It wasn’t long ago that the acceleration of an EV was anything but electrifying. Heavy lead-acid batteries and weedy motors made the performance more milk float than muscle car. Yet advances in technology mean that, these days, going as quickly as possible demands battery power and EVs now have the upper hand over internal combustion.
Here, we look at 14 of the fastest-accelerating electric models, as claimed by the maker, from stuff that you can drive out of the showroom today, through to those that are due to arrive in the coming months and years.
Very closely related to the Porsche Taycan, Audi’s most powerful version of it’s e-tron GT is also similarly quick. Using the same twin motor system and trick two-speed transmission, the RS can deploy an overboost 637bhp (power is normally 590bhp) to deliver a shatteringly fast 3.1 seconds 0-60mph time. That’s not quite as fast as the Porsche (it’s also limited to 155mph all out), but it’s enough for this restful and refined four-seater to dust most internal combustion-engined supercars. A feat that’s all the more incredible when you realise it weighs a hefty 2347kg.
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The horse power race has been ridiculous for years but, the rise of EVs has taken it to a whole new level of stupid, epecially in fast saloons and SUVs. What exactly, is the point of a 7-seat SUV that can do 0-60 in under 3 seconds?
To be sure there are those who think one-dimensionally,
With EV the ratio between exploiting its performance and the rate of battery depeltion is disproportionate.
This is an unresolved issue brushed aside whereas headline performance figures make headlines.
What a bore, please...
I've never seen an article about Bugatti Chiron telling us how many miles you can do before it runs out of fuel, if you floor it. It's irrelevant.
The big difference is that there are numerous ICE vehicles that the average man in the street could easily afford to buy. If and when the manufacturers start to produce even a handful of modest, properly affordable, practical electric vehicles then I might show a bit of interest in what the technology can achieve much further up the market.