The electric Porsche Mission E concept car at the the Frankfurt Motor Show. The company says new launches and investment in electric will dampen results this year. Reuters / Kai Pfaffenbach
The electric Porsche Mission E concept car at the the Frankfurt Motor Show. The company says new launches and investment in electric will dampen results this year. Reuters / Kai Pfaffenbach

Volkswagen’s Porsche, Audi to develop joint electric car platform to save costs



Porsche and Audi, Volkswagen’s main luxury car divisions, plan to develop a joint platform for electric vehicles that will enable them significantly cut down on costs, German newspapers quoted their chief executives as saying.

“By 2025, we’re facing a low single-digit billion euro sum to develop the architecture,” Audi CEO Rupert Stadler told both the Stuttgarter Zeitung and Stuttgarter Nachrichten.

“If both would act on their own, costs would be 30 per cent higher,” Porsche CEO Oliver Blume said, adding Audi was hiring 550 developers for the project and Porsche 300.

From 2021 onwards, both businesses want to bring several models to the streets based on the joint platform, with Stadler saying that would build two sedan cars in Neckarsulm and two sports utility models at its Ingolstadt base.

Porsche’s Blume said the sportscar maker could build its first model based on the joint architecture in Leipzig, where it is already assembling its Macan sport-utility model. “I currently see good chances for Leipzig,” Blume said.

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