The luxury car maker unveiled its first electric SUV on the Salvadoran market.
The German luxury car manufacturer, Porsche, accelerated the pace of the electromobility of the Salvadoran market with the introduction of two new models: the Macan SUV and the sports Taycan II.
Porsche launched the Taycan in the Salvadoran market in January 2022, in the versions Base, 4S, Turbo and Turbo S. The second generation of this sportsman increases the range of the battery, which will now be more than 600 kilometers, enough to turn around El Salvador by 34.
José Roberto Renderos, director of Porsche El Salvador, detailed that the base version goes from an autonomy from 503 to 678 kilometers, while the turbo increases from 467 to 630 kilometers.
In addition, Porsche presented the Macan electric compact SUV, its best-selling model since its worldwide launch on the market in 2014. This vehicle promises an acceleration of seven seconds while the battery autonomy is up to 265 kilometers.
The turbo version is a beast to the management, Renderos said, with an acceleration of 5.2 seconds and an autonomy of 270 kilometers.
The electric Macan reaches a speed of 220 kilometers per hour (km/h), while the turbo has 260 km/h.
Renderos detailed that Macan is the driveway vehicle for Porsche customers and then fall in love with the brand.
In the combustible version is a well accessible car, walking for $75,000, and there are a lot of vans in that segment. We believe that right now, being an electrician, with all the technology it brings and the improvements, is not so out of range, the executive said.
In electric models, the Macan is based on a price of $105,000, while the Taycan starts from $130,000, values that vary from the reconfiguration of customers.
As part of its Destination Charging program, Porsche announced in January 2024 that it would install five electroliners in different points of El Salvador, with an investment of $8,000 and $10,000 for each recharge station.
Porsche is one of the five luxury brands in the Salvadoran market, with 744 units registered with the Vice-Ministry of Transport, according to the National Road Safety Observatory.
Of the more than 1.8 million units that make up the vehicle park (between cars and motorcycles), electric vehicles represent only 0.02 %.
This article has been translated after first appearing in Diario El Mundo