2025 Porsche 911 GTS and Turbo to get hybrid treatment

The upcoming hybrid versions of the 2025 Porsche 911 will be spread across two of the fastest and most exciting model variants as part of the 992.2 update.

Due next year, Porsche will add electric motors and a battery pack to the 2025 Porsche 911 GTS and Turbo versions of its iconic sports car, it has been confirmed to carsales.

“GTS and Turbo a clear yes,” said Porsche’s deputy chairman of the executive board for finance and IT, Lutz Meschke, when asked which 911 variants would get the hybrid treatment.

“Hybrid [drivetrain] … it’s [being reserved for] the upper ones.”

While the long-anticipated move to offer hybrid variants within the 911 range will tick the fuel efficiency box – in turn helping lower CO2 emissions against mandated government test regulations – it should also offer a significant boost to performance, in the same way hybrid versions of the Cayenne and Panamera have resulted in faster machines.

“It’s more an electric boost to get more power,” said Meschke.

However, whereas other Porsche hybrids can be externally recharged, Meschke confirmed the imminent new models would not be plug-in hybrids, instead sticking with a lighter-weight regular hybrid system.

“It’s not a plug-in, it’s a hybrid version that you already know from motorsports,” he said. “A boost on performance.”

Accompanying the new 911 hybrid models are all-new internal combustion engines, continuing a long-running Porsche tradition to upgrade powerplants midway through the model life of each 911 generation.

The 911 GTS is expected to do away with turbo power and instead utilise a new 3.6-litre naturally-aspirated six-cylinder.

The electric motor (or motors) will no doubt provide torque lower in the rev range to provide that additional performance boost and help with low-rev driveability.

The 911 Turbo Hybrid will continue to run a twin-turbo system but is expected to debut a new engine, again utilising the high-tech hybrid system.

The current 911 GTS makes 353kW and 570Nm and leaps to 100km/h in 3.4 seconds and to 200km/h in 12.7sec.

The current 911 Turbo makes 427kW/750Nm and hits 100km/h in 2.8sec and 200km/h in 9.7sec.

Clearly any update and addition of hybrid drivetrains will lead to performance gains.

And Meschke hinted the hybrid love could eventually spread further across the model range.

“Maybe later then the more mainstream S models but it’s not decided yet,” he said, while also confirming the long-rumoured Turbo GT.

“Then we have the Turbo GT and so-on.”

When asked about a Turbo S model, he hinted that may be retired with the arrival of the 911 Turbo GT.

“We want to clean up a little bit our model range,” he said.

In any hybrid variants, though, don’t go expecting a manual hybrid, with Porsche expected to limit the petrol-electric versions to the quicker-shifting PDK autos.

Of course, the big challenge for any hybridised Porsche is weight.

The hybrid version of the Cayenne is about 250kg heavier than the non-hybrid equivalent.

While any weight gains on a 911 are unlikely to be as dramatic – in part because the battery pack is expected to be relatively small at around one-tenth the size of a typical PHEV battery pack – there’s still the weight of batteries, an electric motor and control systems that will create challenge for chassis engineers.

Down the track, the hybrid tech could also spread to the range-topping GT2 RS, a car that is yet to materialise in current 992 guise but is expected soon.

We asked Porsche’s global CEO Olive Blume about the prospects of a 992-generation GT2, to which have gave a predictably guarded reply.

However, while smiling and answering with “we think about other editions in future” there’s clearly something in the wings.

Adding some electricity into the GT2 mix would be a tantalising proposition – and provide a relatively easy power gain.

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