Porsche Macan Electric Review 2025

Sports car purists may still be reluctant to acknowledge the fact but the first-generation Porsche Cayenne saved the company from collapse. Its popularity was augmented by successive models and amplified further with the Porsche Macan, tapping into growing demand for more compact SUVs. Hopes are high for a repeat with that car’s replacement, the Porsche Macan Electric.

Whether the Porsche Macan Electric ultimately manages to get close to matching its combustion-engined predecessor’s popularity won’t be known for several years yet, but the early signs aren’t exactly sparkling from a sales perspective.

So what’s the issue? After all, the Porsche Taycan range demonstrates its customers will happily switch to switch away from the petrol and plug-in hybrid Panamera in healthy numbers.

One key factor is that the original Macan remains on sale — at least for the time being — with prices ranging from £56,000 to £75,000 before options are factored-in. Compare those with the £68,500 to £96,900 cost extremities of the Macan Electric and you have at least part of the issue.

Another could be related to the Porsche Macan Electric’s styling. Beauty remains in the eye of the beholder and all of that, but while the original looked like a lithe, more athletic Cayenne, the battery-powered Mk2 has an air of a Taycan that’s had a nasty reaction to a wasp sting about it.

Still, the Porsche’s positively salving for the eyes compared with one of its key rivals, the slightly pricier BMW iX. There a much larger margin when the stacking the Macan Electric against the £99,000 required to own a Maserati Grecale Folgore although the Italian does out-pretty it.

Although the Macan Electric doesn’t share any bodywork with the Audi Q6 Sportback e-tron, they’re close cousins beneath the metal, and consequently have a similar silhouette and stance. If you fancy something lower still but want to maintain the sporty nature, the radical looking Polestar 4 might tempt you.

A shade smaller than the Porsche as well as being usefully less costly, is another alternative worthy of attention — the more comfort-focused Genesis GV60. If the name’s unfamiliar to you, this is Hyundai’s standalone luxury car division.

There are four flavours of Porsche Macan Electric available starting off with the, erm… Macan Electric — it hardly feels right calling a 360PS, rear-wheel drive sports SUV with a 5.7-second 0-62mph ‘entry-level’, but that’s what it is.

Adding a second electric motor under the bonnet gives the all-wheel drive Macan 4 Electric a boost to 408PS resulting in a 5.2-second 0-62mph time. The ante can be upped further 516PS with a further 1.1 seconds shaved off the 0-62mph benchmark by plumping for the Macan 4S Electric — that ‘S’ stands for Sport, in case you were wondering.

Flagship is the Porsche Macan Turbo Electric — despite its name suggesting its turbocharged, it isn’t, yet conversely, although there’s no reference to a ‘4’ in its title, it does still feature all-wheel drive, which is useful for squirting to 62mph from nothing in 3.3 seconds. Power? That’ll be 639PS.

As is frequently the case with Porsches, less is more in the Macan Electric’s case — and not only in terms of the WLTP Combined cycle driving range between recharges. That base model boasts a 399-mile range claim, comfortably beating the 4 at 380 miles, 378 miles for the 4S and the non-turbo-Turbo’s 367-mile claim.

All Porsche Macan Electrics have a 100kWh gross capacity battery pack capable of accepting a DC ultra-rapid charge at 270kW — doing so will replenish the charge level from 10-80% in just 21 minutes. A full charge using a domestic wallbox will take 10 hours if you’re lucky enough to have an 11kW AC connection — most of us are capped at 7.4kW, which Porsche doesn’t quote for, but it’ll be in excess of 12 hours.

Today’s Porsche customers demand fine handling and high quality, tech-laden interiors, boxes the Macan Electric emphatically ticks. As well as the performance boosting Sport Chrono package, optional on most models, there’s the Porsche Active Suspension Management (PASM) to consider spending money on, claimed to deliver a tailored balance between sportiness and comfort.

Its dashboard features a slick dual-screen arrangement, the one immediately in front of the driver being curved across the top to mimic Porsche’s analogue dials of old. Sensibly, physical switchgear remains for frequently used functions such as climate control, while you can also spec the cabin in a wide array of eye-popping hues to complement or contrast with the paintwork.

Despite the wealth of speed on offer, Porsche hasn’t overlooked the fact that the Macan Electric needs to also perform as a family SUV, despite its coupe-aping roofline. There’s generous space four adults and five should be reasonably comfy even on longer trips.

Pop the tailgate open and there’s a sensibly shaped 480-litre boot capacity which can be extended further to 1288 litres by folding the 40:20:40 split rear seats over. There’s also a useful 84 litres of extra storage space under the bonnet — for a moment you could imagine you’d bought a 911 as you retrieve some light groceries from there.

Orders for the Porsche Macan Electric opened in 2024 with the first cars already with their owners.

Keep this page bookmarked for our comprehensive Porsche Macan Electric review in the coming weeks.