Pascal Wehrlein’s Porsche 99X Electric has a new home. On 24 September 2026, Porsche announced that the car he used to win his second Formula E drivers’ title, clinched in London on 16 August, is now part of the Porsche Museum collection in Zuffenhausen. It is the original championship car, not a show replica, and visitors can get close to it.
Porsche calls the 99X its most successful single-seater yet. Over the GEN3 era it collected six of the ten FIA World Championship titles on offer, which, according to the manufacturer, also makes it the most successful car of Formula E’s third generation.
Towed to Zuffenhausen by an electric Cayenne
The car made what Porsche expects to be its final journey on a trailer. Final preparation happened in the motorsport workshops at the Weissach development centre. Then a Cayenne Turbo Electric towed it to Zuffenhausen.
The pairing was deliberate. Porsche uses it to make a point about technology moving from the track to the road, and gives two concrete examples. Direct oil cooling of the rear electric motor, developed on the 99X, appears in the brand’s latest all-electric model. Both vehicles can also recover energy under braking at up to 600 kW. If you read French, our background piece on Porsche’s electrification strategy (French-language resource) covers the wider picture.
A livery borrowed from the 1980s
In the museum, the 99X keeps the historic colours it wore at the season finale. The design borrows from the liveries of several winning Porsche race cars of the 1980s. It sits inside the special exhibition « Raceborn: 75 Years of Porsche Motorsport », which runs until 17 January 2027. The anniversary dates back to 1951, when a Porsche 356 SL took a class win at Le Mans.
The company it keeps is telling. Official photos show the 99X alongside the 804 Formula 1 car from 1962 and the 2708 Indycar from 1987, Porsche’s two earlier single-seater programmes. Another set-up places it in front of a 956 from 1982 and a 911 RSR from 2018.
From the 2017 announcement to six titles
When Porsche announced its move from endurance racing to Formula E in 2017, it was leaving familiar ground. Hybrid prototypes in races lasting six hours or more had been the core of Porsche Motorsport’s work. An all-electric sprint single-seater was a different job entirely.
Results arrived with GEN3. That generation brought a lighter battery, energy recovery on the front axle and 100 kW more power. In the first GEN3 season, 2022/2023, the works team stayed in the title fight until London. The first Formula E championship for Porsche came from elsewhere, though: Jake Dennis, driving for customer team Andretti Formula E.
Wehrlein won the drivers’ title at the same venue a year later, after a record seven-win season for what was then the TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team. The GEN3 Evo, with temporary all-wheel drive, then delivered Porsche’s first manufacturers’ and teams’ titles in 2024/2025. In 2025/2026, Porsche took the manufacturers’ crown for the second time in Tokyo, three weeks before the London finale, where Wehrlein sealed his second drivers’ title. We covered that weekend in Pascal Wehrlein clinches his second Formula E world title.
Porsche highlights two facts about its driver. Wehrlein is the only German single-seater world champion since Nico Rosberg won the 2016 Formula 1 title with Mercedes-AMG. And he now shares a record with Jean-Éric Vergne: they are the only two drivers to have won the Formula E drivers’ championship twice.
The numbers
Across 2022 to 2026, GEN3 and GEN3 Evo combined, Porsche counts 6 world titles, 23 race wins and 22 pole positions. Two customer teams ran the car, Andretti Formula E and CUPRA KIRO. Wehrlein holds the model’s records for drivers’ titles (2) and pole positions (10).
The GEN3 Evo produces 300 kW (408 PS) in normal running and 350 kW (476 PS) in Attack Mode and qualifying duels. It is rear-wheel drive most of the time, switching to all-wheel drive in Attack Mode, qualifying duels and race starts. Porsche quotes roughly 2.0 seconds from 0 to 100 km/h. The spec battery holds 38.5 kWh of usable energy and weighs 285 kg. Around half the energy used in a race comes from brake energy recovery. Total weight is 862 kg including the driver, and the car is 5,016 mm long.
Porsche developed the rear-axle drivetrain in-house: pulse inverter, electric motor, gearbox, differential and driveshafts. The cooling, carrier and suspension components on the rear axle and the operating software were also Porsche’s own work.
Handing over to the 975 RSE
Thomas Laudenbach, Vice President Porsche Motorsport, recalls that when Porsche signed up in 2017, drivers still had to swap cars halfway through a race because one battery charge could not cover the distance. He lists what has changed since: better batteries, more energy recovery, more power and 600 kW fast charging. In his view, Porsche road cars benefited too.
The successor is ready. The 975 RSE, Porsche’s GEN4 car developed in Weissach, is due to hit the track in December 2026. Our piece on the development of the 975 RSE explains how it was built.
Source: Porsche Newsroom, press release dated 24 September 2026.
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