EPA Listed All-Electric Cars, Lowest to Highest

Let’s take a look at the U.S. all-electric car market and compare the available (or coming soon) models by EPA lineup rating as of September 18, 2021.

We will stick to the EPA combined range value (official or expected) as this is the only common rating we have in the United States. In the second part of the article, we’ll also look at the City / Highway results.

The list currently includes dozens of models and a total of over 60 versions, starting with the Mazda MX-30 which is expected to have only 161 km of range and ending with the Lucid Air Dream Edition range (19 “) with 520 miles (837 km) of range.

There are only several models (usually the older ones) that note an EPA combined range of less than 200 miles (322 km). Most cars go between 200 and 300 miles.

An interesting thing is that there are more and more cars over 300 miles including some of the Ford Mustang Mach-E, all of the Tesla cars (the Model S is even above 400 miles) and the all new Rivian R1T / R1S.

While Rivian pioneered the pickup truck segment with over 300 miles, one of the most striking news was the very first model with over 500 miles of range – Lucid Air (a total of three versions, each tested with 19 “and 21” wheels).

We would like to note that the EPA ratings for some specific models, especially the Porsche Taycan / Taycan Cross Turismo, are much lower than what we and other media got in testing, which could be related to its transmission at two speeds at the rear.

The 2021 Tesla Model 3 Standard Range Plus is listed twice, as the version tested at 263 miles (423 km) was recently listed as 262 miles (in the Tesla Online Configurator).

Now let’s take a look at the much more advanced comparison, which consists of more range ratings for the Highway (yellow) category and the City (green) category. We don’t know the ratings for all models as many are just new / pending EPA results.

In most cases, the range on the motorway is significantly less than the City and Combined categories. We advise you to pay attention to the Highway rating, as it is the most important for long distance trips.

A tabular version of the comparison:

Electric cars listed by the EPA go from lowest to highest

For more of our latest comparisons, check out our Compare EVs card here.

* estimated / unofficial values

** Porsche Taycan EPA numbers are generally much lower than in real world tests (see our 70mph range test results here)