Costs for an electrified Porsche like the Taycan Cross Turismo are a story in two parts. Buying it will – inevitably – be a very expensive process, with even the entry level version costing just shy of £90,000 before you hit the extensive options list. Put it this way, if your Taycan Cross Turismo leaves the showroom with a bottom line price under £100,000 you’ve got off very lightly indeed. And you can forget any government plug-in car grant at this level.

But fear not. If you can run your Cross Turismo as a company car you’ll be saving more than the monthly lease in Benefit In Kind alone compared with an equivalent petrol powered Panamera Sport Turismo, thanks to the nominal tax in comparison with its gas guzzling brother. True, the Taycan has an equivalent appetite for power to charge its massive 93.4kWh battery (standard on this model) but, if you’re smart with your home charging, it will cost pennies to run in comparison with an equivalently fast or prestigious saloon or SUV powered on petrol or diesel. Entry to this club is expensive but, to stretch the analogy, once you’re inside you’ll find the drinks are pretty much free.