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New electric cars, new prices and new specifications, as they are announced in the UK.
12 October 2026
BYD's ATTO 8 charges a seven-seater in nine minutes, if you can find the charger
BYD ATTO 8
The ATTO 8 puts 115 kWh and FLASH Charging into a seven-seat SUV: 10 to 97% in nine minutes and up to 405 miles. It is only the second car with FLASH Charging, after the DENZA Z9 GT, and it needs BYD's own chargers to do it.
12 October 2026
The two-seat smart is back, and it has to beat cars that seat five
Smart #2
The smart #2 is 2,746 mm long, turns in 6.95 metres and targets 180 miles, more than twice the last fortwo. smart says it will cost less than £20,000. Several cars with more seats already cost less than that.
9 October 2026
The ID.4's replacement tows twice as much
Volkswagen ID. Tiguan
The electric Tiguan is here, with buttons back on the dashboard and up to 373 miles forecast. The bigger change for anyone who tows is 2,000 kg on a rear-drive car that used to manage 1,000.
7 October 2026
Eleven A2s, and the grant fits fewer of them than Audi says
Audi A2 e-tron
The A2 e-tron is on sale from £32,200 to £50,880 across four trims. Audi says every 52 and 61 kWh car takes the £1,500 grant, but two of them are priced over the limit, and the one that goes furthest is £5,955 dearer than an ID.3 that nearly matches it.
7 October 2026
Jaguar's 1,030 PS comeback is really about the range
Jaguar Type 01
The Type 01 is the first new Jaguar since the I-PACE, a British-built four-door GT with more power than any Jaguar before it. The more useful number is 450 miles, further than any Taycan goes.
23 September 2026
The first electric Bentley has a Porsche's numbers, and chose to be slower
Bentley Torcal
The Torcal has the same 113 kWh battery and 400 kW charging as the Cayenne Electric. Where the two part company is the stopwatch, and Bentley says that was deliberate.
14 September 2026
Kia's PV7 is the second 800-volt van, which is better news than the first
Kia PV7 Cargo
Kia showed the PV7 at IAA Transportation on Monday with 800 volts underneath and a 25-minute charging claim. Renault got a van there ten months ago. A voltage only becomes a standard when the second maker turns up.
9 September 2026
Nissan's PIXO arrives in a class that starts at £11,990
Nissan PIXO
Nissan will unveil its small electric city car on 23 September. So far there is a name, a date and one line about where it is built. The last of those is the one worth reading.
8 September 2026
The Spring left China, and the grant can follow it
Dacia Spring
The new Dacia Spring is built in Slovenia, which the old one never was. Dacia says the whole range will be under £18,000 before subsidies. The sum worth doing is the one after them.
7 September 2026
Kia has built three fast ones and given them all a soundtrack
Kia EV3, EV4 and EV5
EV3 GT, EV4 GT and EV5 GT: one 81.4 kWh battery, a second motor each, 292 PS in two of them and 306 in the third. Every one of them plays you an engine that is not there. Britain gets all three, minus the one shape you might actually have wanted.
7 September 2026
Audi went after the air, not the battery
Audi A2 e-tron
The A2 e-tron opens at £32,200, which is £14,060 below anything else Audi will sell you with a plug, and gets 401 miles out of 84 kWh. The most efficient Audi ever built is not, however, the one you get for £32,200.
2 September 2026
It wades 900 mm. Nobody will buy it for that.
Range Rover Electric
The first Range Rover without an engine costs from £154,070, tows two and a half tonnes and goes through most of a metre of water. It is also dearer than everything it competes with, which has never once mattered to anybody buying one.
2 September 2026
The one with the rear window is the cheap one
Polestar 4 SUV
Polestar 4 SUV starts at £54,750, which is £2,000 less than the coupé it copies. It goes further, holds more and lets you see out of the back. The coupé has some explaining to do.
1 September 2026
The SUV tax is £3,995 and 48 miles
Mazda CX-6e
The CX-6e is a Mazda6e with a taller body, and Mazda has priced it from £42,990. Same battery, same motor, same charger, less range. What you are paying for is the shape.
27 August 2026
Not another new Chinese brand?
LEPAS L6 EV
LEPAS is Chery's fourth attempt at the UK, and its first electric car is a 279 mile family SUV with a seven year warranty. The interesting bit is what it is not telling us.
26 August 2026
Undercuts rivals, but at what cost?
Hyundai IONIQ 3
The IONIQ 3 starts at £22,245 with no grant at all, and goes further than an IONIQ 5 costing £16,000 more. The savings had to come from somewhere, and they came out of the charging and the heated seats.
21 August 2026
The biggest battery on sale, and 311 miles to show for it
Genesis GV90
Genesis has put 123.5 kWh into its new flagship SUV — more than any other car from the Hyundai group — and quotes about 311 miles. Nothing else with a battery that big goes so little distance on it.
19 August 2026
AION wants £28,950 for a supermini
AION UT
The UT undercuts nothing and out-ranges almost everything in its class. AION is betting that an eight year everything promise is worth the premium.
