Among the 700-plus Porsche Clubs worldwide, not a single one was dedicated to battery-electric models. Until now. A group of Italian Taycan and Macan owners decided to change that.
The Registro Italiano E-motion is now officially the first Porsche Club on the planet to welcome only drivers of fully electric sports cars.
The club grew out of a group chat. During the pandemic in 2021, a handful of early Taycan buyers in Italy started exchanging tips on software updates, charging stations, and driving experiences.
That informal circle gradually expanded to around 60 members, at which point someone floated the obvious question: why not make it official? Porsche Italia agreed, and the founding charter was signed in Franciacorta.
73 electric Porsches cross the Alps
The club wasted no time putting itself on the road. In September 2025, 131 members set off from Franciacorta in 73 cars: 42 Taycans and 31 Macans in every conceivable spec, from base rear-wheel-drive versions to a pair of Turbo GTs with the Weissach package.
Their destination: the Traumwerk museum near Salzburg, where Ferdinand Porsche’s grandson Hans-Peter opened his private collection to visitors.
Getting 73 EVs charged during a single lunch stop is no trivial matter. Public infrastructure simply cannot handle that kind of demand simultaneously, so Porsche shipped in two mobile Turbo Charging trucks.
This hardware is normally reserved for European racetracks, but Porsche was delighted to bless its club with a convenient charging experience.
Rotating cars
Each truck carried a 14-ton lithium battery pack with 2.1 MWh of stored energy, feeding ten fast-charging points at up to 280 kW. While the group enjoyed barley soup and South Tyrolean specialties in Brixen, charging assistants rotated cars in and out of the charging stations until every battery was fully charged.
Impressive, but the detail is telling: the logistics of group EV travel remain a genuine challenge, even for a manufacturer with Porsche’s resources. But the club treated the charging break as a feature, not a bug. You can call it a natural pause for socializing rather than an inconvenient delay.
A different kind of Porsche crowd
What stands out about the Registro is its demographic. Club president Massimo Piccinno, who has been driving Porsches for over 30 years and bought his first electric car in 2015, describes a membership that spans from people in their late twenties to their mid-seventies, with many families in tow.
But as a sign of the times, the EV club draws noticeably more young members than traditional Porsche Clubs.
Among the more colorful members: cameraman Daniele Massaccesi, who has worked with Ridley Scott and Steven Spielberg and swapped his diesel SUV for a Macan after concluding that combustion engines are “an outdated concept, much like a rotary phone.”
Building its own identity
Porsche’s global club network counts over 240,000 members across 86 countries. The fact that the very first EV-only chapter emerged in Italy (not exactly the country most associated with electric vehicle adoption) suggests that the electric Porsche community is building its own identity rather than waiting for permission from the petrolhead establishment. Next on the calendar: the Italian Porsche Parade in Milan, scheduled for September 2026. So, get charged!
