All Electric Porsche

It looks like the Electric sports car scene has its first proper big hitter coming into play soon with Porsche announcing its intentions to build an all electric car based on the Boxster. Porsche is still currently doing research and tests on battery systems and electric drive components but President and CEO Michael Macht has said that Porsche will “definitely be offering electric sports cars in the future”. They are taking their time over it because they want the performance and range to be comparable to their existing range before releasing anything.

It is thought that electric Boxster prototypes will be field tested early next year but it will still be a fair while before the new climate change friendly cars get released to the public. Mercedes have also been saying they will be making an electric car so between them and Audi’s E-tron concept it could be very exciting times for electric cars.

At the moment however the only real and accessible electric sporstcar is the brilliant Tesla but sadly I still haven’t ever actually seen one! With climate change being an unstoppable force in making the government crack down on the motorist having alternatives isn’t really a bad thing and I’m sure at some point somebody will make an electric engine that makes fake V8 noises anyway…