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Originally Posted by roastpuff
Does anyone have experience with the Cayenne E-Hybrid? Curious about the PHEV system performance in general. If you guys have towing experience with it that would even be better.
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Originally Posted by roastpuff
Open trailer with S2000 is what I want to tow. Need about 5500-6000lbs capacity on the safe side. Cayenne listed at 7700lbs.
Wife wants: SUV, hybrid - no trucks allowed, no domestics allowed, "not too big" whatever that means.
I want: towing, decent driving experience. It basically came down to the Cayenne hybrid or the X5 hybrid, and she thinks the X5 size is too large.
EDIT: This will also be our "daily" car so strictly 2 cars, I can't store another vehicle as the "tow" truck or whatever.
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Cayenne is the same size/class as the X5. I cross shopped both and we bought a X5 45e.
It's extremely hard to find the correct answer for towing but the 45e tows 5700lbs iirc. The regular X5 tows something like 7500lbs. I would not be surprised if the Cayenne E tows less so you'll have to do your research.
People do tow with these things, but if you are going to do it regularly, just buy the regular gasser and forgo the hybrid.
The Cayenne E and X5 45/50e iirc uses the same Bosch system and paired with their own batteries and subsystems. Ask away cause I can probably answer a lot of your questions.