On sale: any time now
One of the greatest hot hatch badges of all is making a comeback! Again! Except this time, it’ll be electric. That might put some people off, but the Peugeot e-208 GTi will use a recipe that’s already been employed to excellent effect by some Stellantis stablemates. That includes 276bhp sent through the front wheels and, crucially, a proper mechanical limited-slip diff on the front axle for some keen nose-in antics. Revealed nearly a year ago, we’re not sure what’s taking Peugeot so long to actually get it into production, but expect it to arrive soon.
Revealed: April 2026
On sale: summer 2026
The e-208 GTi won’t have the little electric hot hatch market all to itself. In fact, it seems to be growing by the day at the moment. The latest contender is the Cupra Raval, the first of a wave of new small EVs coming from the VW Group. It’ll be available in lower-powered form from as little as £23,785 (notwithstanding potential eligibility for the government EV grant), but the one you’re interested in – the hot 223bhp VZ – kicks off at £34,995. It’ll hit UK roads in the summer.
Revealed: April 2026
On sale: summer 2026
Hyundai’s spent the last few years knocking out hit after hit, especially when it comes to EVs, and the latest addition to the range, the VW ID.3-rivalling Ioniq 3, looks set to continue that. Not only does it look great with its slippery ‘Aero Hatch’ silhouette, but in long-range form, it’ll do a quoted 305 miles on a charge – one of the best figures in its class. All we’re waiting for to complete the package is a hot N version – how good would that look?
Revealed: April 2025
On sale: summer 2026
Do you live in a large but slightly dilapidated country house? Own many Labradors and wax jackets? If so, you were probably disappointed when you found out the traditional Subaru Outback wasn’t going to live on in Europe. Thankfully, the name and the ethos will – it’s just going electric. The E-Outback is something rather unique (along with its Toyota bZ4X Touring sibling) – a lifted, off-road-capable electric estate car. We like it a lot for its comfort and capability, and also the fact that it has 375bhp on tap. Expect it in showrooms this summer.
Revealed: October 2025
On sale: July 2026
Honda recently took the costly decision to kill most of its upcoming EVs to death, some of which were mere months from launch. It’s unquestionably a blow, but thankfully, the adorable little Super-N escaped the cull. Based on a Japanese-market kei car but with pumped-up styling, it’s practically saying “I really am a hot hatch, I promise!” It gets a ‘Boost’ mode that temporarily ups power to 95bhp, and features fake gears to keep enthusiasts on side. It’s going on sale in July, and will cost less than £20,000.
Revealed: November 2025
On sale: second half of 2026
Take the brilliant 641bhp underpinnings of the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N, complete with its mind-boggling torque vectoring tech and simulated gear shifts, and throw some more luxury and a lot more orange at it: that’s the recipe behind the GV60 Magma, the first proper production car with Genesis’ new high-performance badge. We rather like the standard GV60, and we really like the Ioniq 5 N, so a car that combines them both should be a winner. It’ll arrive in Britain in the second half of this year.
Revealed: April 2026
On sale: summer 2026
Mercedes and BMW seem to be locked in a game of technological tit-for-tat at the moment, and Merc’s latest move is the first C-Class to go all-electric. Set to arrive in the summer and be sold alongside the combustion car, it gets all the stuff we’ve come to expect from this new generation of Merc EVs – namely that light-up grille and that dashboard-spanning Hyperscreen. There is also the small matter of up to 473 miles of range – impressive, if not quite as impressive as the car it’s set to go head-to-head with…
Revealed: March 2026
On sale: autumn 2026
That car is, of course, the new BMW i3, which essentially represents the evergreen 3 Series going electric, although the combustion one will stick around for the foreseeable. The second of BMW’s ‘Neue Klasse’ EVs, we’re expecting big things from the i3 given how impressed we were with the first, the iX3. Certainly, one big thing is the projected range: up to 560 miles. Wowzers. And look – proof that BMW can actually design a good-looking car when it puts its mind to it! It comes to Britain in the autumn.
Revealed: January 2026
On sale: late 2026
We were beset by jealousy back in 2021 when Hyundai revealed its space-age Staria but confirmed it wasn’t UK-bound, because we’re the sort of deeply interesting people who get far too excited about people carriers. However, at the start of this year, Hyundai revealed a facelifted Staria, complete with a 248-mile-capable electric version, and joy of joys, this one is coming to Britain. Expect it to be on sale by the end of the year. Still want that ID Buzz?
Revealed: January 2026
On sale: December 2026
The Volvo EX60 – think electric sibling to the best-selling XC60 – is landing headfirst in a crowded market segment, full of talented stuff like the BMW iX3, Mercedes GLC EV and omnipresent Tesla Model Y. The Volvo, though, should set itself apart with that Scandi charm the company does so well, as well as an innovative cell-to-body battery structure and a class-leading 503 miles of range. If Volvo manages to get the software right out of the gate this time, it could well be onto a winner.
Revealed: November 2025
On sale: late 2026/early 2027
EV fan or not, if you look at the new Twingo and aren’t immediately besotted, we don’t know what to tell you besides seek medical attention. This heart-meltingly cute city car complements the 4 and 5 to complete Renault’s trio of small, retro EVs, and in the styling department, it’s perhaps the biggest smash hit of them yet. It’s practical and good to drive too, and likely to start at under £20,000, making it one of the cheapest EVs around. It even comes in proper, vibrant colours. It is nothing short of an utter joy.
Revealed: September 2022, technically
On sale: late 2026
Jeep first showed us pictures of the boxy Recon EV way back in September 2022, but it wasn’t until late last year we got full details. Basically, think electro-Wrangler, right down to its removable doors and off-road chops. Except we don’t know of any Wranglers pushing 641bhp from the factory, which is what the Recon is putting down. It’ll land in Britain late this year, where it’ll help fill the void caused by the lack of properly capable electric off-roaders. And still probably never be taken off-road.
Revealed: April 2024
On sale: late 2026
None of the many, many Chinese EVs to have arrived on the market over the last couple of years have been what we’d call interesting. Not even the Funky Cat. This is, though: coming from a posh sub-brand of the mega-corp that is BYD, the Denza Z9 GT is a posh, swoopy estate with the ability to ‘crab-walk’ into spaces and the small matter of 952bhp. It’ll get a specific chassis tune to suit European tastes, and there’s a PHEV version too.
Revealed: March 2026
On sale: late 2026
The S-Class is gradually being usurped as the chauffeur-driven transport of choice for slebs and biznusspeople by various posh incarnations of the Mercedes Vito van. Merc itself has long cottoned onto this and offered luxed-up versions from the factory, and now there’s a bespoke electric one, the VLE, which will also come in uber-plush Maybach VLS form. Frankly, it looks like a lovely way to travel, and it should be great eco-PR for the rich and famous as they step off their Gulfstreams.
Revealed: December 2024
On sale: 2027
We still can’t quite believe the Renault 5 Turbo 3E is a real car that’s actually on sale, albeit in very small numbers, but real it is – we’ve been for a ride in one, and can confirm that it’s precisely as bonkers as it looks. An homage to the 5 Turbo homologation special from the ’80s, it’s built around a new aluminium chassis that’ll also underpin the next Alpine A110, and in a first for a road car, gets light, compact in-wheel motors, which send a spicy 540bhp to the rear wheels. Customers will start getting their cars next year.
Revealed: March 2024
On sale: TBC (in Europe)
We’ve been looking jealously for a while at the output of Rivian, now the American EV startup of choice for people who don’t want their car vandalised. So far, its big R1S and R1T have been limited to North America, but the smaller R2 will spearhead the brand’s arrival in Europe. A solid date for that arrival hasn’t been set yet, but we’ve been out to the States to have an early go, and came back seriously impressed, not just by the tech but the seriously impressive handling, too.
Reveal date: soon
The long-awaited electric Range Rover should have already been on the road by now, but that pesky unpredictable EV market has seen it hit with a couple of delays. Nevertheless, it’s nearly finished, we’ve already had a play in a prototype, and here’s a surprise – a car that’s always majored on smooth, quiet progress and effortless low-down torque really, really suits electric power. Should be a good ’un, this. Expect to see the finished car very soon.
Reveal date: soon
The MG Cyberster is currently a pretty unique proposition in the market, and truthfully, one that doesn’t seem to have resonated with people all that much if the amount we see on the road is anything to go by. Maybe that’ll change with a coupe version, first previewed by 2024’s Cyber GTS concept and confirmed for production last year. It’s likely to stay rather niche, but we won’t complain about more two-door coupes on the market in any form.
Reveal date: May 2026
Hoo boy. The first ever all-electric Ferrari is certainly going to ruffle some feathers, especially given that it’s likely to be SUV-shaped, and that the interior has already been the subject of lots of, erm, measured and civil online debate. There’s going to be a heck of a lot to unpack on a car with a 1,000bhp-plus quad-motor drivetrain, a strange new electric guitar-inspired soundscape, and one of the most storied, beloved badges in the business. Basically, don’t expect this one to slip out unnoticed.
Reveal date: May 2026
After its early ID models seemed to entirely ignore why people actually like Volkswagens, the company is on a massive course-correction mission, going back to more familiar names and sensible interiors. The ID Polo, closely related to the Cupra Born, will be one of the first of this next generation of EVs, and happily, it looks like a far more VW-ish product based on what we’ve seen so far. It’ll be the first VW EV to get a GTI version too, with 223bhp and an electronic diff lock. Excellent.
Reveal date: summer 2026
You might be vaguely aware that Jaguar’s reinvented itself as an upmarket, all-electric brand. There was a small amount of entirely sensible, level-headed discussion about it online at the end of 2024. It’s fine, you probably missed it. Anyway, that dramatic, unashamedly pink two-door concept car will soon morph into a vast, luxurious, 1,000bhp+ four-door production car, which we should see this summer. Amid all the noise, though, we’ve had a go in a prototype, and make no mistake: this is a proper Jag of the highest order.
Reveal date: summer 2026
Although wagons have long been its bread and butter (or more realistically, its smörgås ), Volvo is hesitant to produce an all-electric estate car, citing the all-consuming dominance of the SUV for people seeking practicality. Thankfully, its sporty-stroke-premium offshoot Polestar is less risk averse, and has confirmed a longroof version of the 4, to be revealed this summer. Even this will be more of an XC70-style jacked-up estate, but it’s better than nothing, and it’ll right arguably the 4’s biggest wrong, because it’ll have a rear windscreen.
Reveal date: summer 2026
While we’re desperately sad that one of our favourite cars, the petrol-powered Alpine A110, has just a few months left to live, we’re cautiously optimistic that its electric replacement will be able to recapture some of its brilliance. We’re promised similarly compact dimensions with proper sports car styling, and the lightweight aluminium chassis that’s already proved deeply effective beneath the Renault 5 Turbo 3E. If recent rumours are to be believed, there could end up being a hybrid version anyway, but we’re seriously intrigued to see if the all-electric one still feels like an Alpine.
Reveal date: summer 2026
Are we really about to call a large, seven-seater electric family bus from Skoda ‘exciting’? Yeah, looks like we are. The thing is, while several core parts of the VW Group have rather lost their way over the last few years and are scrambling to get back on track, Skoda has stayed true to its sensible, unpretentious roots, and has therefore quietly become the brand to beat in the VW stable. If the Peaq keeps that up, it could become the new electric family hauler of choice, and that’ll certainly be exciting to the people who need it.
Reveal date: summer 2026
The new Renault Twingo is already set to represent phenomenal value, but trust Dacia to take that package and make it even, erm… phenomenaler. First teased last year, it’s working on its own version of the Twingo, which should come with a more pared-back interior and Dacia’s charming, rufty-tufty styling, arguably filling the same sort of niche cars like the original Renault 4 did back in the day. Expect to see it in full over the summer, and for it to go on sale early next year from as little as £16,000.
Reveal date: summer 2026
You certainly can’t accuse BMW of not hedging its bets with the fifth-generation X5, due to arrive towards the end of the year. It’s going to come with a truly dizzying array of propulsion systems – petrol, diesel, plug-in hybrid, all-electric and even hydrogen. It’s the electric iX5 we’re most interested in here, though – another ‘Neue Klasse’ EV, it’ll use the same box of bits as the new iX3 and i3, and we know from first hand experience that they make for a fantastic electric car.
Reveal date: autumn 2026
Had EV tech been mature enough in the 1990s, the original Audi A2 – a car that still feels futuristic today – surely would have made use of it. Now, it very much is mature, and right on cue, the A2 is coming back as Audi’s new entry-level EV. Almost certain to utilise existing VW Group electric gubbins, its silhouette has already been teased, showing an updated version of the original’s curved roof and Kamm-tailed rear. Hopefully, the world will be a little more ready for it this time round.
Reveal date: October 2026
Yet another entrant in the burgeoning hot electric supermini class, the long-awaited return of the hot Vauxhall Corsa is set to debut at the Paris Motor Show in October with the same proven 276bhp underpinnings as the Peugeot e-208 GTi. And Vauxhall Mokka GSE. And Abarth 600e. And Alfa Junior Veloce. Okay, this setup might be getting stretched to breaking point by Stellantis, but we won’t complain about another small, hot Vauxhall, even if you can’t stick a Cherry Bomb exhaust on this one. Halfords car parks will never sound the same at 2am again.
Reveal date: autumn 2026
Not so long ago, Bentley was promising it’d be all-electric by the end of the decade, but a swift change of plan means we’ll have to wait a few more months to even see its first full EV. That car’s due to be a sub-Bentayga SUV which Bentley infuriatingly insists on calling an ‘Urban SUV’, but we’ll let that bit of irritating marketingese slide for now, because given the superb quality of Crewe’s current output, we have little doubt that an all-electric Bentley is going to be a wafty delight. Expect to see it in the autumn.
Reveal date: late 2026
Even though the brand’s reputation was built entirely on the Fortwo, the little two-seater city car that everyone simply calls the ‘Smart car’, Smart – now a co-venture between Mercedes and Geely – hasn’t sold such a car since 2024, instead pivoting to larger electric crossovers that nobody seems to buy. That’ll change by the end of the year, when we see the production version of a car that’ll be renamed the #2, in line with Smart’s deeply annoying new naming convention. We’ve just seen a concept – expect the real thing to look a lot like it.
Reveal date: TBC 2026
Prepare thine internal organs: Mercedes’ power-happy AMG division is working on its first standalone electric car, and it’s going to be quick . Picking up where the seldom-seen petrol-powered AMG GT 4 Door left off, it sits on a bespoke AMG EV platform and will likely pack comfortably over 1,000bhp from power-dense axial flux motors, which are a real thing and not something from a ’70s sci-fi series. We’ve already seen the interior which, in the modern Merc tradition, appears to have been nicked from the big IMAX next to Waterloo Station.
Reveal date: TBC 2026
It’s now been several years since Porsche announced its plans to replace the beloved Boxster and Cayman with electric sports cars, and things have changed quite a lot in the EV market since then – so much so that Porsche is re-engineering them to take combustion engines too, and that briefly, it looked like the EV versions might not happen at all. But happening they (seemingly) are, and while we’d be lying if we said we weren’t relieved to be getting petrol versions too, we’re in little doubt that the fully electric ones will be pretty sensational to drive.
Reveal date: early 2027
It’s been over seven years since the Polestar 2 was first revealed to the world, but after all that time, it remains one of the most well-rounded, likeable EVs on the market. It’s getting on a bit, though, with Polestar confirming a second generation is on the way early next year, which, bafflingly given the brand’s naming logic thus far, will still be called the 2. Expect more of the same goodness, but with less of a Volvo-ish face as Polestar increasingly takes strides to become its own thing.
Reveal date: 2027
Yep, it’s really happening: the BMW M3 is going electric, but before you start sending hate mail to Munich, there will be at least one more generation with a good old straight-six too. Anyway, the electric one: it’ll be based on the new i3, and get a four-motor powertrain rumoured to be pushing over 1,000bhp. Each motor will have its own dedicated gearbox too, allowing all manner of hugely complicated things to take place in terms of power delivery and torque vectoring. The results won’t be complicated, though: BIG SKIDS.
Reveal date: 2027
When the Audi TT died in 2023, it seemed that was that. Not so – a new one, or at least something very much in its image, is on the way, and should be shown off next year. It was previewed last year by the headline-grabbing Concept C, which hints at a new, far less fussy look for Audi, both outside and inside its cars. The production version will serve as the halo car Audi’s been missing since the R8 ended production, and will share its underpinnings with the electric Porsche 718.
Reveal date: 2027
The Project V is uncharted territory for Caterham, which has spent most of the last 50-odd years building a lightly updated version of a car from the 1950s. It’s steadily inching closer to production, with a running prototype having arrived late last year, and there’s lots of promising stuff being touted: with a targeted kerbweight of around 1.2 tonnes and a clever Yamaha e-axle packaging all the 268bhp running gear into one compact unit, this could do a better job of being an electric Alpine A110 than the actual electric Alpine A110.
Reveal date: 2027
Really, this is several upcoming EVs, all centred around a new platform that Ford’s invested billions in and which it promises will massively streamline production and reduce the cost of building an EV. The first car it’ll spawn next year is a compact (by American standards) pickup, aimed largely at the US and starting at around $30,000, but plenty more models are promised using the same underparts, some of which could come to Europe, where Ford could desperately use some more competitive EVs. Watch this space.
Reveal date: 2027
Likely to make its long-awaited debut next year, Mercedes’ so-called ‘Little G’ is set to smoosh all the signatures of the full-size G-Class into a smaller, more manoeuvrable package. Originally planned as an electric-only model, recent reports suggest Merc is now also planning hybrid versions too. Mercedes promises it’ll still be capable off-road, which will certainly be of great comfort to owners as they inch down a traffic-choked Park Lane.
Reveal date: 2027
If the car market was a more predictable place, Alfa Romeo’s next-gen Giulia probably should have already been on sale by now, along with its high-riding Stelvio cousin. But it’s not, and it probably won’t be until next year while Alfa re-engineers it to be a hybrid as well as an EV, a move that’s brought the unexpected bonus of giving the fantastic current-gen car a stay of execution. When the new one finally does arrive, expect avant-garde styling atop the same talented bones as the new Dodge Charger.
Reveal date: TBC
Technically, Dacia hasn’t yet publicly greenlit production of last year’s funky Hipster concept, but given the overwhelmingly positive response to it, it seems likely, especially because it looks ready-made to slot into the EU’s in-development ‘E-car’ regulations for simple, affordable EVs. If it hits the market, expect it to cost even less than the Twingo-based Dacia we mentioned earlier, and if it’s still called the Hipster, expect it to very quickly buy itself a fixie and get a job in an artisan coffee shop in Hoxton like it’s 2013 all over again.
Reveal date: TBC
We thought we’d seen the last of the Ford Fiesta when we bade it a teary farewell in 2023, but it turns out legends don’t stay dead for long. Ford has released its new product plan for the next few years in Europe, and that plan includes a B-segment hatchback that will “combine distinct design with Ford’s signature driving dynamics”. And it’ll be electric. Surely they wouldn’t dare call it anything other than a Fiesta? Expect it to use the superb Renault 5 as its base.
Reveal date: TBC
First teased way back in 2021 as part of Alpine’s plan for an electric ‘dream garage’, the A310’s name harks back to the wedgy model that succeeded the original A110 in the ’70s, but this time, it’ll sit alongside the next A110 rather than replace it. Based on the same aluminium architecture as the A110, it’ll be a larger 2+2 coupe and convertible – think Porsche 911 size – and if demand and regulations allow, could get hybrid as well as fully electric power.
Reveal date: TBC
Another car that’s been hit with delays as Lotus tries to do a very un-Lotus thing and actually make some money, the Type 134 – it’ll get a proper Lotus e-name when it eventually arrives – is set to be a smaller SUV counterpart to the big Eletre, with the the Porsche Macan EV and Alpine A390 among its rivals. Once more with feeling: originally planned as electric-only, slower than expected demand means it’ll almost certainly now launch with the option of hybrid power too.
Reveal date: TBC
Should the name of a car celebrated as having perhaps the finest internal combustion engine to ever grace our ears really be repurposed for an EV? It’s not really our place to say, but it’s certainly got people talking, hasn’t it? First revealed last summer as the Lexus Sport Concept before gaining the LFA moniker when it was re-revealed alongside the Toyota GR GT, Lexus has teased if not outright confirmed the fact that production is on the cards. Party poppers and/or pitchforks at the ready.
