List of production battery electric vehicles (table)
Selected production vehicles
See also : List of production battery electric vehiclesSelected list of battery electric vehicles include :
Name | Comments | Production years | Number produced/sold | Top Speed | Cost | Range | |||||
Baker Electric | One of the earliest electric cars. Reputedly easy to drive. | 1899-1915 | 5000 | US $2 300 | |||||||
Detroit Electric | Sold mainly to women and physicians. | 1907-1939 | 5000 | >US $3 000 depending on options | |||||||
Henney Kilowatt | The first transistor-based electric car; outfitted with modern hydraulic brakes. | 1958–1960 | 50 | US $3,600 | over 60 miles | ||||||
Peugeot 106 électrique | Built by Heuliez and also sold under the name Citroën Saxo. Mainly sold to French administration. Nickel-cadmium battery powered. | 1995-2003 | 6400 | ||||||||
General Motors EV1 | For lease only, all recovered from customers by GM, most destroyed. | 1996-2003 | 2000 | ~ US $40 000 without subsidies | 150 miles, | ||||||
Honda EV Plus | First BEV from a major automaker without lead acid batteries. Twenty-four 12-volt NiMH batteries | 1997–1999 | 350 | US $455/month for 36 month lease; or US$53 000 without subsidies | 80–110 miles | ||||||
Toyota RAV4 EV | Some leased and sold on US east and west coasts, supported. Toyota agreed to stop crushing. | 1997–2002 | 1249 | US $40 000 without subsidies | 80–120 miles | ||||||
Ford Ranger EV | Some sold, most leased; almost all recovered and most destroyed. Ford allowed reconditioning and sale of a limited quantity to former leaseholders by lottery. Estimated only 200 surviving. | 1998-2002 | 1500 | ~ US $50 000; subsidized to $20 000 | 1999 model | ||||||
Nissan Altra EV | Mid-sized station wagon designed from the ground up as the first BEV to use Li-ion batteries, battery lifetime. | 1998–2000 | 140 | US $470/month lease only | |||||||
Global Electric Motorcars | NEV | 1998- | 50,000 through October 2015. | Varies widely depending on the model. A GEM e4, for four people, has a 38-65 miles range with a standard Lithium-Ion battery of 8.9 kWh. | 2001-2012 | 2000 | ~£8 000 | , | |||
ZAP Xebra | Chinese built sedan and truck | 2006- | 200 | US $10 500 | with the standard batteries, or with the optional extended range batteries. | ||||||
Modec | UK built trucks and Vans | 2007- | 100 | ||||||||
Cleanova | French built delivery vans | 7000 | 210 kms, 150 kms | ||||||||
Smart fortwo ED | micro car, mass-produced, multiple generations | 2007; 2009-present | 25,000 by the end of 2019 | - | |||||||
Tesla Roadster | Sold to customers in the United States and Europe. | 2008-2012 | 2,450 | US $92 000 base price | |||||||
Mitsubishi i MiEV | Fleet leasing began in July 2009, and sales to the public in Japan in April 2010 and in Hong Kong in May 2010. | 2009- | 32,000 | 4 million yen | |||||||
Nissan Leaf | Introduced in Japan and the U.S. in December 2010. | 2010- | 370,000 by end of October 2018 | million in Japan in the U.S. | | ||||||
Tesla Model S | Introduced in the U.S. in June 2012. | 2012- | 250,000 by September 2018 | Model 90D US $89 500 base price | |||||||
Tesla Model X | Unveiled in February 2012 | 2015- | 106,689 through September 2018. | US $95 500 base price | |||||||
Renault Zoe | Introduced in France in December 2012. Late 2019 version has 52-kWh battery. | 2012- | 200,000 by November 2019 | US $27,000 including battery | WLTP, late 2019 version former versions: with an extended NEDC cycle range of. | ||||||
BMW i3 | Introduced in Germany in November 2013. | 2013- | 60,000 by November 2016 | BEV 60 Ah EPA NEDC BEV 94 Ah EPA BEV 120 Ah EPA | |||||||
Kia Soul EV | Two generations with very different capabilities. The latter is long-range. | 2014- | 10,210 as of January 2016 | EPA in 2020 model EPA in 2015 model | |||||||
Volkswagen e-Golf | 2014- | 100,000 as of November 2019 | |||||||||
Tesla Model 3 | 2017- | 100,000 as of October 2018 | US $35 000 base price | ||||||||
Mahindra e2o | Successor to the REVAi. Sold in the UK and India. | 2013-2017 | 6.5 lakh starting price | ARAI range | |||||||
Mahindra e2o Plus | 5-door city car. Sold only in India. Users include car rental companies and cab companies providing home-to-work transport for other companies' employees. | 2016-2019 | 5.46 lakh starting price, ex-showroom, after subsidies, in Delhi | to ARAI range | |||||||
Mahindra eVerito | 4-door sedan based on first-gen Dacia Logan | 2016- | 9.5 lakh starting price during 2016 launch, ex-showroom, presumably after subsidies, in Delhi | ARAI range, under real-life city driving | |||||||
Tata Tigor EV | 4-door sedan | 2018- | 9.17 lakh starting price, ex-showroom, Delhi | over ARAI range, under real-life city driving | |||||||
Chevrolet Bolt | 60 or 66 kWh battery; 200 horsepower | 2016- | 65,000 by end of 2019 | United States : $37,000-$38,000 MSRP but under $27,000 because of large dealer rebates. Natherlands: $49,000, recentlyJanuary 2020 lowered to $37,000. | EPA combined city/highway cycle |