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

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).

Heck, there’s even ‘Push-to-Pass’ which isn’t an underhand way of getting past an angry staff-wielding Gandalf, but instead a button that unlocks 120bhp of boost for up to 10 seconds.

Looks wise, it’s… like a Cayenne Electric, only here it gets 20in ‘Aero’ wheels, and new front and rear aprons painted grey. There are thirteen different body colours to choose from, along with various interior packs - like the two-tone green one pictured above - to take the Cayenne S Electric’s base price of £99,900 up to wherever you feel most comfortable.