The Most Powerful Porsche EVER! Cayenne Electric | Full Review

From InsideEVs.

Porsche is at an EV crossroads. The company released its first all-electric model, the Taycan, over six years ago, and its second, the Macan Electric, just last year. The Macan, while well-received by critics, has yet to replace its gas-powered equivalent as originally planned. As for the electric 718 Boxster and Cayman sports cars? Crickets.

This is the backdrop against which Porsche launches its third EV, the Cayenne Electric. Don’t worry—the gas and hybrid Cayennes aren’t going anywhere, the electric base, S, and Turbo models just join the fray later this spring.

After spending most of a day driving and poking around it, I can tell you that this is the Volkswagen Group’s most impressive electric car yet, and a true sports car experience in an SUV body. But excellence doesn’t come cheap.

All Cayenne Electric trims come with a 108.0-kilowatt-hour usable battery pack, which InsideEVs found to be good for over 350 miles of real-world US highway range in a test of a pre-production model. Porsche uses the same LG pouch cells here as it does in the Taycan, but with a completely different layout and construction, which includes double-sided cooling for better thermal management.

The Cayenne’s 800-volt architecture enables up to 400-kilowatt DC fast charging, with a sprint from 10-80 percent in just 16 minutes. As any EV road-tripper knows, the area under the curve is what matters, and the Cayenne’s is flat as a pancake. The party trick here is wireless charging, which the Cayenne will be able to do at 11 kW with Porsche’s proprietary wireless charging pad later this year.

It can also tow up to 7,700 pounds, which is significantly more than the Macan Electric’s 5,500 pound max rating. There’s no word on highway range while towing, but if your electric Porsche SUV use case includes towing a boat (or a race car), this is the one you want.

I’ll admit, I rarely find electric sports cars—er, SUVs—entirely compelling. While EVs are great for commuting and fascinating technologically, the combination of stomach-twisting torque, usually heavy weight, and complete silence tends to be a bit of a one-note experience. The exceptions—the Porsche Taycan, related Audi e-tron GT, and Hyundai Ioniq 5 N—prove the rule. Add this Cayenne to that short list.

I sampled the 844-horsepower Turbo variant (which can technically exceed 1,000 horsepower in ten-second push-to-pass and launch control modes). Like all fast EVs, the thrust is mind-bending at full throttle, but what’s more impressive is the pedal calibration.

Porsche is great at fine-tuning driver inputs, and where some EVs with this amount of power feel jumpy or even nauseating, the Cayenne’s throttle is precise and easy to modulate. Porsche engineers told me they didn’t include one-pedal driving on the Cayenne (or Porsche’s earlier EVs) because they wanted to give drivers finer control over the car. The brakes are firm and linear, too, allowing you to dial in just enough stopping force without giving your passengers motion sickness. Job well done, Stuttgart.

00:00 – 2026 Cayenne Electric Review
01:26 – 2026 Cayenne Electric Exterior
02:30 – 2026 Cayenne Electric Interior
04:50 – 2026 Cayenne Electric Charging & Range
06:10 – 2026 Cayenne Electric Driving Dynamics
08:36 – Conclusion

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