Test drive of Cayenne EV and Cayenne EV Turbo -- my review

[Alex74]

Testdriving Cayenne EV first, at local dealer, cars are from factory..

Slow reacting car, with about 440hp. inside the car was bmack-white leather, black outside.

Missed passenger display, rest is nice.

Then testdriving the Turbo. Fantastic reaction time on pedal.black exterieure and red-black leather, withcolour modus and display passenger, panoramic roof with fading. Not worth the money.
fantastic ride and silent inside.

Made my choise. Doubting about extreriour colour. Greenoak, bleu or orange.

Tested it with dog bench Porsche for, my Vizsla.

 

[W1NGE]

Range looks disappointing - 399 km or 248 miles.

I'm hoping that improves significantly.

 

[Billbuck]

Range looks disappointing - 399 km or 248 miles.

I'm hoping that improves significantly.

Yes, I noticed the same thing. We’re quite far from the announced 627 km (≈ 390 miles).
I hope this estimate is due to early test drives, probably done with fairly sporty driving, which can skew the figures. It remains to be confirmed under real-world conditions.

 

[Moheisen(FirstEV)]

Range looks disappointing - 399 km or 248 miles.

I'm hoping that improves significantly.

I’ve driven plenty of loaner cars identical to mine while it was in service, Macan and even Taycan, and noticed the same pattern. With my relatively “laid-back” driving style, usually with three kids in the car, my estimated range after a year at 100% charge was around 520 km. However, when I sat in the same type of car or even other models, they often showed up to 30% less range.

My point is that people tend to drive these test cars like they’ve stolen them as they do with loaners, so the data ends up being quite skewed in the PCM.

 

[Billbuck]

I’ve driven plenty of loaner cars identical to mine while it was in service, Macan and even Taycan, and noticed the same pattern. With my relatively “laid-back” driving style, usually with three kids in the car, my estimated range after a year at 100% charge was around 520 km. However, when I sat in the same type of car or even other models, they often showed up to 30% less range.

My point is that people tend to drive these test cars like they’ve stolen them as they do with loaners, so the data ends up being quite skewed in the PCM.

That’s reassuring, but I’m still a bit cautious. From the photos, it looks like the tests were done mostly in the city, and the car is almost new (around 450 km).
In theory, urban driving should actually give better range than WLTP, not worse.
So even considering a “sporty driving” bias, the figure still seems quite low to me.