After long talks since 2020, the Porsche 911 will finally get a hybrid powertrain as Porsche has just teased several images of the car being tested in Dubai as well as the Nurburgring Nordschleife. The Porsche 911 Hybrid will be unveiled on May 28, 2024. The debut of the 911 hybrid will also introduce the 992.2 version of the 911.
Porsche has yet to reveal any technical information on the Porsche 911 Hybrid, but the company has revealed its Nurburgring Nordschleife, which is a bit telling of its performance as well as its rank in the 911 hierarchy. Porsche reported that the new Porsche 911 hybrid clocked 7:16.934 which is “8.7 seconds faster than the corresponding version of the predecessor model”.
With a little bit of online investigation, that statement hints that the new Porsche 911 Hybrid’s equivalent is the Porsche 911 Carrera S which clocked 7:25 at the Green Hell back in 2020. Whether the 911 Carrera S is becoming a hybrid or whether it will be replaced with a new hybrid variant has yet to be confirmed.
Back in 2020, Porsche CEO, Oliver Blume confirmed that the 911 will never become a fully electric car. However, back, then, it was Blume mentioned that “In the future for the 911, there are good ideas for a special kind of hybrid, a very performance-oriented hybrid, where we use, for example, a 400-volt system for our electric engine,” He says that “That’s more or less our idea of how to continue with the 911.”
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Currently undergoing its final testing stage, the 911 Hybrid’s performance hybrid powertrain draws much anticipation as there are many guesses on what type of architecture it will adopt. A plug-in hybrid (PHEV) powertrain is most likely as it gives the strongest performance boost compared to other hybrid architectures.
Porsche Model Line 911 and 718 President, Frank Moser said, “For the first time in our icon’s 61-year history, we are installing a hybrid drive system in a roadgoing 911. This innovative performance hybrid makes the 911 even more dynamic.”
“We left nothing to chance during development and tested the new 911 under all sorts of conditions all over the world. From the freezing cold to scorching heat, as was the case during the final stages of testing in Dubai. Whether at a high drivetrain load in the demanding conditions of mountain passes or in the stop-and-go traffic of an urban environment, the new 911 has mastered even the most difficult challenges with aplomb. All in all, our engineers and test drivers clocked up more than five million kilometres of development driving.”
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