8/10 Cayenne SUV lands in the face of significant headwinds for the German carmaker, which recently saw operating profit collapse by 92.7 percent owing partly to a rethink of its electrification strategy. Instead of pursuing an all-electric future driven by its Taycan and Macan vehicles, then bolstered by battery-powered variants of the Cayman, Boxster, and Cayenne—plus, presumably, an eventual electric 911—Porsche is taking an eye-wateringly expensive detour. As fellow embattled carmakers pressure the European Union into relaxing rules designed to end the production of new internal-combustion cars by 2035, Porsche is instead hedging its bets. Whereas the new Macan launched in 2024 is offered only as a full-EV, Porsche will follow up the new electric Cayenne with plug-in hybrid and gasoline variants, too—a move it says will ensure engine production well into the next decade. Those will be facelifts to the current Cayenne, but the electric model is all-new.…