Best Electric Cars 2023 (and the ones to avoid) - Top 10 | What Car? 

In amongst this line up I understand the choices.... But I would like to see a Top Ten list based around good BEV's that are available, based on their waiting list. Any vehicle that is NOT available within 6 months should automatically be crossed off the list.

The best car is around £61000. Great value! Where does the presenter live?

would be handy sometime to find out who are prepared to Insure and who are not -- very important to provisional buyers !

The most expensive cars are the best. Thats helpful what is the point .

Surprised to not see the Kia e Niro listed here

For its physical size and length, I would have expected a much bigger battery in the ID Buzz to give it a range in the 350 - 400 miles.

I have an ioniq 5 since last May with almost 30000km on the counter. I have faced no problems at all, charging with home solar panels , no road tax, no oil change. Even though the waiting list is long having one, is both a driving delight and an economic choice

I definitely like the look of the GV60

A bit disappointed that there is no mention in these reviews on battery efficiency/miles per KWH. Had they petrol/diesel then we would have had MPG figures? Battery efficiency is a important as range and some 'premium' makes have poor miles per KWH.

I have been driving a Renault Zoe for the last two years and, although I really enjoy it, comes to the end of its lease in July. I’m looking for a vehicle in which I can camp. What do you think of the Vauxhall Combo estate car that Wheelhome convert to a camper?

A £62k electric van with windows. Really?

My village has had 2 power cuts in the last month! One lasted 24 hours and we are not into winter yet. The only real alternative to IC vehicles for us would be a hybrid until a proper charging infrastructure is in place on a reliable grid.

The pricing of all of these cars says it all about electric cars at the moment, they still far too expensive for the mainstream.

What is the name of the song that is used in the background? Can someone help? 😍

Comprehensive enough 'guide', thank you.

We all know that weather conditions etc have a big effect on efficiency. This makes it extremely hard to use your excellent tests to compare one 6-monthly winter test with another. You really should try to include a Reference EV in there, so when this particular Reference EV does similar efficiency in 2 of your tests one year apart, we'll know that it's fair to compare all the cars in both tests with each other. And if the results are 10% different thanks to weather differences, we can make our own judgement/guess about this for the other cars. I would like to suggest that you always include an Ioniq 38, for several reasons. It's a typical size for a small family hatchback, which is a very popular type of car in UK especially. Many of us will be looking to buy 2nd hand, and those on a tighter budget will obvs be more likely to be avoiding higher cost of brand new, and also looking for least electricity costs when topping up. It's also known to be extremely efficient, especially in winter, and it's a great example fop how an EV in this category should perform. It would be good to highlight just how poor the efficiency of some EVs is, especially in the smaller car categories. You have some efficient EVs in the larger size here, Genesis is not bad, Tesla Y is excellent, but nothing at all that's really efficient in the smaller cars. While you're at it, why not also include an Ioniq 6 with 18" rims (even if you have to import them from Korea specially - n/a in UK for some daft reason) as a Reference EV for larger saloons/hatchbacks. Oh, and can you please stop tailgating/slip-streaming quite so much? You should leave a lot of car-lengths between each vehicle so you know that turbulence from the car in front isn't distorting the figures. Thank you!

Not many people may have heard of it, but the BYD ATTO 3 is a brilliant little EV ! (IMO)

@9:28 Glad that I will buy a fully loaded Ora Funky Cat anyway.

The Nissan Leaf has got to be on the list of worst cars, it has limited range and it can't use Tesla Superchargers. I'd also include the Mazda MX-30 with just 124 claimed range.

One area the Ora shines is interior presentation - It's a far nicer place to be than the MG4's at least.

What about the BYD line of EV's?

Byd is excellent I have an atto3 And will order a byd seal next

BYD will join you soon also.

What about the ioniq 6 or the arya?

No advertising money means no soup for you Tesla🤣 What a joke I mean I love all EV's but lets put them up there head to head as you did in your nicely done cold and hot weather EV review. It was clear that Tesla were the best in both of those tests.

Does this rating consider factor of dependability?

You forgot the mg5 estate as a taxi driver it’s hands down the best car I’ve ever had 😍

The ora cat was supposed to come to the uk for a price of £26000 with a range of 250 miles but that didn't happen they shot themselves in the foot with a much high price and a shorter range!

Considering all the negative videos released rubbishing EVs the petroleum industry is crapping itself about the future WITHOUT them!

How does the BYD atto3 stack up, especially against the mg4?

Which of these cars are suitable for nigerian use and at affordable price

I don't get the Tesla Model 3 fanboi boast about practicality. It has a boot, not a batchack and thus is fatally flawed. If Herr Musk has released the Model 3 as a hatch ack I could understand the hype. I was interested in the MG4 but the dealer network is awful so I have decided to give that a miss. Instead I chose a used ID.3 58kWh. Does everything we want, isn't a huge bloaty blob and is a lot cheaper to run than an equivalent Golf.

Where is Mercedes EQS ?? 🧐

Significantly more expensive than an equivalent petrol vehicle, so for the same money you have to go down market, reduce the trim level, or buy used. Charging is still a worry, so overall it's not compelling enough if I'm spending my own hard earned cash...yet!

Byd the best and most selling car in the world is not even mentioned 😢

For me the best value for money electric car is Tesla Y Long Range. I am driving one since January 2023 and since my first drive I am in love with it. It is quiet, has superb acceleration, has intuitive and easy to use media, enormous space for luggage and very decent range.

No Jeep Avenger on the "what to look out for" list, given the rave reviews it's had so far?

You should be talking about there’s Not enough Working public chargers . If we are to believe the report in the Times last week stating there is only 30 ev to a charger and that Failed the target of 300K public chargers by 2020 . Unless you have Home charging then people have charging problems . Coz what you Stated about the Ionic 5 and the Already range improvement probably the Most Important part of an EV ,is best imo wait till 2030 where we will see Any New Batteries Tech etc and How many public chargers . At the moment Tesla is still best EV simply coz they understood there’s No point making a EV without charging points and they took the Brave decision to install chargers them selfs instead of Relying on governments or companies installing them …as we can see .

What about the EQE SUV?

MG4 @ £26000 might be cheap for those on a good salary but a family man with 3 kids , mortgage rates going up and everything else going up isn't an option and most will just buy a reasonably priced petrol/ diesel car as a family car.

Is there a reason why Porsche Taycan isn't on this list?

I like the Cadillac escalade ESV from 2020 for seeing that it has a Cadillac escalade ESV Electric like the 2020 one day because this is a my favorite Car brand. 😢

I like Nio ET7

Tesla doesn’t advertise in their magazine. That the worlds best selling EV, the Tesla model Y, doesn’t appear in their top 10 is entirely unrelated…..

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Notable absence of the Kia Niro EV in this line-up. A very efficient EV. Any thoughts as to why?

No Ariya? The Auto Express EV of the year?

VW buzz Price ?

Just bought Renault Megan e tech, so far brilliant. Your thoughts?

And this is the problem any half decent electric car with descent range and finish is above £40k and this in the middle of a cost of living crisis

Mad list, you drunk ?! 😂😂

Good luck with getting a Buzz. My boss ordered his last May ( yes 2022) and VW have told him September 2023. So, its ca r you cant get thats best....................... great..............

MG4 all the way an I'm at 0:22

Do people know thet need to change the battery after 6 years whoch cost a lot

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What about Smart #1?

Model Y ,best selling car in many countries and ignored???

What sort of dealership support network is there for Tesla??? Even MG has a better network. Who is gonna service your Tesla???

Which of these cars is suitable for a cross Euro jaunt which can keep time with a petrol powered car? Also, are there any here that could cross Death Valley Nevada, Mongolian desert or Western Australia without the death of its occupants? Can any of these carry an additional battery in case of zero charging points similar to carrying an extra 25 litres or so petrol/ diesel for remote areas?

My vote goes to MG4, what an amazing car!

The environmental EV without electric windows, without central locking, without keyless ignition, without the unnecessity. Unfortunately people are too far gone to appreciate fact

I knew this was just Vw advertising when you put a nice looking expensive bus ahead of more reasonably priced metal. The range on that is buzz just doesn’t cut it. Range isn’t everything, but it counts … a lot. I quite like the design but the interior materials just will not hold up to my kids 😂

Best: *BMW i3s!*

I am very surprised the VW buzz is the absolute worst ev I have tried and I own EV and have driven every available EV in Sweden. Such a response and review to me states that the report is biased and the car reporters are no longer reliable.

I think your list may be backwards....

But do these companies not all buy most of the batteries and other essential parts for EVs from the same manufacturers? Because EV companies don't design their own electric batteries etc. So apart from the shell and interior being different, what makes any of these cars stand out from their competitors when they are buying off the shelf electric parts? Surely petrol heads bought cars from a specific brand, because they had all developed their engines differently, had different horse power, different power settings, different sounds, they has unique engine features, they looked different etc, etc. You may as well have a milk float for all the difference these "luxury" cars will be from each other at the base level. It's business suicide for any company that falls in line with this agenda. Not to mention there's not enough precious metals on the planet to sustain this. Strip mining whole areas, cutting down large areas of trees to put wind farms up and large, rare birds of prey dying due to wind turbines compared to a bore whole in the ground, taking up very little space. I know in reality which has the least impact on the environment. But EVs aren't charged using purely wind and solar power are they, so not really green. Nothing says I support child slavery like an EV.

Interesting line up - and then you blew your credibility by making the ID Buzz the No.1. Grossly overpriced overrated and a great example of style over substance.

Where is the new BMW ix1 ? It has received rave reviews.

what's the point in comparing cars that are so different from each other?! It proves that 'electric' is still just a segment

Where is Geometry C ?

No mention of MINI…..

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Genesis GV looks rather naff design exterior and even interior (rather than 'exquisite'). Lacklustre performance as well. Pay a lot for plush materials.

Pretty pointless list since it is largely just most expensive is best. Not a single b segment EV got represented here and only 1 C. Who was this list for?

MG4?

Best is Chinese EVs for sure

No Nissan even mentioned? Pioneer of EL cars...

🤣🤣🤣 Good review until you mentioned the ID-Buzz, a joke of a car from your sponsor ... SO UNDERHAND!

Where is the Megane E-Tech and the Nissan Ariya and KIA Niro. The Buzz is a well designed car with a terrible information system, never number one.

Electric shock !!! The UK could be one bright spot due to the introduction of the zero emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate. From January, just over a fifth of vehicles sold must be electric, with the target expected to hit 80% by 2030.

Bro actually said ❌coupe ✅coupe-ey

Absolute bs having the vw buzz at no 1. Used to think you guys knew what you were talking about . No longer.

They are still to Expensive

The id buzz is overrated/ overpriced and pointless - it’s an outdated mini van that happens to be a ev. And mini van better at half the price

Mercedes builds better EVs than VW, Porsche and BMW. Very misleading to miss out of them entirely!

Bizarre. I had a Model 3 for 3 years, and now have a Model Y. Loved the 3, but the Y is better in every practical way apart from outright performance and handling which What Car don't usually care about very much (unlike Evo, TG, Car etc) so no idea why the Y doesn't even make it into the top 10. It's the best selling EV and in the top 10 for worldwide sales so that many people cant be wrong. ID Buzz is lipstick on a pig (MEB platform).

All huge SUVs and ridiculously expensive! Where are the good ev hatchbacks? Why still no golf sized decent ev?

ID Buzz wins? I didn't even have it on the list. VWs expensive, poorly spec'd, low mileage ID range is a joke and the worst of the lot wins... OK interesting. Don't get me wrong, I like the look of it and the retro modern style appeals. But the range, the price, the lack of latest EV tech, the charging speed, means it's beaten on paper by so many big and medium EVs.

Silly list 😂

None of them, at any price, will get me from Peterborough to Gloucester and back, in the real World, without stopping for a charge. Did it this weekend in my RSQ3 and still had over 110 miles left in the tank. A Car magazine multi EV winter range test showed none of the cars got within 100 miles of their WLTP range. The iD Buzz achieved 160 miles on a full charge........not good for a vehicle marketed as a tourer.

#1 is a joke, right?😂

The best EV options is the same as saying. The best meal I've found in a bin.

The Model 3 looks dated now. The newer EVs look better.

BUT....ffs what proportion of the population can afford to pay £61K for your No.1 car?

MG

What about the children mining in DR Congo and the pollution we are doing to the world just making the batteries . Now we are hearing about the pollution at the new battery materials mine in the USA?

I don wanna adult :c

Can anyone please convince me how most people are going to buy an electric car when they cost upwards of 30,000?

You can still buy houses for the price of these and they’re likely to go up in value rather than way down 😅

You might be enthusiastic about how good these cars are but the elephant in the room is the cost. These cars will never be bought by average everyday drivers, these are luxury cars that will be out of reach of most buyers. Even the MG 4 is too expensive for most buyers.