There was a time when ordering a Porsche was fairly straightforward. You chose an engine, a transmission, a color, perhaps agonized over the wheels for a few evenings, and eventually signed the check. Those days are apparently gone.
With the latest Cayenne Electric, Porsche has taken the configurator—the company’s wonderfully dangerous electronic device for turning reasonable people into option-sheet obsessives—and expanded it again. For the new model year, the electric Cayenne and Cayenne Coupé gain more personalization choices, Paint to Sample colors, electrically operated doors, wireless home charging and even a massage system that seems determined to turn the front seats into something approaching a private spa.
In other words, the electric Cayenne is becoming both more electric and more Cayenne.
Doors That Do the Work
The most conspicuous new bit of convenience is a set of electrically operated doors, available as an option for the first time. Give a door handle a brief pull and servo motors take over, swinging the door open or closed without requiring much further participation from the person involved. The doors can be operated from inside or outside the Cayenne, using cabin switches, the exterior handles, the PCM Flow Display or Porsche Digital Key.
There are a couple of particularly clever touches. The driver’s door can close automatically when you fasten your seat belt or press the brake pedal, which should make climbing aboard feel just slightly more like entering a private aircraft.
Fortunately, Porsche hasn’t forgotten that doors occasionally encounter things such as garage walls, shopping carts and other human beings. Sensors continuously watch the area around each door and stop its movement if an obstacle is detected. Working with the Cayenne’s exit-warning system, the doors can also be prevented from opening into approaching traffic.
And should civilization suddenly fail—or you simply feel nostalgic—you can still operate them manually.
Charging Without the Cord
Perhaps the more consequential development is Porsche Wireless Charging. Instead of arriving home, opening the charging port and wrestling with a cable, the driver simply parks the Cayenne Electric over a permanently installed charging pad. Once properly positioned, charging begins automatically.
The system consists of preparation hardware in the vehicle, a vehicle-mounted pad and a weatherproof ground pad installed in the parking space. Power is transferred inductively at up to 11 kW, with Porsche claiming roughly 90-percent efficiency.
Naturally, there are safeguards. Motion sensors and foreign-object detection monitor the charging area, and the system shuts down if a person or animal gets too close or if a metallic object lands on the pad and begins heating up. The hardware is initially available in Germany and other European markets, with Porsche planning a staged worldwide rollout.
It is one of those technologies that initially sounds like a solution to a problem nobody had—until you’ve spent a rainy evening coiling a muddy charging cable and putting it back in the trunk.
The Seat Is Now Part of the Stereo
The Cayenne Electric’s new massage system goes considerably beyond the traditional collection of inflatable cushions poking gently at your spine. Porsche calls it a massage function with 4D audio. Both front seats contain 16 air cushions along with six sound actuators embedded in the backrests and seat cushions. Five massage programs are available, with selectable vibration and intensity levels.
The interesting part is that the vibrations can work with the audio system, allowing the occupants to physically feel elements of the music through the seats. Massage programs and intensity are controlled through the central display, while the 4D audio function can also operate independently. Porsche has additionally incorporated the system into its Mood Modes, including three Wellness settings that combine pneumatic massage, seat vibration and specially selected soundscapes.
Whether this represents the ultimate evolution of the automobile seat or simply proof that engineers should never be left alone with sufficient computing power is probably a matter of personal taste.
One Hundred and Five Ways to Choose a Color
Personal taste, conveniently enough, is another area where Porsche has been busy. The Cayenne Electric now joins Porsche Exclusive Manufaktur‘s Paint to Sample program. Added to the 13 regular colors grouped under the rather evocative headings Contrasts, Shades, Dreams and Legends, the expanded palette brings the total number of available exterior colors to 105.
This is excellent news for anyone who has ever looked at a row of nearly identical gray SUVs and wondered whether Western civilization couldn’t manage something slightly more cheerful. It is potentially less encouraging for anyone who has difficulty choosing between two shades of blue.
More Ways to Furnish the Cabin
The interior receives its share of customization as well. Porsche already offers an Interior Style Package across the Cayenne Electric range, developed by Style Porsche and Exclusive Manufaktur. The package creates a two-tone cabin built around black and distinctive green accents.
For the new model year, an Extended Package Interior Style adds more leather trim and decorative stitching in Delgada Green. Buyers can go further still, specifying leather and Race-Tex trim for the front and rear seat consoles, along with Race-Tex-covered interior sill panels and contrasting decorative stitching.
None of this fundamentally changes what the Cayenne Electric is. It remains Porsche’s interpretation of what happens when a large luxury SUV, a considerable quantity of electricity and several decades of sports-car engineering are put in the same room.
But the new options do reveal something about where Porsche sees the modern luxury automobile heading. Electrification may have changed the machinery underneath, but it hasn’t diminished the appetite for personalization—or the peculiar pleasure of ordering a car exactly the way you want it.
And now, apparently, the car will even close the door behind you.
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