Range Rover Sport Electric: Orders Are Open. What It Means For Company Car Drivers

Range Rover opened orders for the Range Rover Sport Electric today, 30 September 2026. It is the first fully electric Range Rover Sport, built in Solihull alongside the plug-in hybrid, petrol and diesel versions, with up to 378 miles of WLTP range and a 10–80% rapid charge in around 22 minutes. For a company car driver the bigger story is tax: in 2026/27 an electric car is taxed at 4% of its P11D value, against 37% for a car in the top CO2 band. On a six-figure car that gap runs to thousands of pounds a year. Here is what has been confirmed, how it compares with the Range Rover Electric, and what to check before you order.

What Range Rover has confirmed

• Range: up to 378 miles WLTP from a 118.5kWh battery, with a real-world estimate of up to 333 miles.
• Charging: 800-volt architecture. At a rapid DC charger it can add up to 136 miles in about 10 minutes, or charge from 10% to 80% in around 22 minutes, when charging at its maximum rate.
• Performance: two 260kW motors give up to 550PS and 850Nm, and 0–60mph in as little as 4.3 seconds in Dynamic Launch Mode. Range Rover's notes also refer to a 450PS version.
• Capability: wading depth of up to 900mm and climbs of up to 45 degrees, according to Range Rover.
• Specifications: Dynamic SE, Dynamic HSE, Autobiography and First Edition.
• Battery warranty: eight years or 100,000 miles.

Range Rover has not published a UK delivery date. Today its UK website lists the electric-only First Edition from £126,290. Prices for the other electric versions should be checked against the current price list before you commit.

How it compares with the Range Rover Electric

The two cars share their battery size and headline outputs. Range Rover says the Sport has a 61% stiffer body and a 73mm lower centre of gravity than the Range Rover Sport plug-in hybrids, and a faster torque response than the Range Rover Electric. All range and charging figures are the manufacturer's, and what you see day to day will depend on the version, wheels, weather, speed and load.

What it means for company car tax

Company car tax is worked out from the car's P11D value and a percentage set by its CO2 emissions and, for plug-in hybrids, its electric range. The Range Rover Sport now comes as an electric car, a plug-in hybrid and in petrol and diesel versions, so the choice of powertrain decides which row of the table you are on.

Check the CO2 figure and electric range of the exact version you are quoted, because they decide its band. From April 2028 every car at 1–50g/km moves to a flat 18%, whatever its electric range. Our 2028 plug-in hybrid change article explains what that means for a hybrid ordered now.

A worked example, using a P11D value of £100,000 for illustration, in 2026/27:

• Electric at 4%: a benefit of £4,000. A 40% taxpayer pays £1,600 a year, and the employer pays £600 in Class 1A National Insurance at 15%.
• Top band at 37%: a benefit of £37,000. A 40% taxpayer pays £14,800 a year, and the employer pays £5,550 in Class 1A National Insurance.

That is £13,200 a year less personal tax for the driver in this example, and £4,950 less National Insurance for the business. Our company car tax guide has every band to 2030.

Vehicle tax and the costs still to come

• Expensive Car Supplement: an electric car with a list price over £50,000 pays an extra £440 a year for five years, from the second time it is taxed. Every electric Range Rover Sport is above that line. Read how the £50,000 threshold works. On contract hire the funder usually taxes the car and recovers the cost through the rental.
• Pay-per-mile tax from April 2028: electric cars are due to pay 3p a mile under eVED, on top of vehicle tax. It is proposed and not yet law. A three or four-year lease starting now would be on the road when it begins: what eVED means on a lease.
• Charging at home: VAT on household electricity in Great Britain falls to 0% from tomorrow, 1 October 2026, until 31 March 2027.

What to check before you order

• Delivery timing. No UK delivery date has been published. If a current agreement ends soon, plan the handover before you commit.
• Your real annual mileage. It sets the contract mileage and, from April 2028, the eVED charge.
• Charging. Home or workplace charging makes the most of the running-cost case. If most of your miles are long motorway runs, map the rapid chargers on your usual routes.
• Specification. Options raise the P11D value and therefore the tax. Ask for the exact CO2 figure, electric range and list price of the car you are quoted.
• VAT. A VAT-registered business leasing a car with private use can normally recover 50% of the VAT on the rental.

If you want to compare the Range Rover Sport Electric with a plug-in hybrid or diesel on your own mileage and term, call the team on 01752 429950 or request a callback. You can also browse Range Rover Sport leasing, prestige car leasing and business car leasing.

Sources: JLR press release, Range Rover Sport Electric: tuned for visceral dynamism, 30 September 2026; Range Rover UK website, Range Rover Sport models and specifications, checked 30 September 2026; HMRC, Work out the appropriate percentage for company car benefits (480: Appendix 2); HMRC, Rates and thresholds for employers 2026 to 2027; GOV.UK, Vehicle tax rates. Manufacturer figures may change before delivery. Tax treatment depends on individual circumstances and may change. This is general information, not tax advice. Hero image: JLR.

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Reviewed by Stacey Smith, Brand Director, Intelligent Vehicle Finance. Last updated: September 2026.