Porsche Delivers Preliminary Mileage for Cayenne Hybrid

Porsche unveiled more information about its upcoming Cayenne Hybrid SUV. The gas-electric hybrid will debut next year with a supercharged V-6 engine borrowed from Audi that pumps out 333 hp, combined with a 52-hp electric motor. The company says its 0-62 mph time is 6.8 seconds, which is roughly the same as the V-8 Cayenne S.

The bigger news is that the company says it will return combined mileage of 9 liters per 100 km, which by rough conversion is around 26 mpg. Porsche won’t, however, commit to a U.S. EPA figure. The Cayenne S gets 15 mpg, and a four-cylinder Honda Accord gets 25 mpg combined.

We’ll have to wait until next year for final mileage figures, but anything that sounds this fast with mileage this good can’t be a bad thing. Of course we’d expect the sticker to be much higher than the $59,400 price tag on the Cayenne S. 

Comments

Comparing the EPA figures to other nation's current Cayenne models, expect the EPA figure to be about 30% less. It'll probably be somewhere around 18 or 19 mpg, putting it just below the Escalade Hybrid.

What's the point of throwing in the comparison to the Honda Accord? If you're trying to say the Cayenne Hybrid may come close to the fuel efficiency of a 4-cyl Accord, you're way off.

FE,
That's actually what Porsche said, but they didn't pick a specific model. The Accord is middle of the pack in 4 cylinder efficiency in its segment.

I do agree if the numbers are 20 mpg like the GMs it will not be noteworthy.