Range Rover Sport Electric 2027: Cayenne Electric, G-Class & iX5 rival breaks cover at Goodwood obstacle course

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The long-awaited electric Range Rover will be joined by an electric Range Rover Sport, which has made its debut in prototype form at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

Expected to follow its bigger brother to Australia sometime in 2027, it marks a new chapter for the brand, which sports a line-up flush with plug-in hybrids, but has delayed the rollout of fully electric vehicles beyond its 2025 plan amid uncertainty around demand.

Prototypes of the electric Range Rover Sport were shown off at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in England overnight, where it was subjected to a series of challenges to show off its generous approach/breakover/departure angles, as well as the traction ability expected of the brand.

Australian pricing is yet to be confirmed. Its closest current rival, the Porsche Cayenne Electric, asks for $186,719 driveaway, and the Mercedes-Benz G580 is $215,537 before on-road costs. 

Ominously for Land Rover, one rival has gone to an early grave – a collapse in demand for the Audi Q8 e-tron prompted the German marque to not only discontinue it in 2025, but to close its Belgian factory.

The Range Rover Sport P460e plug-in hybrid is $166,089 before on-roads. Australian pricing for the BMW iX5 is yet to be determined ahead of Australian deliveries next year.

Notably, the prototype Rangies were displayed completely undisguised, with the EV sharing the same platform and design with the existing Range Rover Sport. This means dimensions are almost certainly identical: non-electric versions are 1822mm tall, 4946mm long and 2047mm wide, not including the mirrors.

Specifications were absent from Land Rover’s announcement. However, British outlet Top Gear, which briefly drove the prototype at Goodwood, extracted from Land Rover’s representatives that the full-size Range Rover EV would donate its powertrain wholesale to the Range Rover Sport EV.

Therefore it’s a safe bet the electric Range Rover Sport will have a 800-volt battery, designed and built in-house by Land Rover. Outputs of 404kW & 850Nm have also been reported, along with a battery capacity of 117kWh and a 350kW maximum charging speed.

Weight is unknown. With an unladen weight of 2741kg, the plug-in hybrid Range Rover Sport is already one the heaviest cars on the Australian market. Two NRL players and their things, for example, would make it too heavy to legally traverse some roads, so the EV’s weight figure is one to closely watch.

Waiting lists are now open for the full-size Range Rover Electric in Australia but the Sport has yet to be officially locked in, though it does appear likely. 

Chasing Cars has reached out to JLR for comment on the situation.