For car fans, and lovers of a true analog experience when driving a car, it seems time is running out — the electric revolution is coming soon.
Sure, sales of EVs are around 2.7% of total car sales here in the U.S,, but we all see the writing on the wall, from Detroit to Düsseldorf: the gas-powered car is dying.
At the IAA Mobility Conference in Munich this week, automakers debuted a slew of new electrified cars coming out in the not too distant future. Porsche (POAHY) was one of them.
The legendary sports car company was quick to embrace the electric future with the Taycan electric sedan back in 2019, and at Munich the company debuted the Porsche Mission R concept, a vision of what all-electric sports car racing could look like (and also what a future Porsche electric sports car may look like.)
But before that future arrives, we are still living in the present, and luckily for us the Porsche 911 Carrera S exists. And Porsche here is still doing something that is becoming rarer and rarer these days, and that is including a true, 7-speed manual transmission.
Porsche knows fans of the car will always want a gas-powered engine, and manual transmission if they can help it. But legislation abroad, and likely here soon in the U.S., could change that availability.
Porsche hears its fans, and the environmentalists too. It is spearheading eFuel investments, which are made out of CO2 and hydrogen, and are produced using renewable energy. eFuel burns cleaner and is essentially carbon neutral. This past week, Porsche and Siemens Energy joined forces to build a facility in Chile for the production of eFuel, and Porsche will be using eFuel produced there for their Supercup 911 race cars.
eFuels are interesting technology, but what about an electrified 911 — is that the future too?
“Within the foreseeable future, you will see a lot of progress in powertrain technology, and I would say we’ll keep you posted whenever we do the next step, probably into hybridization,” Kjell Gruner, Porsche Cars NA CEO and president, says in an interview with Yahoo Finance.
“But let’s see what that’s going to be [like],” Gruner added. “It’s really open what we’re going to do there, one thing is for sure, we’ll always have an engine in the rear, it’s always going to remain a 911, and for the time being e-fuels is going to be a great alternative.”
So let’s dig into what may be on of the last great internal combustion cars out there today, the Porsche 911.
New 911 design — can you spot any differences?
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