Porsche Cayenne Electric to Debut Brand’s Next-Gen Interior

Key Points:

• Porsche’s upcoming Cayenne Electric will feature a digital dashboard with a 14.25-inch digital instrument panel, infotainment touchscreen with AI-powered voice controls and an optional 14.9-inch passenger display.
• The Cayenne Electric’s interior will have numerous customization options, as well as heated door panels and armrests and an optional electrochromic panoramic moonroof.

Porsche has already shown off the upcoming Cayenne Electric’s performance potential by smashing the SUV record at a famous hill-climb race in England and confirmed it will be available with wireless inductive charging for its battery. But now, the German brand is giving us our first look at the electric SUV sans camouflage — well, for its interior, at least.

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Flow State — With Knobs

Dubbed Flow Display, the Cayenne Electric’s digital dashboard features a curved 14.25-inch organic light-emitting diode gauge cluster that bucks current convention by remaining physically separate from the central touchscreen. At a time when the phrase “driver-focused” is being thrown around in reference to increasingly distracting in-car displays, that physical separation seizes the “driver-focused” descriptor with jarring authority.

The infotainment touchscreen and optional 14.9-inch passenger display, however, maintain the status quo. The former boasts AI-powered voice control over functions such as climate, audio, lighting and navigation systems, and the latter is capable of streaming video. A polarized screen keeps the passenger display invisible to the driver while the vehicle is in motion. Drivers can choose from five color schemes for the dash displays, which can be complemented by the adjustable ambient cabin lighting.

“Our goal was to combine quintessential Cayenne characteristics and the newly developed display surfaces with the features of the new ‘Porsche Digital Interaction’ into a harmonious overall package. One that’s innovative, forward-thinking and meticulously thought through down to the finest detail,” said Markus Auerbach, director of interior design at Style Porsche, in a statement. That’s a long way of saying there are physical climate controls and a volume knob at the base of the central display.

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Unprecedented Choice Inside

The Cayenne Electric will also pioneer new degrees of interior customization for Porsche customers, with four available layouts, five different accent packages and 13 available color combinations (including three new colors: Magnesium Grey, Lavender and Sage Grey). Porsche’s Race-Tex synthetic leather will offer buyers an animal-free option. Beyond the wider range of added-cost materials and colors offered by the brand’s Porsche Exclusive Manufaktur portfolio, the Sonderwunsch program allows for nearly infinite personalization of the Cayenne EV.

Porsche will also be reaching new heights of luxury with the electric Cayenne. The front and rear seats will be power-adjustable, and the brand says heated door panels and armrests offer more efficient heating than a traditional warm-air system as well as more even heat distribution. Additionally, the Cayenne EV’s optional panoramic moonroof will be the largest glass roof ever offered by Porsche. The moonroof is electrochromic, with four settings controlling how much light can enter the cabin (clear, 40% and 60% opacity, and matte), and the forward section opens like a regular moonroof.

Whetting Appetites

Now we know that Porsche’s next EV will be the size and shape of a Cayenne, performs like a proper Porsche and coddles like a vehicle from another brand in parent company Volkswagen’s portfolio, Bentley. (Incidentally, the hill-climb record the Cayenne Electric destroyed was previously held by a Bentayga W-12.) We will find out what it looks like — and how it drives — soon. Stay tuned.

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