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The Range Rover Sport Electric makes 542bhp, 850Nm, offers 609km WLTP range, and has a fake supercharger whine. Is it still a Range Rover Sport? That whine isn't mechanical. It is an 80-hertz pulse with two string loops over the top, built to imitate the supercharged V8. We drove the First Edition in Zadar Grey through the Scottish Highlands to find out whether an electric Range Rover Sport can still feel like a Sport.
The Range Rover Sport Electric shares its 118.5kWh battery and two motors with the Range Rover Electric, so the difference between them comes down to the chassis. It makes 542bhp and 850Nm, the most torque of any Range Rover Sport, and does 0 to 100kmph in 4.3 seconds with Dynamic Launch.
It is still a Range Rover underneath: it wades through 900mm of water and climbs 45 degrees. JLR tested it at minus 40 in Sweden, in the Dubai desert, at the Nurburgring, on a private track outside Tokyo and in the marble quarries of Carrara. The official range is 609km on the WLTP test.
In India, bookings have opened but the launch, price and timing have not been announced. The Range Rover Electric impressed us. We are less sure about the Range Rover Sport Electric.
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