Profitable the electrical SUV race isn’t nearly vary and efficiency. Simply as essential is how the cabin feels when you’re inside. BMW and Porsche take very completely different approaches with the iX3 and the upcoming Cayenne EV, and people decisions say quite a bit about the place every model sees the way forward for luxurious. The iX3 leans into BMW’s evolving philosophy of fewer screens and extra intuitive interplay, whereas Porsche embraces a tech-forward cabin with a dizzying array of screens that also carries acquainted model hallmarks.
Regardless of the Cayenne EV being an enormous step for Porsche, the inside, in some ways, feels acquainted to those that’ve sat in a Porsche earlier than. The steering wheel form is acquainted, and supplies look to be high notch as all the time. The chronometer atop the gauge cluster is almost anachronistic within the in any other case very trendy cabin. A panoramic glass roof overhead ensures the cabin feels correctly luxurious, and ambient lighting is kind of in all places. Like with BMW, most capabilities will be accessed no less than through display screen and voice, with some capabilities having bodily redundancies. Porsche says the Cayenne EV gives a max of 56 cubic toes (1,586 liters) of cargo area. Regardless of the Cayenne, traditionally, being bigger than the X3, the iX3 gives 61.8 cubic toes (1,750 liters). Porsche additional claims 13 inside colour mixtures, which is probably going greater than BMW will provide on the iX3. Nonetheless, with choices like a inexperienced inside within the works, they won’t be fairly as attention-grabbing.
Expertise: BMW iX3 vs. Porsche Cayenne EV
Since we don’t get an important have a look at the seats or cargo space but, we’re primarily left to actually ruminate on the stark distinction between Porsche’s and BMW’s strategy in probably the most essential, and divisive, areas regarding automotive inside design: screens. Whereas BMW has moved away from the multi-screen look, Porsche has taken a maybe extra mainstream strategy. The Cayenne EV is a display screen wonderland, with a minimum of 4 screens on the driver’s (and passenger’s) fingertips. One similarity with BMW is the presence of a handful of bodily buttons. Not like the BMW, Porsche appears to go away a couple of actual buttons on the steering wheel, too. Porsche additionally introduces “Temper Modes,” which largely mirror how BMW’s driving modes have shifted into “My Modes.” Primarily, these configure the cabin lights, stereo, and air flow settings to a preset method that channels how the driving force is feeling on the time.
In fact, there’s additionally an elephant within the room: worth. BMW’s iX3 begins from “underneath $60,000.” We don’t but know what Porsche asks for the Cayenne EV, which is unsurprising contemplating the marque hasn’t even absolutely revealed the Cayenne EV’s exterior. However we’re hazarding a guess that the Cayenne EV gained’t go away the showroom ground for a lot lower than six figures. In spite of everything, the Macan EV begins at $83,950, practically $20,000 greater than its gas-powered sibling commanded. An ordinary Cayenne begins at $88,800. We stay up for see how the Cayenne EV compares to the iX3 in different areas as extra info trickles out forward of its mid-2026 sale date.
