Electric Vehicles with the Fastest Charging Speeds
The top 10 fastest-charging EVs currently available
With a tremendous number of bespoke EVs that have already arrived this year, there has never been a more exciting time to switch to go all-electric. A number of factors will play into your EV decision, regardless of whether its a lease or a purchase. Aside from the obvious preference for a certain model design, things like cargo space, range, acceleration, and technology are all important to consider. So is charging speed. Some of the data below could be the deciding factor in choosing one EV or another. Check out the top 10 fastest charging EVs currently available.
Background
As the EV world currently operates, there are three levels to charging your vehicle, offering varying speeds and levels of power Level 1 AC (120V), Level 2 AC (240V), and DC Fast Charging.
These levels are important to understand as they each offer pros and cons. Furthermore, each will be preferential at some point, given your driving circumstances on a given day. Below, a new study has compared the charge speed of fifty-five different EVs to see which were the fastest when it comes to both AC and DC power. Heres how the data was gathered.
Methodology
The study itself comes from the website USwitch, which compiled and compared the EVs youll read about below. Here is how the EV data was gathered and compiled, according to them.
- Vehicle performance statistics were acquired from the EV Database
- AC and DC fast charging speeds for each EV in the EV Database were collected
- Note Charging speed and rapid charge speeds were calculated based on 3-phase grid and CCS (350 kW DC) connections respectively
- Each vehicle was subsequently ranked based on a normalized index accounting for regular and fast charging speeds
- In the case of EVs with multiple trim options, only the highest-ranking variants were used
Ranking the top 10 fastest charging EVs
Below are the results of the study, ranked from fastest charging EV to, well, 10th fastest. The mph in this case does not pertain to actual movement but rather how many miles of range were gathered during one hour of both AC and DC charging.
As you can see, the Porsche Taycan Plus is the fastest charging EV according to USwitch, with an indexed score of 8.8/10. This was led by the 650 miles of range the electric sports car can garner in one hour on a DC fast charger. If only its battery were large enough to hold that much energy!
The Kia EV6 and Mercedes EQS 580 4MATIC follow the Taycan, in second and third place respectively. The EV6 was a very close second, falling to the Taycan by only one mile during a typical AC charging session.
We were surprised the Hyundai IONIQ 5 wasnt ranked higher, especially since it shares the same E-GMP platform as the Kia EV6, plus weve seen evidence of its superfast charging speeds in the past.
What do you think? Have you witnessed faster charging speeds with your own EV?
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The fastest charging electric cars in the UK
If you're thinking of buying an electric car but have no experience of charging one up, you might be concerned about how long it will take to replenish your car's battery.
Well, the bad news is, it will take longer to 'fill up' even the best electric cars than any petrol or diesel vehicle. However, if you can find a fast enough public charger and have a car with rapid charging capability, you can slash the time it does take.
To help you decide whether electric motoring is for youand, if it is, which model suits your lifestyle, below we listed all the electric cars and SUVs we've test-driven, and ranked them in order of the maximumcharging speed rating (in kW) available across the model range.
We've also given an estimate of how many miles of range you'll be able to add by plugging it into a rapid charger for a 10-minute "pitstop"top-up. So, starting with the fastest charging electric car in the UK by kW rating, here are all the electric car models we've reviewed listed in order of charging speed...
