For many buyers, one number defines an EV: range.
Which is understandable. Early electric cars didn’t go far between charges, and public chargers were few and far between.
Take the 2010 Nissan Leaf - the first mass-market EV - which managed just 100 miles and took eight hours to charge at home.
Times have thankfully changed. Even the cheapest electric cars of today can double the Leaf’s range and recharge in a fraction of the time.
Thanks to major advances in battery and motor tech, some modern EVs can now go as far on a charge as petrol cars do on a full tank.
Below is a list of the 10 longest-range electric cars on sale in the UK, based on official WLTP figures. Real-world results will vary and you are unlikely to achieve these figures unless you drive gently, in warm weather, or know a thing or two about hypermiling.
The longest-range electric car on sale in the UK is the Mercedes-Benz EQS with an impressive 481-mile range. Curious about the rest? Let’s get into it.
Range: 481 miles
The Mercedes-Benz EQS boasts the longest range of any EV on sale in the UK today, delivering 481 miles from its enormous 118kWh battery.
It's helped significantly by its impressive drag coefficient of 0.20, which makes it the slipperiest car currently in production.
Even if you do somehow manage to drain the battery in one go, you won’t have to wait long to fill it back up again: it can accept charging speeds of up to 200kW, so a 10-80% top-up will take just half an hour.
The only real downside is that a new one will set you back more than £100,000…
Read our Mercedes-Benz EQS review
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I hadn't realised this is a recycled article from 3 or 4 years go when I posted below 10 minutes ago.
Anyway. here is my real world figures for the only two cars in the household, both are electric & generally 99% of time charged at home at 9p/kWh (Octopus Go)
1 Mercedes EQA300 does 18,000 miles a year, range 220 miles in winter, 270 in summer. Longest round trip for 50 weks of the year is 121 miles. Yesterday, 320 mile round trip, set off 70% charged, 20 minute charge to 80% capacity at motorway services, got home with 20 miles remaining. Overall 3.3p mile.
2 Mazda MX30 does 6,000 miles a year (115 week) range 130 miles, not a problem, charge at home once a week. Overall 4.1p mile.
Charging time, irrelevant. Either car takes 1 minute to plug in and 1 minute to unplug, charge times set for 00:30 & 05:30 am. That means the cars charge whilst people are sleeping & we have never needed to charge both cars at the same time.
Both cars bought 2 years old so someone else took a hit on the initial depreciation.
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486 miles - Don't make me laugh...
My 19 year old Brabus mapped Mercedes Ben E320 Cdi, (all be it with the factory fitted long range tank), would easy do 1100+ on fast motorway work and only take 15 mins to fill up when empty.
When an electric car can match that, I may consider buying one?
WOW, because it's so important to do day to day travelling for 18 hours from London to Aberdeen AND back again without stopping for even a comfort break.