UK price and delivery timing
Britain gets the Sport Electric first, with deliveries due next year. The starting price is £110,000, or about $146,000, against £154,070 for the larger Range Rover Electric, as Electrek reported. The US launch is confirmed but has no date. The expectation is 2027 as a 2028 model year, at roughly $120,000 to $130,000. The announcement carried no price for continental Europe, which leaves EU buyers without a number to plan around.
Battery, range and performance
Numbers first. The pack is 118.5 kWh and the WLTP figure is 608 km (378 miles). Divide one by the other and you get 19.5 kWh/100 km on the test cycle, which is efficient for a car this size and mass. JLR's own real-world claim, 333 miles or 536 km, works out to 22.1 kWh/100 km. Both figures come from the manufacturer. Bjørn Nyland has not tested the Sport EV, and our real-world range calculator has no entry for it.
Two motors, all-wheel drive, 550 PS (405 kW) and 850 Nm, the highest output of any Range Rover Sport. Acceleration from 0 to 60 mph takes 4.3 seconds in Dynamic Launch Mode, roughly 4.5 seconds to 100 km/h. Wading depth is 900 mm, and the quoted climbing ability is a 45-degree slope. Cold-weather numbers are the obvious gap here. Bjørn Nyland's winter tests of other large electric SUVs usually land 20 to 30% below the WLTP figure.
Charging
800 V architecture, up to 350 kW. Now take the two claims apart. Charging from 10 to 80% of a 118.5 kWh pack moves about 83 kWh, and doing that in 22 minutes means an average of roughly 226 kW. The second claim, adding 220 km in 22 minutes, tells a different story. At 22.1 kWh/100 km, 220 km needs about 48 kWh, which is a 131 kW average. Either the quoted capacity is gross rather than usable, one of the windows is not what it appears to be, or one number is marketing. We have seen the same pattern on other high-power cars, where the peak matters far less than how long the car can hold it. That was the point of our piece on EVgo's 750 kW chargers.
Charging and running costs
At 22.1 kWh/100 km, home charging at €0.25/kWh costs €5.50 per 100 km. Public DC charging at €0.60/kWh costs €13.30. A diesel Range Rover Sport at 8 l/100 km and €1.55 per litre comes to about €12.40 on the same distance. The electric car wins on energy cost only if most charging happens at home or on a cheap tariff. Our charging cost calculator will run your own numbers, and the cheapest charging locations in Europe sit inside our database of 483 sites. For a €130,000 SUV this is not the reason to buy it. For a family covering 30,000 km a year, the gap between the two charging scenarios is over €2,000 annually.
How it compares
The Porsche Macan Turbo Electric is the closest rival on size and price: 800 V, up to 270 kW, WLTP range up to 591 km, around £95,000 in the UK. The BMW iX xDrive60 quotes up to 701 km WLTP for less money. The Kia EV9 offers a 99.8 kWh pack, 563 km WLTP, 800 V charging and seven seats for roughly £70,000. The Range Rover Sport EV answers with a higher peak charging rate, 900 mm of wading depth and the badge. It does not answer on range per euro.
What to check before ordering
Ask JLR whether the 118.5 kWh is usable or gross capacity, because that shifts every cost figure above by a few percent. Then ask for the charging curve rather than the peak. The towing rating was missing from the announcement, and for a car sold on capability that omission is worth noting. Supply is the other open item. Tata, JLR's parent, is building cell capacity in Somerset through Agratas, while battery supply problems have already forced production stops at Stellantis plants in France, which we covered in the Sochaux and Rennes halt.
UK deliveries begin next year. The launch announcement contained no price and no date for continental Europe.
Source: https://electrek.co/2026/09/30/range-rover-sport-ev-orders-open-nearly-150000-378-miles-range/