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Porsche will have an electric car on sale in five to ten years, according to company boss Michael Macht.

Speaking to German magazine Welt am Sonntag, Macht said that Porsche is working "intensively" on an electrically powered sports car.

However, he added that it would take some time until a marketable model could be introduced "with a reasonable reach, achieving the same handling characteristics of a gasoline engine."

He added: "I could imagine that we will drive the first ...Read the full article

5-10 years is quite a wait, but it'll probably be worth it...

Doubt there'll be a Roxster, wouldn't make brand sense - more likely to be a 928 based on the Panamera, low emissions retro styled 4 pot/hybrid 356 Cabrio, low emissions retro styled 4 pot/hybrid 356 hard top and then a lot of limited run variants such as speedster/spider versions of cabrios and classicsport/supersport variants of coupes. A lot of extra production of existing models can be absorbed by new emerging markets thus not impacting on exclusivity in any given territory.