Porsche Cayenne Electric Range Test: Surprisingly Great

Porsche Cayenne Electric Range Test: Surprisingly Great

Porsche has always made great EVs, and as I learned on a 300-plus-mile trip, it's still getting better at this every year.

Porsche is getting ready to launch an all-electric version of the Cayenne, a big deal since the Cayenne is arguably the most important modern Porsche, being the company's first SUV at the turn of the millennium and still the standard-bearer for Porsche's SUV efforts.

The Macan Electric may be good, but the Cayenne is the king, and now it's electric, too—with an asterisk, as Porsche will continue to sell the gas-powered Cayenne for the foreseeable future.

The "E4" electric Cayenne is emerging as a new tip-of-the-spear tech flagship that goes beyond even the Taycan in some ways, prompting the question of whether what is now Porsche's biggest, heaviest EV could still be a range champ.

Porsche is getting ready to launch an all-electric version of the Cayenne.

Author's summary: Porsche's electric Cayenne is a surprisingly great range champ.

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