Land Rover Range Rover Sport Electric review

It's well-equipped so you'd likely be happy with the lead-in Dynamic SE trim – itself the third level up for the diesel Range Rover. You've all the chassis goodies, 21s, a glass roof, pixel headlights, and heated electric seats all round, and Meridian hifi, although not the one with noise cancellation.

That's £109,810. A lot, and £20k more than the cheapest 300bhp diesel at that trim. But remember the performance is comparable with the P540 V8 which costs roughly the same as the Electric.

Lease prices are also similar to that petrol, by the way – around £1,500 a month and £15k down.

Next trim is Autobiography, adding massaging and vented seats, 22-inch wheels, black roof, a HUD and four-zone climate. That's £122,780. Even this high up the range, real leather is a £2,210 option.

There's also a First Edition, as is the way these days, at £126,290. It's mostly about the cosmetics.

What else do I need to know?

There's a Range Rover charging app which is claimed to cover a vast subset of public chargers. We haven't had the chance to test this, but we've never found a truly comprehensive manufacturer-tied scheme. Still, it does give access to the Tesla Supercharger network in America.

The car's navigation is designed to sniff out these connected locations along your route, and you can pay directly.

With a battery this big it's reassuring to have 22kW as standard for the on-board charger. That's useful in public car parks, especially in France, and gives a full charge in eight hours. Otherwise it's 20 hours 0-100 on your home 7kW socket, which is just the maths of having a vast 118.5kWh battery. Range Rover is honest enough to quote the time for a full recharge on a domestic three-pin plug. It's 65 hours. Yawn.

Far more relevant is DC intake for brief road-trip stops. It can swig from a 350kW charger, getting from 10-80 per cent in 22 minutes. On a very common 150kW charger, it's 38 minutes.

It'll tow 2,500kg, and the system lets you input trailer info so it can predict range. But we'd still suggest the diesel version if you do a lot of that because most public rapid-chargers don't have space to plug in while the trailer is hitched up.
Vehicle-to-load will be handy if you're out in the boonies and want to boil a kettle or run some lights.

About the off-roading: does it really need to be that good? Will owners of shiny new vehicles bash them through the muck and rocks? Likely not. But do BMW M owners go on track? Nope. That sort of capability is for the people who buy them at 5-10 years old, and this has the effect of keeping up the residuals, which helps new buyers by reducing lease rates.