The EV revolution has been in full swing for a number of years, with practically all automakers transitioning their automobiles. What began years in the past as an trade that aimed to construct environment friendly each day commuters is now constructing a few of the fastest, most powerful vehicles in the world. While some are launching new electric cars brimming with state-of-the-art options, different automakers are phasing out their gasoline engines to create space for the brand new EV variations.

In an trade which is altering by the day, the quickest and strongest EVs are being dethroned with trendy improvements. Going into 2024, we have already got a variety of electrical supercars which have a high pace of greater than 200 mph, and the 0-60 mph time retains lowering on this aggressive phase. Tesla is often credited for bringing the electric revolution into the mainstream automotive trade, and its vehicles just like the Roadster and Model S Plaid have set pace data. However, with new and outdated gamers partaking within the phase, all such data have both already been damaged or appear to be beneath menace.

Such efficiency comes at a worth, typically within the ballpark of over one million {dollars}. But it’s competitions of this nature that pave the way in which for fixed innovation, and the largest beneficiary is the shopper. In this checklist, we depend down the quickest electrical vehicles from 2023.

UPDATE: 2024/03/18 19:00 EST BY VEDANT OJHA

The article has been up to date to replicate the newest rankings of the quickest electrical vehicles. A brand new electrical tremendous/hypercar zips its method onto the checklist: the newly launched Drako Dragon, becoming a member of its sooner sibling the Drako GTE. The quickest electrical race automobile, McMurtry Spéirling, will not be added to the checklist regardless of being a record-breaker, because it is not a street-legal manufacturing automobile (a minimum of not but, as of March 2024).

In order to provide the latest and correct info potential, the information used to compile this text was sourced from numerous producer web sites and different authoritative sources, together with the respective automaker’s web site, Car and Driver, and MotorTrend. The fashions you see right here have been ranked by their high pace from highest to lowest.

TLDR: Fastest Electric Cars

1 Rimac Nevera

Top Speed: 258 mph

After establishing the file in 2022, the Rimac Nevera remains the world’s fastest electric car to today. The file of a high pace of 258 miles-per-hour was achieved on the Automotive Testing Papenburg observe in Germany, with Miro Zrnčević, Rimac’s chief take a look at and growth driver, behind the wheel.

As if that wasn’t sufficient to announce this Croatian-built electrical supercar onto the scene, the Nevera set 23 world records in a single day in 2023. Boasting a 0 to 60 mph dash in a mere 1.5 seconds, it’s powered by 4 electrical motors that ship a mixed 1,914 horses and logic-defying 1,741 pound-feet of torque.

Rimac Nevera Specifications

(Specs sourced from Rimac)

With manufacturing restricted to solely a scarce 150 items, the Rimac Nevera has a price ticket of round $2.2 million, which makes it a lot rarer than we would desire a automobile of such caliber to be. For the 2024 mannequin yr, Rimac has launched a Nevera Time Attack model costing over $3 million however manufacturing is restricted to only a dozen.

2 Aspark Owl

Top Speed: 257 mph

Japan’s first full-electric hypercar ever, the Aspark Owl, is an electrifying pressure to be reckoned with. Aspark claims the Owl is the ‘fastest-accelerating car in the world’, with a whopping 1,980 horsepower produced by 4 electrical motors. To put it in context, that’s practically twice the facility of a Formula 1 automobile.

Built on a carbon fiber chassis that weighs solely 264.5 kilos, the Owl is powered by 4 everlasting magnet synchronous motors that ship a whopping 1,475 pound-feet of torque. The electrical supercar runs from 0 to 60 mph in 1.72 seconds and may hit a high pace of 257 mph, and all this while delivering a range of 280 miles.

Aspark Owl Specifications

(Specs sourced from Aspark)

A price ticket of $4.2 million makes the Aspark Owl one of the costly electrical hypercars on this planet. And, its resolution to construct solely 50 examples makes it even rarer. With 200 kW 800V quick charging, the Owl takes solely about 40 minutes to cost to the utmost.

3 Tesla Roadster

Top Speed: 250+ MPH

Tesla’s first attempt at the electric market was the Roadster, when the primary era arrived in 2008. But it was by no means the superb supercar the American automaker hoped it will be. Later, the second era of the Roadster was introduced in 2017, which a minimum of on paper, appears to match Tesla’s ambition for this mannequin.

Although the horsepower isn’t revealed, the electrical automobile will make 7,376 pound-feet of torque at wheels, because of the three electrical motors – two on the rear axle and one on the entrance. This will guarantee the Roadster launches from 0 to 60 mph in only 1.9 seconds, and if that appears like a very long time, the optionally available SpaceX package deal Roadster will carry out the identical feat in 1.1 seconds.

Tesla Roadster (2nd Gen) Specifications

(Specs sourced from Tesla)

The new Roadster 2.0 was purported to go on sale a very long time in the past, however a spread of issues together with the pandemic and provide chain issues delayed it by fairly a number of years. Elon Musk guarantees 2023 would be the yr, however as of March 2024, the wait continues.

4 Lotus Evija

Top Speed: 218 MPH

The electrification of the auto trade is worldwide. After seeing the first-ever Japanese and Croatian electrical hypercars, now we have the first British all-electric hypercar, the Lotus Evija. Powered by 4 electrical motors – one positioned on every wheel – the Evija’s powertrain delivers a mixed 1,973 horses and 1,257 pound-feet of torque.

The all-wheel-drive supercar can hit 62 mph in beneath three seconds, with an electronically restricted high pace of 218 mph. Lotus is focusing on a spread on a full cost of 250 miles, though that is primarily based on the WLTP cycle and can realistically be decrease by EPA requirements. To add to its feats, the Lotus Evija is the lightest hypercar on this planet with a curb weight of three,704 kilos.

Lotus Evija Specifications

(Specs sourced from Lotus)

Built out of light-weight carbon fiber, the Evija is lighter and extra {powerful} than the Rimac Nevera, however nonetheless slower as compared. But make no mistake, at over $2 million and only 130 units in production, the Lotus Evija is among the most costly vehicles on this planet, however it’s additionally one of the {powerful}.

5 Pininfarina Battista

Top Speed: 217 MPH

The Pininfarina Battista wants no presentation: it’s one of the best-looking, fastest, and most powerful electric cars in the world. This Italian hypercar boasts a 0 to 62 MPH dash time of 1.86 seconds, and to place that into perspective, it’s sooner than an F-22 fighter jet which accelerates from 0-60 mph in 2.15 seconds.

Automobili Pininfarina claims the Battista delivers a level of performance that is unachievable in any road-legal sports car with an inside combustion engine. With a robust 120 kWh battery and 4 motors sending energy to every particular person wheel, Battista produces 1,900 horses and round 1,725 pound-feet of torque.

Pininfarina Battista Specifications

(Specs sourced from Pininfarina)

Pininfarina claims a high pace of 217 mph for the Battista. But curiously, Renuka Kirpalani, the Indian Motorsports champion and Consulting Editor for Autocar India pushed the Battista up to a top speed of 222 mph in March 2023. With solely 150 copies, every priced at $2.2 million, this mind-melting hypercar has a cost time from 20- to 80-percent in lower than 22.5 minutes on a high-power DC charger.

6 Drako GTE

Top Speed: 206 MPH

It was in 2019 when Drako Motors, the hypercar producer primarily based in San Jose, California, launched the Drako GTE, an all-electric sedan with a top speed of 206 mph. Powered by 4 particular person magnet hybrid synchronous motors (225 kW every) that ship a mixed 1,200 horsepower, the GTE is sort of as {powerful} because the Lucid Air Sapphire.

The Drako GTE’s 90-kWh battery pack can provide as much as 1,800 amps constantly, and as much as 2,200 peak amps. The Drako GTE boasts a logic-defying torque of 6,490 pound-feet, and is a world record holder at the Corkscrew Hillclimb with a blistering time of 37.0 seconds.

Drako GTE Specifications

(Specs sourced from Drako)

The GTE is Drako’s first manufacturing automobile and was joined late in 2022 by the Dragon hyper-luxury SUV which additionally made it to this checklist. With the GTE’s manufacturing restricted to solely 25 items, it is among the rarest and most costly EVs in the marketplace, with the price of proudly owning one beginning at $1.2 million.

7 Lucid Air Sapphire

Top Speed: 205 mph

Lucid announced the Air back in 2020, and the top-of-the-line mannequin, the Sapphire, arrived two years later at Monterey Car Week. While the bottom Lucid Air delivers “only” 480 horsepower, for the Sapphire, Lucid took issues to extremes. The EV is powered by the corporate’s most superior trimotor powertrain but, which delivers a mixed 1,234 horsepower and 1,430 pound-feet of torque.

The mannequin was constructed with the intention of competing with the likes of the Tesla Model S Plaid, so the Sapphire goes from 0 to 60 mph in simply 1.89 seconds (0.1 seconds sooner than the Plaid) and as much as a high pace of 205 mph (5 mph greater than the Plaid).

Lucid Air Sapphire Specifications

(Specs sourced from Lucid)

Like practically all of the vehicles on this checklist to date, the Lucid Air Sapphire is in-built restricted numbers, and the 2024 model has a starting price of $249,000. Air Sapphire has an EPA-estimated vary of 427 miles on a single cost, in addition to an effectivity of three.61 mi/kWh, representing a rare fusion of capabilities.

8 Maserati GranTurismo Folgore

Top Speed: 202 MPH

At the tip of 2022, Maserati unveiled the new generation GranTurismo, together with its first-ever all-electric sports activities trim, launched with the gasoline-powered fashions. What’s fascinating is that each one of Maserati’s EVs will bear the Folgore moniker, which implies “lightning” in Italian.

The GranTurismo Folgore is powered by a trio of electrical motors that route up to 761 horsepower and 995 pound-feet of torque to all four wheels. According to Maserati, the automobile has a 0 to 60 mph time of two.7 seconds, and may attain a high pace of 202 mph. It’s most-powerful gasoline counterpart gives solely 543 horses.

Maserati GranTurismo Folgore Specifications

(Specs sourced from Maserati)

Powered by a 92.5-kWh battery pack, it gives a spread of round 240 miles, and advantages from quick charging speeds too. Maserati claims the Folgore can add as much as 60 miles in solely 5 minutes when charged at as much as a 270-kW connection. With a price ticket of $215,000, it was anticipated to go on sale within the fall of 2023, however as of March 2024, we’re but to see it out within the open.

9 Tesla Model S Plaid

Top Speed: 200 MPH

Who would have thought that the automobile that after was the quickest EV on this planet, the Tesla Model S Plaid, would now be on the backside? But, with fixed innovation, it’s clear that the large Tesla faces stiff competitors.

Powered by three mighty electrical motors, two within the again and one up entrance producing a complete of 1,020 horsepower and 1,050 pound-feet of torque, the Model S Plaid remains an electric vehicle that can hit more than 200 mph, when totally outfitted. It can dash to 60 mph from a standstill in 1.99 seconds, which makes it one of many quickest electrical sedans you’ll be able to presently purchase.

Tesla Model S Plaid Specifications

(Specs sourced from Tesla)

With as much as 402 miles of estimated vary and entry to Tesla’s mighty quick charging community, the Model S Plaid stands as probably the most sensible and obtainable automobile on this checklist, for a median buyer. Tesla slashed costs closely in 2024, and so, with a starting price of $89,990, the Model S Plaid is comparatively cheaper.

10 Drako Dragon

Top Speed: 200+ MPH

Drako Motors first teased the Dragon SUV in 2022, exhibiting off its dramatic gull-wing doors and its wild 2,000 horsepower output produced by 4 electrical motors. Their second automobile after the GTE, this luxurious SUV hypercar, is one in every of its form.

With a 0-60 mph acceleration time of 1.9 seconds and a high pace of over 200 mph, Drako Motors claims the Dragon is probably the most {powerful}, quickest and quickest manufacturing hyper-luxury SUV in historical past. It boasts some ground-breaking options as properly.

For occasion, all of Dragon’s bodily driver controls are mounted on to the steering wheel, together with these for the flip alerts, windshield wipers, headlights, and even the horn.

Drako Dragon Specifications

(Specs sourced from Drako)

Interestingly, the Drako Dragon is also the world’s first production SUV with a full carbon fiber structure. With a spread of EPA-rated 420 miles, the Dragon has a base worth of $290,000. The Dragon’s battery pack, designed and constructed in-house, has a 500 kW fast-charging capability that permits for an 80 % cost in 10 minutes.