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Porsche is preparing to bring inductive home charging to market, starting with the new Cayenne Electric. The SUV can be ordered with an underbody receiver mounted between the front wheels that aligns with a flat “one-box” base plate on the garage floor. Rated at 11 kW, the system transfers energy without cables once the vehicle is parked over the plate and the parking brake is engaged. To optimize the gap, roughly four to six inches, the Cayenne automatically lowers its ride height.
Safety and simplicity are built in. The base plate houses all control hardware, so there is no wall box to install. It includes motion detection and foreign object detection and will pause charging if interference is detected. Owners can monitor and schedule charging in the My Porsche app and use a special Surround View display to position the vehicle accurately. Departure timers and cabin preconditioning carry over from Porsche’s AC charging features.
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Porsche Wireless Charging is slated to roll out first in Europe in 2026, with additional markets to follow.
Porsche is also showing a conspicuously camouflaged Cayenne prototype finished in a fluorescent, electroluminescent paint. The multilayer coating, more than 25 ultra-thin layers including conductive primers, electrodes, insulation and the light-emitting material, can illuminate in five colors from blue to violet when alternating voltage is applied. The prototype debuts at IAA Mobility in Munich from September 9 to 14, 2025.