Audi and Porsche Develop PPE Platform for Coming EVs

Partners

The two brands will initially be launching separately as they develop their respective EVS. However, while the two cars will ride on distinct platforms developed independently to begin (C-BEV for Audi and J1 for Porsche), come 2021, a jointly developed platform dubbed the PPE (Premium Platform Electric) will be available to the public.  

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Are you down with PPE?

The purpose of the PPE is to allow for greater flexibility in order for the two manufacturers to create low and high-riding models in multiple size categories.

The VW Group, to which both car brands belong, has already locked in “three model families,” two of them for Audi and the other for Porsche. Approximately 550 engineers will come from Audi and 300 from Porsche are already working on the project. 

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Serious EV Range

Consider this: Porsche's J1 in the production Mission E is expected to deliver 300 miles or more in range and an 800-volt charging system enabling 80% of the battery to be charged in around 15 minutes. Building on this platform alone, not to mention any changes /discoveries /updates that will be made between now and 2021 automatically puts the PPE among best-in-class performance for EVs.

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Saving VW Money

By teaming their engineers, Audi and Porsche, and any other VW Group brands that use the platform, will be able to get electric cars to the market faster and at significantly lower cost than if they continued independently.

Going down this road also enables them to create a larger scope for the platform, not only in the area of electrification but also in digitization and self-driving capability.

“If we had to tackle the challenges ahead on our own, the costs would be around 30 percent higher,” Porsche CEO Oliver Blume said in a statement.

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Differences

Audi will rely on the MEB (Modular Electric Toolkit) platform developed by Volkswagen for its compact cars. Porsche, on the other hand, is believed to be working on a separate platform for electric sports cars, referred to as the SPE (Sports Platform Electric). But don’t get too excited about this just yet – cars on the SPE platform aren't expected until after 2025. 

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