonized Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP) global standard predicts range for the new Cayenne to exceed 373 miles.
The Porsche wireless charging system will debut in Europe next year before being rolled out to the rest of the world.
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