Central Porsche Develops Racing Version Highway Car

Porsche 918 Spyder. (Doc. Porsche)

JAKARTA - The latest news comes from Zuffenhausen, Germany, to be precise at one of the leading automotive manufacturers, Porsche, which is developing new battery cells for the next hypercar line.

According to Michael Steiner, as the Porsche Head of Research and Development, this technology will take several years to be ready to be implanted into one of Porsche's upcoming models.

"We are developing our own (next-generation batteries) cells. With our subsidiary, Cellforce Group, we have samples in the same size cells we use for Taycan. So this is not research, this is real," Steiner said as quoted by Motor Trend, Wednesday, April 5.

His party hopes to immediately find out the ability of battery cells in production vehicles for the next two years. Furthermore, Porsche will develop further technology to be ready to incorporate them into existing models.

Michael Steiner also added, with the development of the battery, the hypercar will not only have a highway car standard. Instead, it will be close to the same as a racing car.

"So I thought about it (a hypercar car), we thought about it, but we needed some additional improvements in terms of technology and a reasonable point of view," Steiner added.

Although Porsche had previously said it would soon prepare a successor to 918 Spyder for 2025, Steiner said that it had not yet started developing its car.

Thus, apart from developing batteries, development is needed in a long time from two to three more years. What's more, if the car will be prepared for production.

Although it will be powered by batteries, it is still uncertain whether the car will be fully electric, or add a combustion engine by making it a hybrid like the predecessor prototype race car, Porsche 919 and now Porsche 963.