Porsche Expands Formula E Attack With Four GEN4 Cars
Porsche underlines its ambitions in top-level electric motorsport as it prepares for future Formula E seasons. From the 2026/2027 Formula E season onwards, the current Manufacturers’ World Champion plans to field up to four cars itself. A Porsche customer team also plans to compete in Season 13, expanding the Stuttgart marque’s Formula E presence through a dedicated customer entry. Together, the six planned Porsche 99X Electric cars will form part of the next generation of Formula E cars, GEN4, which will deliver over 600 kW of power. This step will give the all-electric race cars their most significant performance increase yet and strengthen Porsche’s position in global electric racing.
“Motorsport shapes our brand,” says Thomas Laudenbach, Vice President, Porsche Motorsport. “Our heritage in traditional motorsport is unique and is reflected in every Porsche. In the future, we want to be able to say the same about electric motorsport.” With this long-term Formula E commitment, Porsche links its racing success directly to the development of high-performance electric sports cars for the road and reinforces the importance of electric motorsport to the brand’s identity.
Laudenbach continues: “Compared to other racing series, Formula E offers a beautiful balance between effort and return. It also allows us to develop further technical solutions that are relevant to our production sports cars. Among other things, we want to use this operational shift to find and promote new talent at all levels, not just drivers.” Porsche therefore uses the FIA Formula E World Championship as a competitive test lab for efficiency, energy management and electric drivetrain technology, and it channels what the teams learn straight into future Porsche Formula E projects and series-production models.
Porsche also intends to base the second team at the Porsche Development Centre in Weissach. “When marketing the additional cars, we want to create as much independence as possible, not just expand our current presence. Next year marks 75 years of Porsche Motorsport – a success story that will also be shaped by stories from electric motorsport in the future,” says Laudenbach. With the expanded factory team and a strong customer squad, Porsche aims to write the next chapter in Formula E with the GEN4 99X Electric and to show how elite electric motorsport accelerates innovation for its global customer base.
