The new Porsche Cayenne S is a £100k electric performance SUV

Third Cayenne Electric derivative swings in with 537 electric horsies

The Porsche Cayenne is an electric car. Not metaphorically, but literally: the new big boi performance SUV is now powered by electrons, and here’s the third version you’ll soon be able to choose from: the Cayenne S Electric.

It fits, according to Porsche, above the regular Cayenne Electric, and below the Cayenne Turbo Electric, making this – perhaps – the Goldilocks version. Goldilocks famously never had 537bhp and a 0-62mph time of 3.8s, but this Cayenne S sure does.

It’ll top out at 155mph, and Porsche reckons on a WLTP range of 405 miles. Like its siblings, the S also gets a 113kWh battery able to accept a 400kW hose, which means a 10 to 80 per cent recharge time of just 16 minutes. Finding said hose will be the issue, of course.

It’s a twin motor drivetrain – one on the front, one on the back – that provides those 537 horsies, or up to 657bhp with Launch Control. It uses tech from the Cayenne Turbo, like direct oil cooling for the rear motor (just can’t stop using that dino-juice, huh), the option of torque vectoring (PTV Plus), ‘Active Ride’ suspension, and monster carbon ceramic brakes (PCCB).