Greetings from Italy, where I’m getting an early look at a thing I’ll tell you all about soon enough. I hopped down here from Munich, where I was getting a little go behind the wheel of a Porsche I likewise can’t tell you much about.

I can at least say it was the new electric Cayenne Coupe, Porsche’s 1,139-horsepower super-SUV that seats five in superb comfort before scrambling their brains by accelerating from zero to 60 mph in 2.4 seconds. More on that soon enough.

What can I tell you about? A certain Volvo. It’s the new EX60, the all-electric counterpart to the brand’s most successful SUV in the United States. I spent a few days wheeling a few different flavors of the all-new machine around the greater Barcelona region, and I was left generally impressed.

The EX60 is a calm and extremely competent SUV, whether you go for the lower-spec, 369-hp, single-motor P6 trim or dial it up to the 503-hp P10 trim. There’s even more coming, with a 670-hp P12 model for the future.

That’ll be the longest-range version as well, with Volvo promising something in the area of 400 miles on a charge. Sadly the other two come up quite a bit short of that: 320 miles for the P10 and 307 miles for the P6.

That’s honestly plenty of range, but with BMW’s iX3 hitting dealers soon doing 434 miles on a charge and offering similar performance as the P10 at a lower price, I fear many cross-shoppers will tend towards the Bavarian option. Those who select the Swedish route, though, I don’t think will be disappointed.

That’s just the highlights. You can read my full impressions of the SUV here:

That’s all from me this week. Next time, I’ll have all the details on the Italian and German reasons for this week-long European sojourn. And, with any luck, I’ll be writing from somewhere a bit more domestic.