Price, comfort, charging speeds and other criteria are all taken into account when buying an electric car, but in most cases, it's the range of an EV that has the greatest influence.
Indeed, many EV users don’t want to be caught out by range anxiety or worry about charging via the public network. Early battery-electric offerings couldn’t travel very far on a charge, and public infrastructure was scarce.
Cast your mind back to 2010 and the Nissan Leaf hatchback could only manage around 100 miles and took more than eight hours to charge at home.
Nowadays the outlook is far more promising, with electric superminis at the cheaper end of the spectrum capable of travelling up to 200 miles on a charge, if not more.
Faster charging speeds and an ever-growing public charging speeds means that electric cars are not only more usable from a range perspective, but also easier to top-up on the move.
Pleasingly, there’s a plethora of newfangled EVs that can match the range of most petrol and diesel cars when it comes to range. With this in mind, we’ve put together a list of the 10 longest-range electric cars on sale in the UK based on their official WLTP figure.
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 BMW iX3 with an impressive 500-mile range. Curious about the rest? Let’s get into it.
Range: 500 miles
BMW’s revolutionary new iX3 offers the longest range of any electric car on sale today, and is claimed to travel up to 500 miles on a charge.
The iX3 marks the beginning of a bold new era of technology, drivability and most notably, design, as the electric SUV is the first of BMW’s Neue Klasse models.
Powering the iX3 is a new 108kWh nickelmanganese-cobalt (NMC) battery, which uses cylindrical cells as opposed to modules to boost range, efficiency and charging speeds.
And thanks to the iX3 platform’s 800V electric architecture, it’s claimed to handle charging speeds of up to 400kW – find a device with such an output and you’ll be able to add 217 miles of range in just 10 minutes.
Read our BMW iX3 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.
Great, but I assume you live in an well populated area where there will be plenty of opportunities to charge up,but what about the other extreme where your nearest metropolis is an hour away,ok get a charger installed mahatma does that involve for the installer assuming you can get one to agree to do in the what is to them the back of beyond,and at the moment EV take up is rising thanks only to the Government chipping in on the discount to buy, yes I get EV range isn't the anxiety it once was, but infrastructure is, wondering if when you get to or dur your journey if there will be a suitable charging point and stopping for 20 minutes? Erm I fat enough witho the coffee n cake excuse while waiting for the car to charge as opposed to ten minutes for an ICE car,ok you could still by stuff while wait to pay, so EV seems to be for now the in option for future transport,but it's not always best in some areas of the wherever you live.
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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.