Porsche Motorsport has now released the first pictures of the next generation Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 ePerformance all-electric sports racing car prototype.
The smaller brother of the iconic Porsche 992 will now become all-electric from 2025 onwards as Porsche Motorsport is aiming to have an all-electric racing line-up in the future with their Mission R project.
The last year’s concept has now evolved into two fully functional prototypes and Porsche Motorsport will be show it in action for the first time at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in United Kingdom on 23-26 June.
The ePerformance model is fitted with an electric motor and battery pack which have been sourced from last year’s Mission R concept and have a maximum output of 986 horsepower or 735 kilowatts in qualification mode and for the race mode it can deliver 603hp (450kW) and uses 900-volt technology that can charge the battery from 5 to 80 percent in only 15 minutes.
Porsche have carried out some tests run with the prototype car and the laptimes are quite close to the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars. Porsche also plans to do a world tour with two prototypes before the final production will be starting, starting with visits in Europe and North America in 2023 before rounding-up with Asia-Pacific by 2024.
“With the Mission R, we’ve shown how Porsche envisages sustainable customer motor racing in the future. The 718 Cayman GT4 ePerformance now demonstrates that this vision works impressively on the racetrack,” Matthias Scholz, GT racing vehicle project manager, said.
“We’re very excited about the response because a one-make cup with electric racing cars would be an important addition to our existing customer racing programme.”
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