Crucially, the Sport gets the same powertrain as the Range Rover, but at a lower price (from £109,810, no US prices yet) and with different tuning. Like its larger sibling, the two 260-kilowatt motors dish out up to 550 pferdestärke (PS) and 850 Newton-meters (Nm) of torque (more than any other Range Rover Sport to date). It can go from standstill to 60 mph in 4.3 seconds if you’re in the EV’s Dynamic Launch Mode.
As for range, Range Rover claims the Sport with its 118.5-kilowatt-hour battery will get up to 374 miles on the WLTP standard, which should mean about 320 miles under the EPA’s stricter testing. Split-charging tech and an 800-volt architecture let the SUV add 136 miles of range in as little as 10 minutes in ideal charging conditions, and go from 10 to 80 percent in 22 minutes.
For dynamic driving as well as off-road smarts, the Sport has all-wheel steering and electronic Active Roll Control, which can supposedly apply up to 1,400 Nm of force across each axle to keep “maximum composure,” as well as an adaptive dynamics system that monitors 100 parameters 500 times per second for greater control of body roll and pitch when cornering or braking. The car can also wade through up to 900 mm of water and tackle 45-degree inclines.
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