Review: Porsche Cayenne e-Hybrid: what a super-power monster!

Review: Porsche Cayenne e-Hybrid: what a super-power monster!
You can only comprehend the scale of the Cayenne once you're inside. (Image: Supplied)
Matt Martel
Porsche has serious chops in creating high-performing electric vehicles that lure you to fall in love. The sorrow of handing back an electric Taycan stayed with me for weeks.Now, the VW-owned German marque is doing plugin hybrids and the monster Cayenne e-Hybrid SUV is its poster child.The upcoming and unnecessarily onerous road-user charges coming for plugin hybrids shouldn’t dampen demand. If you can afford $186,600 for a vehicle, the extra $38 per 1000km travelled ain’t gonna matter a hill of beans.It will run on just electric fo...

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