Electric cars rated for efficiency

How easy and cheap it is to get from A to B with an electric car and whether this is just as feasible in practice as on paper, depends on several things. For example, how quickly a car recharges, how many kWh is needed per kilometre, whether a heat pump is present to reduce power consumption, whether energy is gained during braking and whether there are other functions that help reduce power consumption. Based on all these things, the British electrifying to be able to rank how efficient many of the electric cars currently available are.

Based on its research, the still relatively young medium assigns ‘energy labels’, comparable to, for example, those of electrical household appliances. This new energy label for cars will, it is hoped electrifying, a standard in the automotive industry. Whether it will come to that remains to be seen. According to the medium, the head of the Automobile Association (the British equivalent of the ANWB) is enthusiastic and endorses its value.

Okay, so what comes out of the first set of valuations? The Tesla Model 3 and the BMW i4 receive the best label, A++, and are therefore the most efficient, according to the research. The Mercedes-Benz EQV gets the worst label: E. Even the somewhat older Audi E-tron and Mercedes-Benz EQC do not get off well with a D label. Again, it remains to be seen what will happen with this label and to what extent it will actually be accepted as an industry standard, but it may already give some idea of ​​which cars are the most economical and efficient with electricity.

Electric cars and their ‘energy label’