Can a car ever be too quick? Too powerful for its own good? Normally I’d say no, and remind anyone asking that an accelerator pedal can be applied gradually. But the new Porsche Cayenne Turbo Electric has me wondering if we’ve now reached, and flown right past, Peak EV Performance.

Joining the Macan and Taycan in Porsche’s expanding EV stable, the new Cayenne is a phenomenally good car. Quick, quiet, comfortable, with an excellent interior that features a curved OLED display cascading down its dashboard and a very cool augmented sound track, it’s all the car any electric SUV buyer might need. It also charges incredibly quickly (400 kW is good for a 10-80 percent fill in about 15 minutes) and has a range of almost 400 miles.

But in range-topping Turbo guise, it’s outrageously powerful. Seriously, I’d go so far as to say it’s unnecessary. We’re talking over 1,100 horsepower, a 0-62 mph time of 2.5 seconds and 0-124 mph in 7.4 seconds – about the same as a Bugatti Veyron. It’s the sort of acceleration that feels unpleasant, even from the driver’s seat. An Aston Martin Valhalla is equally quick to 60 mph, but the non-linear power and torque deployment of an engine (and the fact it weighs a ton less than the Cayenne) gives a totally different sensation.

My advice? Save yourself a whole bag of cash, skip the £130,000 Turbo and go for the £100k Cayenne S, or even the £83,000 base model instead. Or wait for the plug-in hybrid option that’s coming later…

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Alistair