New issue out now: Top Gear's Electric Awards 2025
The latest issue of Top Gear magazine is out right now, and it's time for our annual Electric Awards. Yep, we've sifted through a whole heap of the latest EVs to confirm which ones are actually worth your attention… and quite possibly your hard-earned cash.
Of course, you'll need to be fairly well-heeled to buy our best EV hypercar – the £2m plus tax Lotus Evija. Still, with 2,011bhp on tap it can claim to be the most powerful production car in history, so there's your conversation starter. To fully put the Evija to the test, we sent Jethro Bovingdon to Anglesey to see how it'd stack up on track, before Jason Barlow recreated an old Lotus test driver jaunt from the factory down to the south of France. This is consumer testing at its finest.
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