Porsche's 11 kW wireless charger is on sale in Europe, not China
Porsche buried its first inductive charger under a list of new paint colours
Porsche's model-year update for the Cayenne Electric leads with 105 paint colours, powered doors and a massage seat with speakers in the backrest. The line that matters sits in the middle: Porsche Wireless Charging, the 11 kW inductive system shown in Munich a year ago, is now available to order in Germany and other European markets. It is the first cable-free home charger at full wallbox power that a European buyer can put on an order form.
Porsche Wireless Charging delivers 11 kW at about 90 percent efficiency from one ground plate
The system is two parts. A ground plate of 117 by 78 by 6 centimetres, weighing about 50 kg, is wired straight into the mains with no wallbox or control unit, in single-phase 48 A or three-phase 16 A form. A liquid-cooled receiver plate sits between the front wheels of the Cayenne Electric and feeds direct current straight into the battery, bypassing the onboard AC charger. The car lowers itself over the plate, positioning tolerance is roughly 20 by 15 centimetres, and charging starts when the parking brake goes on. Porsche quotes up to 90 percent efficiency from grid to battery, against about 94 percent for a cable, and says 75 percent of all charging by its EV owners happens at home. The plate is certified CE and UL, which covers Europe and the United States.
The ground plate costs £4,750 in Britain; a full system lands near €7,000
The release names no price. Porsche's British price list puts the ground plate at £4,750 and the plate plus vehicle receiver at £6,750; in the United States the plate is $6,500 and the receiver $1,650, with a $250 pre-installation option on the car. For Germany the only figure is the one a Porsche representative gave at the IAA in September 2025, about €5,000 for the plate and just under €7,000 for the full system, which Porsche has not confirmed since. A Tesla Wall Connector costs €535 in Germany. The 4-point efficiency gap is worth about 120 kWh a year for a Cayenne driven 15,000 km at 20 kWh/100 km, roughly €45 at German household rates, so the premium buys convenience, and convenience is what Porsche already sells the Macan Electric by the package.
Genesis sold 11 kW inductive charging in Korea in 2022, BMW tried 3.2 kW in 2018
Porsche is not the first to sell the idea. BMW offered a 3.2 kW inductive pad on the 530e plug-in hybrid in 2018, in a small pilot that went no further. Genesis fitted an 11 kW WiTricity system to the GV60 in South Korea in 2022, with a separate wallbox on the wall. Porsche's claim is narrower and holds: the first 11 kW system with the electronics inside the floor plate, and the first you can order across Europe. Tesla has gone one step further on paper, giving the Cybercab no charge port at all, but that car is not on sale to anyone.
Porsche Connect countries get it in stages, and China is the named exception
Porsche says the plate is available now in Germany and other European markets and will reach every country with Porsche Connect in stages, then adds one footnote: not available in China. No reason is given. China runs its own GB/T 38775 standard for inductive charging, published in 2020, while Porsche's plate is certified to European and American rules. The rest of the model-year update is what the headline promised: Paint to Sample joins 13 standard colours for a total of 105, all four doors open and close on servo motors, and the front seats gain 16 air cushions and six sound actuators for five massage programmes, on both the SUV and the Cayenne Coupé Electric revealed in April.
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Paying €7,000 to avoid a cable makes sense for exactly the customer Porsche has: the one who has just specified powered doors and a massage seat with speakers in it on a car that charges at 400 kW on the road. The efficiency loss is real and small, about €45 a year on our arithmetic, and the plate needs no wallbox. Porsche is selling the end of the last chore in EV ownership at a price that filters out anyone who would count it.
Porsche shares its PPE platform with Audi, and the plate is a Volkswagen Group part in all but the badge. If no Audi on that platform offers the same 11 kW floor plate by the 2027 model year, Porsche's one-box charger stays a Cayenne accessory rather than the group standard it was engineered to be. The United States price is already listed, so the market to watch is not America. It is Ingolstadt.
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