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Welcome to Top Gear's Electric Awards 2025: the best EVs in the world right now

The electric class of 2025, in one handy list

Renault 5 Turbo 3E
  • Best EV hypercar: Lotus Evija

    Best EV hypercar: Lotus Evija

    ā€œJust look at it. Designed by a team led by the indefatigable Russell Carr, it has roughly the impact of a meteor that’s crash landed into Earth. Not bad for something the world’s had six years to get used toā€¦ā€

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  • EV we’re most looking forward to driving in 2025: Renault 5 Turbo 3E

    EV we’re most looking forward to driving in 2025: Renault 5 Turbo 3E

    ā€œLunacy is what the Renault 5 Turbo has always been about, its raison d’etre stretching back to the 1980 original is to shock, amaze, be unruly and make no senseā€¦ā€

  • Best EV design: Honda 0 Series

    Best EV design: Honda 0 Series

    ā€œIf these cars reach production exactly as they are, Honda won’t be winning any awards for its naming strategy. Thankfully, the 0 Saloon and 0 SUV prototypes unveiled at CES 2025 both look incredibleā€¦ā€

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  • Best EV SUV: Polestar 3

    Best EV SUV: Polestar 3

    ā€œThe standard Polestar 3 is technology turned up to 10. It’s a connected car that successfully channels cutting edge solutions, while also being a beautifully designed, clean driving and thoroughly useful SUV. But up here I need more, which must be why Polestar created the 3 Arctic Circleā€¦ā€

  • Best EV off roader: Mercedes-Benz G580e

    Best EV off roader: Mercedes-Benz G580e

    ā€œIt’s still a G. Looks like a G, feels like a G, shimmies and shudders like a G, it’s engineered like a G, off roads like a G. Actually, it off roads better than any G beforeā€¦ā€

  • Best luxury EV: Rolls-Royce Spectre Black Badge

    Best luxury EV: Rolls-Royce Spectre Black Badge

    ā€œSure, you’ve got a couple of modes to talk about with your pals over a quick bite at Nobu, but the essential Rolls-Royceness remains, now with added bragging rightsā€¦ā€

  • Best EV estate: BMW i5 Touring

    Best EV estate: BMW i5 Touring

    ā€œThe enormous breadth of smug ability served up by BMW’s vast i5 Touring means the rest frankly needn’t have botheredā€¦ā€

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  • Best bargain EV: Dacia Spring

    Best bargain EV: Dacia Spring

    ā€œThe Spring is actually surprisingly fun to drive. Not so much for passengers, there’s a lot of lean. It’s a bit like driving a modernised version of a 2CVā€¦ā€

  • Best EV crossover: Kia EV3

    Best EV crossover: Kia EV3

    ā€œI’m frankly staggered how the EV3 is taking all of this in its stride. The distance, the temperature, the relentless schedule, the impromptu off roading. No worries. No error messages or glitchesā€¦ā€

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  • Best EV super saloon: Porsche Taycan Turbo GT

    Best EV super saloon: Porsche Taycan Turbo GT

    ā€œIt’s as fast as you could feasibly want to goā€¦ā€

  • Best seven seat EV: Hyundai Ioniq 9

    Best seven seat EV: Hyundai Ioniq 9

    ā€œThe Ioniq 9 is surprisingly adroit. This is an upmarket play from Hyundaiā€¦ā€

  • Best compact EV: Renault 5

    Best compact EV: Renault 5

    ā€œDown a road it has a harmony and neatness of motion. The damping is fluid and mature. So you feel confident working it hard. It’s a sophisticated carā€¦ā€

  • Electric car of the year: Renault 4

    Electric car of the year: Renault 4

    ā€œAll this classic car stuff needn’t matter if you don’t care about car design history or cultural resonance. The new Renault 4 is a smart little modern car in itself, recognisably different from the waves of generic looking stuff washing up in dealers all over the country.

    ā€œIn the EV age, design maters more and moreā€¦ā€

    For the full stories on Top Gear’s best electric cars of 2025, pick up a copy of Top Gear magazine, out now

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