Porsche continues to take steps to promote electric mobility in Spain and Portugal. The German firm has just launched its new Porsche City Charging program, based on the installation of 175 kW super-fast charging posts for electric cars in the main cities of the Iberian Peninsula.
These charging stations will be located in hotels, shopping centers or other strategic locations, as was the case with the Porsche Destination Charging initiative, which began in 2019, but in its case with 11 kW poles.
These electric stations are not exclusive to Porsche cars: any electric car can charge its batteries at these points. “Porsche is contributing to the improvement of the charging infrastructure, and it is doing so so that all electric car drivers can enjoy these benefits, not just those of our brand,” said Tomás Villén, CEO of Porsche Ibérica.
Two are already operational
To date, two cities already have these 175 kW charging points operational, in which, according to Porsche, most electric vehicles can charge their battery in just half an hour.
The first one was released in Barcelona a few weeks ago, specifically in the central L´illa shopping center, which is located on Avenida Diagonal, between the districts of Les Corts and Sarriá-San Gervasio. The second was inaugurated a few days later, in the luxury marina Puerto Banús in Marbella (Malaga).
But soon more will join: in the coming weeks, the German brand plans to open new points in Madrid, Zaragoza, Valencia, as well as in the Portuguese cities of Lisbon and Porto .
In the Spanish capital, it will do so twice, opening two stations in different locations that have not yet been revealed. Thus, these 175 kW points are added to those already released in the city in November, located at the Porsche Madrid North Center.
Although those that are in this Madrid official center of the manufacturer are turbochargers, offering an even higher charging power than those of Porsche City Charging: 350 kW, the same offered by those of the IONITY network, to which Porsche also belongs. In total, this site has six of these ultra-fast poles.
To facilitate recharging, these 175 kW points allow direct payment by credit card instead of through an app, as is the case in other electric stations.
Alliance with Iberdrola
Porsche’s commitment to the infrastructure for plug-in cars does not end here: at the end of November, the Stuttgart firm signed an agreement with the electricity company Iberdrola to create the Porsche Iberdrola High Power Charging Network in Spain.
It is a network of 35 electric stations with fast chargers (50 kW), superfast (150 kW) and ultrafast (350 kW). Each of them will have between six and eight poles, two of which are 350 kW and the rest are fast or super-fast charging.
At these points, Porsche customers will be able to enjoy six months of free recharging , as well as at any of the chargers that Iberdrola already has active in our country, which currently exceed 5,500 with 600 installed on roads and highways.
All this taking into account that Porsche only has one electric car in its portfolio, the Porsche Taycan, although it does offer plug-in hybrid versions in models such as the Cayenne or the Panamera.