A luxury SUV you can charge up at home and use to trundle about silently is not a new thing. Porsche’s first plug-in Cayenne arrived back in 2015, a Range Rover Sport fed by cable as well as pump was only two years later. Others are available from Audi, Mercedes, Volvo, BMW, Bentl… you get the picture. Hybrids are now the biggest sellers in the range. They’re low tax and – if used properly – cheap on petrol.
These two also pitch a curveball: they’re sporty. Porsche genuinely believes buyers want the Cayenne to handle like a sports car. Range Rover believes different; that the appearance of sportiness is what they actually want, so what matters is attitude. The Sport is
