Porsche Macan Electric Review & Prices

The Porsche Macan Electric is a battery-powered take on the petrol Macan, a car that’s been around since the stone-age, yet is still one of the best posh SUVs you can buy. The Macan Electric is also great to drive and has a plush interior, but rear headroom isn’t great.

Like an A-list celebrity undergoing a career change, the Macan Electric is just as desirable as the Macan has ever been, now with an up to date, environmentally-conscious image.

It’s not alone, though, with some highly competent alternatives to consider. The BMW iX3 and Volvo EX60 are superb, more practical choices that break the 500-mile range mark, while the Mercedes GLC Electric has a far shoutier, head-turning design. The Audi Q6 e-tron is mechanically related to the Macan Electric, but it feels nowhere near as premium inside.

Porsche Macan Electric: electric range, battery and charging data

Range: 362-398 miles
Efficiency: 2.9 - 3.7mi/kWh
Battery size: 100kWh
Max charge speed: 270kW
Charge time AC: 10hrs, 0-100% @ 11kW
Charge time DC: 21mins, 10-80% @ 270kW
Charge port location: Left and right side, rear
Power outputs: 360hp / 408hp / 516hp / 571hp / 639hp

None of the alternatives look quite as sleek, either. The BMW may be uber-futuristic and the Volvo hyper-minimalist, but the Macan Electric wears Porsche’s classic curves, soft edges and intricate lights very well. It’s pretty subtle compared to the Audi and Mercedes, but then again, the less said about the GLC Electric’s styling the better.

Step inside and the Macan Electric carries on the subtle-yet-just-right theme, with clear links to the Taycan EV and the 911 sports car. The ruler-straight dashboard is leather trimmed, with a dramatic curve over the oval-shaped driver’s display. While the dash may be largely button-free, the haptic climate controls on the gloss black centre console are rather pleasant to use - if prone to smudges.

Nonetheless, the Macan feels properly luxurious inside and solidly-assembled. Tall adults won’t struggle to find a good seating position, with the front seats dropping nice and low to provide a sporty feel - as they should in a Porsche. The back seats are a touch cosy as a result of the sweeping roofline, but the generous cabin storage and 540-litre boot mean there’s plenty of space for carrying odds and ends. You even get an 84-litre front boot.

The Macan Electric tree climbs from the entry-level car to the range-topping Macan Turbo, with the base model offering the most range at 398 miles to a charge. We managed to achieve 3.6mi/kWh during our test of a Macan 4S, meaning 342 real-world miles against the 376-mile claim. Nice.

The sporty GTS version only manages 362 miles, which is is plenty for most. It isn’t something to brag about when an iX3 can manage 500 miles, and an EX60 runs out at 503 miles.

Regardless of which model you choose, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a better electric SUV to drive. An EX60 is quieter in town and an iX3 is a better motorway wafter than the Macan Electric, but there’s a sporty edge to the still-comfortable Porsche which makes it a joy on any road, at any time.

Verdict

The Porsche Macan Electric is a lovely thing. It’s practical enough to be a usable family car while still feeling special from behind the wheel, and while a Mercedes GLC Electric or Audi Q6 e-tron are more sensible, they can’t match the cachet of having a Porsche crest on the steering wheel.

You can get a great deal on a Porsche Macan Electric through Carwow, as well as Macan Electric lease offers. There are used Macan Electrics for sale, as well as other used Porsches to choose from. When the time comes to sell your current car, Carwow can help with that too.

The Porsche Macan Electric starts at just under £70,000, with five versions to choose from offering different performance and range figures. The entry-level ‘Macan’ model is the slowest but goes the furthest on a charge, then it’s almost £3,000 to jump to the Macan 4, and another £5,000 on top for the 4S.

Prices then take a leap to nearly £91,000 for the sporty Macan GTS, while the top-of-the-range Turbo model will set you back over £99,000 - before ticking any options.

That makes it a chunk more expensive than the BMW iX3, Polestar 4, Volvo EX60, Audi Q6 e-tron or Mercedes GLC Electric. That being said, if you want a Q6 e-tron with the legs to match the Macan’s range, you’ll be paying closer to £70,000 anyway.

Still, Porsche is king of the option list and though all Macans come with decent equipment levels, it’s all too easy to add almost £10,000 onto the price of any version with just a choice of paint, wheels and interior upholstery.

The Porsche Macan Electric is easy to drive around town, but blisteringly good fun on a twisty road, too. Visibility could be better, though

In town

The Porsche Macan Electric is a gentle car over bumps, especially if you spec it with the optional air suspension, which makes it positively cushion-like. There’s very good noise insulation, with both exterior noises and suspension thumps kept well under control, so it’s a very relaxing car to drive around town.

With the driving mode switch set to ‘Normal’ the steering is light enough to make parking and tight turns easy enough, but still with that reassuring chunkiness that reminds you you’re in a Porsche. There is a limitation with one-pedal driving — the brake regeneration effect is quite gentle, so it’s hard to drive the Macan Electric around town without resorting to pressing the actual brake pedal.

The seating position in the Macan Electric is quite low, which is good for twisty roads, but you might want to bring the seat up a bit to give you a slightly better view out around town. Visibility is okay – there are quite thick roof pillars, but the pronounced front wheelarches mean it’s easy to place the Macan accurately. The view out the rear window is quite poor, but at least there are decent door mirrors.

The Macan Electric comes as standard with front and rear parking sensors and a reversing camera, but a 360-degree parking camera costs extra as does a rear windscreen wiper, which can make for a lack of visibility at slow speeds on a winter’s morning.

On the motorway

Although tyre noise makes itself known at higher speeds, the Macan Electric does keep its refinement cool on long motorway runs, and it’s an exceptionally comfortable car, especially if it’s a version fitted with air suspension.

For the ultimate in responsiveness when trying to merge with fast-flowing traffic, it helps to have the driving mode switched to Sport Plus, at which point any Macan Electric — but especially the super-rapid Turbo — will slam your head back into the seat with some proper venom when you accelerate hard.

As standard, the Macan Electric gets regular cruise control, not radar-guided cruise, so if you’re constantly heading up and down the motorway, spending extra to get adaptive cruise might be a good idea. There is standard lane-keeping and lane-changing steering though, as well as driver awareness detection to make sure you’re staying alert on those longer drives.

On a twisty road

The Macan Electric is great on a twisty road. Set the car into Sport Plus mode and the suspension keeps it very level through corners, with almost no body lean at all.

Unlike many other electric cars, the Macan Electric’s motors and battery have been set up to build its performance as you drive, rather than just dumping all the power onto the tarmac at once, so it feels more like a high-performance petrol car.

The four-wheel drive Macan Electric models can actually send all of the car’s power to the rear electric motor, which makes this zero-emission SUV feel rather old-school with its rear-wheel drive, tail-happy character, so it’s much more adjustable and playful. It’s a neat trick.

The brakes are astonishing, and also feel like traditional petrol-car brakes, as Porsche has done a terrific job of blending the brake energy recuperation with the actual physical squeezing of callipers onto discs. It feels totally natural, not something you can say for every EV.

Speaking of which, compared to the (more affordable) Tesla Model Y Performance, the Tesla can give you thrills in a straight-line with its performance, but it can’t come close to matching the Macan’s fun factor around corners.

Interior storage and boot space are largely decent, but the BMW iX is roomier for those in the back seats

The Porsche Macan Electric has a deep storage box under the front seat armrest, which is lined with felt so anything left in there won’t rattle around. The cupholders on the centre console are not only backlit with ambient lighting, but they’re also usefully deep so if you stash a tall bottle of water or fizzy drink in there, it doesn’t get in the way of your elbow when you’re driving.

There’s an open-sided storage area in front of the cupholders, below the climate control panel, and another small lidded storage area up top, which is home to the wireless phone charger.

The glovebox is reasonably sized, and has a lovely damped action when you open it. The door bins are a good size too, and segmented so that a big bottle of water can be propped up and won’t fly around when you accelerate.

Space in the back seats

The Macan Electric is definitely more spacious in the back seats than the old petrol-powered version. There’s generous knee-room even with a tall driver sitting in the front. Porsche shapes its battery so that there’s, theoretically, more space for your feet in the back (hilariously, this is known by Porsche as a ‘foot garage’…) but even so, the Macan’s rear seat does feel a bit low-set, so your knees feel like they’re sticking up in the air a bit too much.

There’s also not enough space under the front seats to tuck your feet unless those in the front have lifted them up a bit. Headroom in the back is okay, but if the car is fitted with the optional panoramic glass roof, it gets a bit tight.

There’s a useful climate control panel in the back, but the sliders for the rear air vents feel terribly cheap.

There are ISOFIX anchor points in the outer two rear seats, and the door bins are good, but annoyingly the rear windows don’t wind all the way down.

Boot space

The 540 litres of boot capacity is a decent amount for the Macan Electric. That means it has more boot capacity than either the BMW iX or the Polestar 4, and even slightly more than its cousin, the Audi Q6 e-tron.

There’s a small load lip, but not enough to worry about, and there are chrome scuff plates to prevent scratches when loading in large objects. There are netted storage areas at each side of the boot, and stretchy bands which can be used to hold bags or shopping in place, as well as bag hooks and tie-down points.

The rear seats split 40:20:40 with a load-through centre rear seat so you can carry long, narrow items and still have two rear seat passengers. The seats fold down by tugging handles inside the boot, and they fold almost entirely flat.

There’s no space to store the luggage cover under the boot floor, which is annoying, but there is a slot which allows you to store it upright against the back seats.

There’s also an 84-litre storage area in the nose of the Macan Electric, which is perfect for stashing charging cables and which has an optional hands-free opening system where you just brush the badge on the bonnet to trigger the latch.

The Porsche Macan Electric’s interior is modern, high-tech and well-built, but the black plastic can mark quite easily

The Porsche Macan Electric’s cabin has clearly been inspired by the Taycan electric saloon, and the whole effect is that it looks very high-tech and modern.

There’s a set of high-definition digital dials behind the wheel, on a gently curving 12.3-inch screen. There are plenty of options for the screen layout and what information is being displayed, all controlled by a simple switch on the steering wheel.

The main infotainment screen is slick and responsive, with very sharp graphics. There are handy functions such as being able to modify the different driving modes so that they suit your needs. There’s also an optional passenger side screen, on which the person in the front passenger seat can set the sat-nav, pick music, or watch YouTube videos, but it seems a bit pointless when they could just use their own phone or tablet.

Overall quality is excellent, especially with the ‘extended leather’ pack — the stitching of which is laser-straight — but the black plastic trim in the cabin marks really easily. Thankfully, Porsche does stick with proper physical controls for the heating and air conditioning, which takes a lot of the strain off the main infotainment screen.

With a 100kWh battery, the Macan Electric has a decent claimed range figure of up to 398 miles for the basic model, but that drops away progressively as you go up the the range (and power output) through the Macan 4 (380 miles), the Macan 4S (378 miles), Macan GTS (362 miles) and finally to the Turbo (367 miles).

That makes it about average among alternatives – you can go further for less in the Polestar 4, BMW iX3 and Volvo EX60 - though not all versions of the Audi Q6 e-tron can break 300 miles between charges.

Naturally, if you’re using all of the copious performance on offer, especially that of the GTS and Turbo, you can expect real-world range to drop a lot. During our testing of a Macan 4S, we saw efficiency of 3.6 miles per kWh, which would give you a range of about 342 miles.

The Macan can charge impressively quickly, at up to 270kW from a rapid DC charging point, but the optional electrically-powered charging flap seems like a needless extra expense and proves quite fiddly to operate.

Being an electric car means the Macan Electric attracts the lowest Benefit-in-Kind rate for company car choosers, as well as falling into the lowest first-year Vehicle Excise Duty band. However, its high purchase price means you’ll have to pay the expensive car supplement through years two to six.

Porsche Macan Electric Euro NCAP score (2024): 5/5

Adult occupant: 90%
Child occupant: 90%
Vulnerable road users: 83%
Safety assist: 78%

Euro NCAP scored the Macan Electric its highest five-star rating, with seriously impressive scores of 90% in both adult and child occupant protection. That's actually slightly lower than the mechanically similar Audi Q6 e-tron, but there's only a couple of percentage points in it.

As standard, the Macan does come with traffic sign recognition, front and rear parking sensors and a reversing camera, lane-keeping assistance with emergency stop function, lane change assist, regular cruise control, ‘intersection assist’ which stops you turning across the path of another car, and driver awareness detection.

Porsche is too niche to have placed in the 2026 Driver Power survey for owner satisfaction, but the brand came in first place for three consecutive years in 2021, 2022 and 2023.

Porsche also has a strong reputation for reliability, with a three-year, unlimited-mile warranty on mechanical parts and the industry standard eight-year, 100,000-mile warranty on the battery, motor and electrical components.