Electric cars – what’s on sale and coming in 2025?


In 2024 more electric cars were sold in the UK than ever before – according to figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), more than 382,000 EVs were registered, claiming their largest-ever slice of the overall market at 20%.

Getting to that level required some heavy discounting, however, and that’s likely to continue in 2025 as the mandated sales targets get even tougher this year. That’s good news for new car buyers, and that’s already filtering through into the used car market as downward pressure on new car prices inevitably means the same for near-new used cars, cascading through the used car market over time.

The transition to EVs is also seeing changes in how we pay for our cars, as many private use EVs are financed through company car or salary sacrifice schemes, which provide significant tax benefits compared to traditional car finance products like PCP or personal contract hire.

The majority of new models that went on sale in 2024 were EVs, with that trend set to continue in 2025. In fact, there are going to be very few traditional petrol or diesel cars launched this year (or ever again). Fortunately, prices for electric vehicles are steadily coming down, so we will see a welcome clutch of ‘affordable EVs’ with prices of £20,000 or less this year.

So if you are considering a new EV, should you buy now or wait for what’s coming? We have all the details here…    

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Existing brands

Most of the car companies you already know are currently shifting from fossil-fuel vehicles to electric ones. Here’s what they already have on the market and what they’ll be bringing to showrooms over the next 12 months.

Abarth

Abarth 600e

Fiat’s sporty sub-brand Abarth already offers its own muscled-up version of the 500e electric supermini (the Abarth 500e won The Car Expert’s Best Small Car 2024 award). As 2025 dawns, it’s being joined in showrooms by a bigger sibling, the 600e, which is expected to become the brand’s best-seller.

With 280hp on offer, the newcomer is billed as not only the first Abarth SUV but the ‘most powerful Abarth ever’, though you’ll also be able to also buy a 240hp version.

We won’t see anything else new in 2025 from Abarth, which has now become an electric-only brand now that its ancient petrol-powered 595 and 695 petrol models have been retired from sale. The brand is rumoured to be planning a version of a new Fiat SUV concept, but we won’t see that until at least 2027.     

Alfa Romeo

Alfa Romeo Junior Elettrica
Alfa Romeo Junior

Last year Alfa Romeo finally joined the EV party with the launch of the Junior, reviving a famous past badge of the Italian maker and applying it to a small SUV that is built on the same underpinnings as the Peugeot e-2008 and Jeep Avenger. it was originally going to be called the Milano, but a last-minute spat with the Italian government saw a hasty name change.

You can buy a more potent top-spec Veloce model in the UK Junior range, but we don’t (yet) get the petrol versions that are on sale in Europe.  

Alfa Romeo has a product strategy promising a new all-electric model each year, the Stelvio SUV being the first in 2025, followed by a new Giulia saloon next year, a new Tonale compact SUV in 2027 and then an unnamed new model, believed by many to be a huge SUV. 

Alpine

Alpine A290

We predicted that Renault’s sports-focused sub-brand might just sneak into our electric listing at the end of 2024 and we almost got it right. The new A290 is now on sale, though none of the new cars have reached customers yet. 

The A290 is based on the equally new Renault 5 and is basically an electric hot hatch – the fun of Alpine’s A110 coupe with practicality added. But Alpine also wants to rival the luxury EV offerings of the likes of Porsche and this year we expect to see the the brand’s first SUV model revealed, which will be called the A390. However, it may not make it onto UK streets before the end of the year.

Aston Martin

Aston Martin had planned to launch its first EV in 2025. However, those plans have now changed with the brand investing its limited resources into more plug-in hybrids and pushing back its first EV until 2027.

The company’s position is that it intends to sell combustion-engined cars for as long as it’s allowed to, as Aston drivers apparently want “sounds and smells” from their cars.    

Audi

Audi A6 e-tron
Audi A6 e-tron range

Audi’s EV line-up over the past year has been headed by the Q4 e-tron, the UK’s second-best-selling EV in 2024. Late in the year it was joined by the Q6 e-tron mid-sized SUV, which is related to the new Porsche Macan EV. 

Also now on sale, though the first customers won’t get their cars until February, is the new A6 e-tron, available in liftback and estate (Sportback and Avant in Audi-speak) versions and including a potent S6 model.

We may see the new electric A4 e-tron revealed later in the year, but it’s unlikely to reach the UK until 2026.

Bentley

As we predicted this time last year, Bentley has delayed the launch of its first EV to 2026, the initial model said to be a ‘luxury urban SUV’ that will be built at Bentley’s traditional home in Crewe. No more details are yet forthcoming but the brand then plans to launch a new model with either a full-electric or plug-in drivetrain each year over the following decade.

BMW

BMW iX3 and 3 Series Neue Klasse

BMW currently has a six-strong range of EVs, having launched the i5 and i7 saloons over the past year and added a Touring (estate) version to the i5 line-up. The SUVs also got a new addition, the iX2 small coupé-SUV joining its iX1 sibling, while the i4 received a facelift.

The biggest event of 2025 for BMW won’t happen until close to the end of the year, the launch of the next-generation iX3 SUV. This will be the first car to feature the brand’s latest design language, dubbed ‘Neue Klasse’ – a dramatic change from BMW’s current cars and set to be worn by all of the models following the iX3.

Following the iX3 into showrooms is likely to be one of BMW’s most important models, the 3 Series. The new car will be fully electric but won’t be on the roads until 2026. Meanwhile we may see a restyled version of the 7 Series luxury saloon this year, including the i7 electric versiond.

EVs launching this year

  • BMW iX3 Neue Klasse
  • BMW i7 (update, to be confirmed)

BYD

BYD Sealion 7
BYD Sealion 7

It’s hard to believe that Chinese manufacturer BYD has only been in the UK for less than two years, as the brand is already rapidly establishing itself as a familiar name to buyers. The Atto 3 SUV, Dolphin small car and the Seal, an upmarket (and potent) saloon, have provided an electric bedrock to the new brand, to the point that many were surprised to find that the SUV version of the Seal, the Seal U launched in late 2024, has a plug-in hybrid engine.

Coming in 2025, as we predicted this time last year, is the Sealion, the latest in the BYD ‘Ocean’ series and a family electric SUV to rival the likes of the Tesla Model Y. Which of the Chinese giant’s extensive range of vehicles will next be sent to the UK is yet to be confirmed, though we know that coming before long will be the Atto 2, a small and affordable electric SUV that could take on the likes of the new Vauxhall Frontera.     

Citroën

Citroën ë-C3

Citroën launched an EV that created a bit of a stir in 2024, the ë-C3 offering great value at a price of around £22K to make the electric supermini comparable with petrol models. The drawback was a range of only around 200 miles but reviews were generally highly positive.

The newcomer slotted into an electric range that already included the ë-C4 hatchback and off-road styled ë-C4 X, two van-based people carriers in the ë-Berlingo and ë-SpaceTourer, and the tiny Ami city runabout – the last is due for a mild facelift in 2025.

Also possibly joining the line-up this year will be the Aircross crossover variant of the ë-C3 – the petrol version was unveiled at the Paris motor show in September. We are also expecting the all-new C5 Aircross to gain electric traction for the first time, the new model sharing its platform with the Peugeot e-3008 and Vauxhall Grandland.

EVs launching this year

  • Citroën ë-C3 Aircross
  • Citroën ë-C5 Aircross

Cupra

Cupra Raval

SEAT spin-off brand Cupra’s EV range doubled in 2024, the Born family hatch being joined by the Tavascan, the brand’s first SUV boasting coupe styling. However, the car has only just gone on sale and you won’t see many on the roads just yet.

The big launch for 2025 is expected to be the Raval, the production version of the UrbanRebel concept, but while the concept was a sporty supermini, the showroom model will be a small SUV, a sister to the Volkswagen ID.2 and pitched as highly affordable. The Born is also likely to get a restyle during the year. 

Dacia

2024 Dacia Spring
Dacia Spring

Dacia, the Romanian budget brand owned by Renault, has in the past few months joined the electric set with the Spring, a small SUV pitched as the most affordable EV on the market with prices starting from a mere £14K.

Such a low price comes with compromises of course, such as a range of less than 140 miles and not much in the way of equipment, but the Dacia does open up EV ownership to more buyers than ever before.

There could be more hybrid newcomers from Dacia this year but EV buyers wanting something bigger than a Spring will need to wait until 2027 and the launch of the next Sandero.

DS Automobiles

DS No 8
DS Nº8

You could virtually lift our words from this time last year to describe the electric plans for DS Automobiles. The DS-3 E-Tense small SUV remains on sale but there is no sign yet of the previously trailed DS 4 E-Tense, a mid-size car different to the previous DS 4 E-Tense which was a plug-in hybrid.  

What we are getting is a new naming strategy and an all-new model, described as the first fully DS electric design. The DS Nº8 (apparently you pronounce it ‘number eight’) is debuting at the Brussels motor show in January, an elevated saloon-cum-liftback a bit like the Polestar 2, pitched as the new flagship of the brand and offering a range of more than 450 miles on a full charge.  

Fiat

Fiat Grande Panda
Fiat Grande Panda

This time last year we predicted that Fiat’s sole electric car, the perennially popular 500e, would be joined by a new version of the Panda in 2024. Well that’s still to happen, but instead there is a bigger sister in the line-up, the 600e small SUV having just gone on sale.

The new Panda is coming in 2025, as a radically styled SUV differentiating itself from its predecessor by adopting the name Grande Panda. It’s also being pitched as another of the new generation of ‘affordable’ EVs, potentially cheaper than the 500e. And the new Panda will become a family with off-road themed and fastback versions following in 2026 and 2027.

Ford

Ford Puma Gen-E
Ford Puma Gen-E

Ford finally added to its sole electric offering, the Mustang Mach-E, in 2024 but both newcomers are only just heading to showrooms. The first is the Explorer, a mid-sized SUV finally taking the blue oval into the wider EV market.

The second newcomer has attracted a fair bit of controversy, due to its revival of an iconic name. The new Ford Capri is not a fastback hatch but a small SUV, albeit with coupe-like styling and pace that does suit the potent image of its 1970s predecessor. LIke the DS Nº8, it appears to be another model inspired heavily by the Polestar 2.

The big addition for 2025 will be a fully electric version of the Puma, the UK’s best-selling car in 2024 and the spiritual successor to the Fiesta hatchback. The Puma Gen-E is now on sale with prices starting at just under £30K, and first cars expected to arrive in the UK very soon.

Genesis

Genesis GV70 Electrified

Genesis continued with its three-strong EV range through 2024. Despite launching with only petrol and diesel models back in 2021, the brand was always planning a quick pivot to electric models that followed shortly afterwards. Now, the slow-selling G70 and GV80 combustion-engined models have been dropped.

The Hyundai-owned brand had previously stated it was only going to launch electric models from 2025 but has since rowed back on this, suggesting further development of hybrids will continue while giving no clues as to its next full EV.

The main focus for Genesis over the next year will be the roll-out of its Magma performance department, which is likely to kick off with a high-performance version of its best-selling GV60 model that could boast up to 650hp. The company is also promoting its Magma programme with a top-level motorsport programme in 2026 that involves racing at Le Mans against the likes of Ferrari, Porsche and BMW.

GWM

GWM Ora 03

Long-established Chinese company GWM (Great Wall Motor), continued to market its Ora 03 small hatch in the UK in 2024, and towards the end of the year announced the Ora 7, a large saloon comparable to the Hyundai Ioniq 6 and Tesla model 3. 

Previously branded as GWM Ora when it launched in 2023, the company announced a renaming to just GWM and closed its European office, blaming tough conditions for selling EVs in Europe. 

The Ora models will continue but are likely to be joined in 2025 by the first car from another brand GWM already sells in its home market, Haval. However, the Haval Jolion Pro SUV will be a hybrid, and there are no details of future EVs from GWM at this time.

Honda

Honda 0 saloon and SUV concepts – CES 2025
Honda 0 saloon and SUV prototypes

Honda’s two-strong EV line dropped to just one in 2024, with the neatly styled but short-on-range Honda e two-seater city car being dropped. That leaves the e:Ny1 small electric SUV as the company’s only electric model.

Honda’s future EV plans still revolve along an all-new line dubbed the 0 Series and involving at least seven cars. Initial concept models of a saloon and SUV were first shown in 2024 and refined into further concepts in early 2025, with production versions expected in 2026.

Meanwhile, Honda is currently contemplating a merger with Nissan, which would be a massive project and could completely alter its plans for the future. More news as it happens…

Hyundai

2024 Hyundai Inster
Hyundai Inster

An early adopter of electric propulsion, Hyundai’s range was further added to in 2024. The Ioniq 5 crossover gained a milde facelift and a performance sister wearing the Korean brand’s ‘N’ badge, while the Ioniq 6 saloon is set to get a similar freshen up and performance model this year.

Brand new to the line-up and only just on sale is the Inster, another city car targeting the burgeoning ‘affordable EV’ market, and one of the smallest yet. It’s set to gain a more off-road-styled sister in 2025, dubbed the Inster Cross.

The big news (literally) for Hyundai in 2025 will be the arrival of the new Ioniq 9 large SUV, which will be similar in size and mechanicals, if not in style, to the Kia EV9. As with its Kia sibling, it is targeting Range Rover drivers but with EV power.

EVs launching this year

  • Hyundai Ioniq 6 N
  • Hyundai Ioniq 9
  • Hyundai Inster Cross

Jaguar

Jaguar Type 00 concept

Jaguar doesn’t just have a lack of EVs on sale right now, but it has stopped building cars altogether. You may find some run-out stock of the I-Pace EV in dealer showrooms, but officially the brand is on a pause before re-inventing itself as a maker of high-end electric vehicles.

The launch of Jaguar’s new image, followed by the unveiling of the Type 00 concept, was one of the most talked-about and controversial stories of the end of 2024, but the first production EVs in the new era of one of UK motoring’s most famous names won’t be seen on the roads until 2026 at the earliest – and are likely to look somewhat toned down from the radical Type 00 concept model.

Jeep

Jeep Wagoneer S

Jeep’s only EV remains the Avenger small SUV, launched in 2023. It is still only sold in two-wheel-drive form, although you can get a 4×4 version with a petrol/electric mild hybrid powertrain.

Two more all-electric Jeeps could arrive in 2025. The Jeep Recon is pitched as an electric alternative to the Jeep Wrangler – although it won’t replace Jeep’s most famous model. It will be a 4×4 with proper off-road ability and 600hp of power.

The Wagoneer S will assume the mantle of flagship for the Jeep family and will be a more road-focused model, rivalling the likes of the Audi Q6 e-tron and reputedly with a price tag close to £100,000. Another all-electric model is also believed to be in the works – possibly a replacement for the existing Jeep Compass – but this is still at least a couple of years away from production.

EVs launching this year

  • Jeep Recon
  • Jeep Wagoneer S

KGM

KGM Torres EVX | Expert Rating
KGM Torres EVX

KGM (the new name for Korean manufacturer SsangYong) launched its new mid-sized SUV, the Torres, in 2024. Sitting between the Korando and the Rexton, it’s available with both petrol and electric drivetrains – and the EVX electric version is easily distinguished from its combustion sister by different front-end styling.

KGM’s first launch in 2025 will be the Actyon, a mid-sized SUV which uses the same underpinning as the Torres – this has fuelled speculation that an EV version might be launched at some point though KGM has not mentioned one as yet.

Definitely coming this year is the 0100, which will see KGM selling the first electric pick-up truck in the UK. The twin-motor all-wheel-drive model is built on the Torres EVX platform, and like all of KGM’s EVs, it uses electric hardware supplied by Chinese giant BYD.

Kia

Kia EV6

The march of Kia’s new bespoke EV range continued apace in 2024, the original mid-sized EV6 and new range flagship the EV9 gaining a smaller sister right at the end of the year in the EV3 – the winner of The Car Expert’s Car of the Year 2025. Only now on its way to showrooms this car effectively fills the space left by the demise of Kia’s original EV, the Soul. The EV6 also underwent a mild update.

Kia’s EV onslaught continues in 2025 with the launch of the EV4 (imagine a smaller version of the sleekly-styled EV6) and EV5 (a squared-off SUV that sits between the EV3 and EV9). There will also be a more potent version of the EV9, carrying the same ‘GT’ badge as applied to the most powerful EV6. The big car will have two motors, more than 500hp and a sub five-second 0-62mph time. 

Before the end of the year, we may see an even smaller member of the family – based on the Hyundai Inster, the Kia EV2 will rival the likes of the Mini Cooper Electric and Renault 5 but it isn’t expected to hit UK roads before 2026.

EVs launching this year

  • Kia EV4
  • Kia EV5
  • Kia EV9 GT

Land Rover

Range Rover Electric

Land Rover’s electric plans are closely allied to those of sister brand Jaguar and so have been subject to the same drawn-out wait, but we’ll finally see not one but two Land Rover EVs in 2025.

Both will wear upmarket Range Rover badges – the Range Rover Electric will be first, dubbed the quietest and most refined version of the model ever produced, but with no less off-road ability, and it will be followed quickly by an electric Range Rover Sport. 

Set for a potential launch in Spring 2026 is an electric version of the Range Rover Velar, and this will be the first on the new EMA electric platform which will also underpin the new Jaguar line-up. This platform will also form the basis of an electric replacement for the Land Rover Discovery Sport and possibly a Defender Sport model. 

Lexus

Lexus RZ (2022 onwards) | Expert Rating
Lexus RZ

Lexus continued through 2024 with just its two electric offerings, the plush but somewhat range-light RZ SUV and its smaller sister the UX 300e.

Not much is set to change in 2025. There has been little or no news on the two new electric models that were shown in concept form at the Tokyo motor show back in 2023 – the LF-ZC upmarket saloon and LF-ZL SUV range-topper.

Lotus

2024 Lotus Emeya
Lotus Emeya

Lotus finally put two EVs on sale in 2024, the Eletre large SUV and the Emeya, a luxury saloon, but the first production models are only just reaching buyers.

There were supposed to be more EVs coming but in November the brand announced it was axing its plans to go all-electric by 2028 in favour of ‘super-hybrid’ technology. Whether a forthcoming new model, a performance SUV to rival the likes of the Porsche Macan, will now be a plug-in hybrid instead of all-electric remains to be seen.

Maserati

Maserati GranTurismo Folgore

Maserati’s first all-electric cars finally arrived in 2024, well over a year later than predicted. The GranTurismo Folgore is a two-door coupe with a rocketship 0-62mph time 0f 2.7 seconds and a price tag starting at £180K.

It also comes as a GranCabrio drop-top at close to £186K, while the Gracale Folgore is a sports SUV starting at £110K and taking four seconds to hit the 62mph marker. 

Next to get the Folgore name tag (the word being Italian for lightning) will be the MC20, regarded by many as Maserati’s halo model. Much delayed, it may just arrive in 2025. There is also a large electric SUV on the way, but it is unlikely we will see it in the next 12 months.

EVs on sale now

  • Maserati GranTurismo Folgore
  • Maserati Grecale Folgore
  • Maserati Grancabrio Folgore

EVs launching this year

  • Maserati MC20 Folgore (to be confirmed) 

Mazda

Mazda 6e
Mazda 6e

Mazda continued to plough its lonely ‘not just electric’ furrow in 2024. Its only EV model is the MX-30, available regular EV and range-extender petrol/electric formats. And it appears that nothing much will change in 2025.

The company has only just unveiled an all-new Mazda 6e this week at the Brussels motor show, which is a large liftback to replace the previous Mazda 6 discontinued a couple of years ago. Mazda says it will reach UK streets in the first half of 2026.

Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV 2023 – Expert Rating
Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV

EV advocate Mercedes-Benz had a quieter year for launches in 2024 and reined back on its electric enthusiasm, cancelling development of a new platform for large luxury EVs in favour of further developing its existing platform.

The planned van-based EQT people carrier, using the hardware of Renault’s Kangoo, seemed to have quietly disappeared, but the all-electric version of the G-Class very off-roader finally arrived. However, instead of being called an EQG, it was clumsily dubbed the “Mercedes-Benz G 580 with EQ Technology”, with an eye-watering price of £180,000.

The big launch in 2025 will be the new CLA, described as the first model in the ‘generation 2’ for Mercedes EVs. It will mark the official ending of the ‘EQ’ suffix on the three-pointed star’s electric models. The CLA will offer two electric options but also a petrol-engined version reputedly with diesel levels of efficiency.

A new version of the EQC SUV may also appear before the end of the year, replacing one of Mercedes’ earliest electric SUVs which was dropped in 2023. Meanwhile, the Mercedes tuning arm, AMG, is reportedly working on a new electric version of its very potent four-door saloon, replacing the current AMG GT 4 Door with more than 800hp rumoured to be on tap.

EVs launching this year

  • Mercedes-Benz CLA
  • Mercedes-Benz EQC

MG

MG Cyberster | Expert Rating
MG Cyberster

Having enjoyed a couple of years of rave reviews for its MG 4 electric family hatch, MG added another EV in 2024, although this one was a very different sort of car. 

The newcomer appealed to a specialist audience, the Cyberster being an electric two-seat sports car recalling MG’s original UK roots. It slotted into the range alongside the 4, the MG 5 electric estate and ZS small SUV, the latter two selling on their affordability.  

MG’s plans for 2025 should start with a replacement for the long-lived ZS, using the advances in battery technology that have underpinned the success of the MG 4. It’s likely to be dubbed ES5 as there will also be a ZS hybrid model. 

At the very end of the year we may see the new MG2, a city car with a price of around £20,000 to take on the likes of the Renault 4 and Dacia Spring.

The most interesting stories around MG involve batteries rather than cars, the brand having said it intends to launch a car with a semi solid-state battery in 2025. Solid-state batteries offer major advantages over the current lithium-ion units in major areas such as range, energy density and charging speed, but have previously been too expensive. No further details have yet been released on which car will get the battery and whether it will be bound for the UK.  

Mini

Mini Cooper Electric (2024 onwards) - Expert Rating
Mini Cooper Electric

Mini completed the reinvention of its model range as a primarily EV line-up in 2024, launching brand-new versions of the Cooper EV and an even bigger Countryman SUV (the only latest-generation Mini available with both petrol and electric drivetrains), and adding a new model, the Aceman.  

First on sale in the latter part of the year, the Aceman is a crossover neatly slotting into the gap between Cooper and Countryman – think Cooper for people who need adequate rear-seat space but don’t want a gargantuan SUV like the Countryman.

After such a busy time we don’t expect anything particularly new from Mini in 2025, although the new Mini Convertible is likely to get an electric model very soon.

EVs launching this year

  • Mini Convertible Electric

Nissan

Nissan Ariya price reduction
Nissan Ariya

Like Honda, Nissan’s two-model EV line-up shrank to just one in 2024, with the Leaf ending production to leave the Ariya SUV to go it alone. 

What’s coming next is not too clear though we do expect to see the next third-generation Leaf revealed in 2025, with styling that is more crossover than small hatchback. It will still be built in the UK in Sunderland along with new electric versions of the Juke and Qashqai SUVs, but we don’t expect either of the latter two on sale before 2027.  

We might sometime in 2025 get a first look at the next Micra, another small car that will be going fully electric. However, Nissan’s proposed merger with Honda could throw any and all future plans up in the air, so we’ll have to wait and see. 

Omoda

Omoda E5

The long-awaited arrival into the UK of China’s largest vehicle exporter, Chery, has now happened, though under the twin brand names of Omoda and Jaecoo. The Omoda 5, a mid-sized SUV in both electric (E5) and petrol forms, is already on sale through a rapidly increasing number of dealers while Jaecoo will launch in early 2025. 

Jaecoo’s initial model, an SUV called the J7, will only be produced in petrol and plug-in hybrid form but the brand has plans for full-electric vehicles in the next few years. Chery has indicated that the two brands will quickly grow to encompass eight models, but how many of these will be full EVs is yet to be revealed.  

Peugeot

2024 Peugeot e-408
Peugeot e-408

Peugeot’s EV offerings expanded further in 2024 when the e-3008 electric SUV arrived in showrooms alongside the smaller e-2008 and the e-208 and e-308 hatchbacks. A large new electric SUV was also unveiled with the launch of the e-5008.

Just going on sale is the e-408, a liftback SUV rivalling the likes of the Tesla Model 3 and Polestar 2. Both those rivals also offer ‘long-range’ models but the e-408 will have just one battery size allowing up to 280 miles or so.

The arrival of the e-408 means every model in the mainstream Peugeot range can now be had in petrol, hybrid or electric form, the one remaining non-EV, the 508, having been dropped at the end of 2024.

The next move for Peugeot’s EVs will be longer-range versions of the e-3008 and e-5008, and potentially 4×4 versions of both too. There have also been hints that Peugeot might make an electric performance car – the brand races a hypercar in the World Endurance Championship, including at Le Mans. However we are unlikely to see such a model in 2025.

EVs launching this year

  • Peugeot e-408
  • Peugeot e-3008 (long-range model)

Polestar

Polestar 3 (2024) | Expert Rating
Polestar 3

Production delays resulted in Volvo spin-off performance brand Polestar launching two new models effectively together in 2024. The arrival of the Polestar 3 SUV into showrooms to join the existing and well-received Polestar 2 saloon was originally due in 2023, but instead its launch was rather overshadowed by that of its smaller sister the Polestar 4.

The Polestar 4 attracted controversial comments even outside of the motoring market, due to its lack of a rear windscreen, vision provided by a camera and the resultant freeing up of body dimensions allowing more interior space as a result.

Next from Polestar will be the, you guessed it, Polestar 5, and this is a model much looked forward to by enthusiasts as it will be a four-door GT, built on its own platform instead of a Volvo one and targeting the likes of the Porsche Taycan and Lotus Eletre. The car, which is said to boast super-fast charging, will likely be unveiled towards the end of 2025.

Porsche

Porsche Macan Electric (2024) | Expert Rating
Porsche Macan Electric

Porsche finally doubled its electric credentials in 2024 when the Taycan family car was joined in showrooms by a rather more sporty but much-delayed sister, the Macan Electric – also offered in petrol-engined form.

Porsche’s next EV launches are set to be all-new versions of its Cayman sports car and its drop-top sister the Boxster. Both were due to launch in late 2025 but may be pushed back to 2026.

EVs launching this year

  • Porsche Boxster (to be confirmed)
  • Porsche Cayman (to be confirmed)

Renault

Renault 5 (2024 onwards) Roland Garros - wallpaper
Renault 5

Renault’s sole EV in the early part of 2024 was the Mégane E-Tech family car until its crossover sister launched, reviving the Scenic badge and winning the prestigious European Car of the Year award. Most anticipated, however, is the new EV that will finally go on sale in 2025, again bringing back another old model name in the Renault 5, but applied to a small EV. 

The new 5 is a joint effort with affiliated brand Nissan, which will use the same underpinnings for its next Micra. The Renault will offer two powertrains with 120 and 150hp motors, the latter with a larger battery, but most publicity is over its price, which will start from around £23,000, affordable in EV terms.

Also coming back towards the end of the year is the Renault 4, this time applied to an electric small family car which uses much of the hardware of the Renault 5. The association with Nissan could also lead to the latest Twingo, launching in Europe in 2026, being made for right-hand-drive markets, if the Japanese brand wants its own version (and depending on what happens with the proposed Nissan-Honda merger).

Renault will then take a pause before starting on a next-generation electric family in 2028.  

Rolls-Royce

Roll-Royce Spectre
Rolls-Royce Spectre

The most luxury of luxury brands Rolls-Royce has just one EV at the moment – the Spectre coupé, described as one of the most desirable electric cars on sale. As it should be, with a price tag of £330,000 plus…

The company has announced only this week that Spectre sales have exceeded expectations, and that its second electric model will be unveiled later this year. Logic suggests that this could be a convertible version of the Spectre to replace the previous Wraith drop-top, or it could be an electric version of the Ghost saloon.

Skoda

Skoda Elroq
Skoda Elroq

Volkswagen-owned Czech brand Skoda went through 2024 with just one electric model, the Enyaq SUV, in both standard and coupe form. Right at the end of the year it announced the Elroq, a compact SUV priced from £31.5K, and to start 2025 it has revealed a facelifted version of the Enyaq that will reach the UK in Spring.

Having previously said it would launch six new EVs by 2026, Skoda is yet another manufacturer slowing down its plans as a response to the market. The Epiq, an entry-level small SUV, is still likely to launch in 2025, rivalling the likes of the Renault 4, but a larger model based on a concept called the Vision 7S, and an estate to succeed the Octavia, are likely still a couple of years away.

Smart

Smart #5
Smart #5

The Smart #1 (Hashtag Oone) small SUV was joined in showrooms in 2024 by a coupe model, dubbed the #3 – the largest car ever produced by Smart and rivalling the likes of the Tesla Model Y and Skoda Enyaq.

An even bigger car is on the way in 2025, called the Smart #5 and unveiled first in Australia, which Smart considers a prime market for the revived brand. It will potentially boast two battery options and off-road styling.

There is a #2 in the mix, ironically set to be Smart’s smallest car and effectively a replacement for the old ForTwo. It’s reputedly ready to go into production but awaiting confirmation that it will be profitable.

Subaru

Subaru Solterra | Expert Rating
Subaru Solterra

Subaru continued to offer just one electric model in 2024, the Solterra SUV which is effectively Toyota’s bZ4X underneath but doesn’t share its longer warranty.

Nonetheless, the Solterra has helped distinctly boost Subaru’s UK sales, and the brand is planning to add two more electric models to the range, but likely not until 2026. What the two newcomers will be is yet to be revealed but they are likely to maintain Subaru’s image for high-riding 4×4 models.  

Suzuki

Suzuki e-Vitara
Suzuki e-Vitara

Suzuki, another brand slow to embrace the electric switch, will finally add its first full EV to its current line-up of Toyota-sourced hybrids in 2025 with the launch of the e Vitara. We can expect to see the car in the UK by summertime.

Based on the eVX concept, which was displayed in updated form at the 2023 Tokyo motor show, the e Vitara is again a joint effort with Toyota, which is launching its own version under the revived model name of the Urban Cruiser. The Suzuki will offer two battery sizes and both front and all-wheel-drive powertrains.

Tesla

Tesla Model Y 2025 facelift
Tesla Model Y 2025

The world’s best-selling car gets a facelift in 2025, revealed just this week in China and Asia-Pacific countries, and expected to reach the UK by summer.

Tesla faced plenty of headwinds in 2024, with production problems at its new German factory and a rapidly growing number of competitors – especially from China, whose car companies seem far more able to match Tesla on both price and technology than European brands.

Only the Model 3 and Model Y are widely available in the UK – you can still order a Model S liftback or Model X SUV, but only in left-hand drive and with limited specification choices available. As such, they’re practically non-existent.

Tesla has long been rumoured to be developing a new smaller and cheaper EV with a sub-£25K starting price, and there have been recent indications that this could appear in 2025 as the Model Q. We may even see a production version of the long-awaited Roadster that was first previewed in 2017, but you probably shouldn’t hold your breath on that…

Toyota

Toyota Urban Cruiser
Toyota Urban Cruiser

Toyota may be one of the world’s biggest manufacturers but it has also been one of the slowest to adopt full electrification, with only the somewhat uninspiring bZ4X crossover available in full EV form.

This will change in 2025 with the launch of the new Urban Cruiser, reviving the name but nothing else from a model axed back in 2014. The new car is Toyota’s version of Suzuki’s e Vitara, targeting the likes of the Peugeot e-3008 and new Mini Aceman. It will be available with two battery sizes with a predicted maximum range around 250 miles.

What will follow from Toyota is yet to be revealed, though the brand is known to have made massive investments in new EV models and battery technology after lagging behind the industry leaders for years. The fruits of these labours are likely to start appearing from 2026 onwards.

Vauxhall

Vauxhall Grandland Electric (2024) | Expert Rating
Vauxhall Grandland Electric

Vauxhall’s electric range has continued to expand, now comprising the Corsa electric supermini, Astra family car in hatch and Sports Tourer estate versions, the Mokka small SUV and the two van-based people-carriers, the Combo Life and Vivaro Life.

Joining the line-up late in 2024 was the latest Grandland, an all-new electric SUV related to the e-3008 of sister brand Peugeot. In 2025 the Grandland will gain a longer-range version going more than 400 miles between charges. 

Also on sale from October was the Frontera, the name revived on a new electric SUV replacing the Crossland and pitched as one of the cheapest EVs in the market – at £23,495 it’s priced the same as the version with a petrol engine.

During the year Vauxhall re-committed to its aim to be an electric brand in 2025 but apart from a refresh of the Mokka, there’s no news of any more new EVs on the way this year. 

EVs launching this year

  • Vauxhall Grandland Electric (long range model)
  • Vauxhall Mokka Electric (facelift)

Volkswagen

Volkswagen ID.2 All concept

A quiet year for Volkswagen saw no new additions to the German brand’s already extensive electric line-up following the launch of the ID.7 at the end of 2023, though the large executive newcomer did gain an estate sister, the ID.7 Tourer. There was also a long-wheelbase seven-seat version of the retro-styled ID. Buzz people carrier.

Next in line is a small hatch, the ID.2, set to be revealed before the end of 2025 ahead of going on sale in 2026 and likely to spawn SUV and GT variants. Volkswagen also plans to greatly overhaul its entire electric ID line from 2026, with indications it will be less differentiated from the petrol/diesel car line-up.

Volvo

Volvo EX30 - Expert Rating wallpaper 2024
Volvo EX30

Volvo’s electric offerings adopted a more consistent naming strategy in 2024, ranging from the EX30 small SUV, the EX40 family model with a coupe sibling the EC40, and the EX90, an electric version of the range flagship large SUV.

The big launch in 2025 will be the ES90, Volvo’s first electric saloon and taking on the likes of the BMW i5. Effectively it is an electric S90, and will kick off a clutch of new EV models including the EM90, a luxury electric people carrier. This is likely to be followed by the EX60 mid-sized SUV, but that probably won’t be seen until 2026.

New names

Part of the electric revolution is the proliferation of new car manufacturers hoping to muscle their way into the market. You may not have heard of some of these yet, but they’ll all be here in the UK soon. There have been controversies about heavy Chinese government subsidies for EV manufacturers and unfounded allegations about spyware in Chinese electric cars, but these seem unlikely to slow the onslaught of new makes and models in 2025.

Avatr

Avatr 11

Without doubt a brand that no-one has heard of, Avatr is another Chinese company reported to be to targeting UK sales before the end of 2025.

The brand involves globally-known tech giant Huawei, a Chinese car manufacturer called Changan and battery-maker CATL. It has already launched one model in Thailand, which is a right-hand drive market. The Avatr 11 is described as an upmarket SUV around the same size as a BMW X5.

Leapmotor

Leapmotor C10

You may have guessed from the name that Leapmotor is also a Chinese brand but it is one backed by European giant Stellantis, owner of Peugeot, Citroën, Vauxhall, Alfa Romeo and several other brands. 

Leapmotor will make its UK debut in 2025 with three models – The B10 SUV unveiled at the Paris motor show in September and described as the first of the brand’s B series, a larger sister SUV dubbed the C10 and the T03 small car, set to be one of the cheapest EVs on sale at prices starting from £15,995. 

EVs launching this year

  • Leapmotor T03
  • Leapmotor B10
  • Leapmotor C10

Nio

Firefly hatchback

The long-promised UK launch of Chinese manufacturer Nio is finally expected to happen in 2025 with the brand’s management explicitly stating that a lack of tariffs on Chinese imports, such as have recently been applied in Europe, make the UK a more attractive market to launch in first.  

Nio cars won’t have the name on their badges, however – the company plans to launch under the names Onvo and Firefly. The Onvo L60 will be a coupe-SUV to rival the likes of the Tesla Model Y while the initial Firefly will be a small hatch with Renault’s new 5 in its sights. 

EVs launching this year

  • Onvo L60
  • Firefly small hatchback

Skywell

Skywell BE11

This one we already know a but about – as described in our feature, Skywell has just arrived in the UK with its first model, the BE11, described as a mid-sized electric SUV but in truth pretty big. Towards the end of the year the brand will also launch its Q electric hatchback.

While yet another Chinese brand with major clout behind it, Skywell is not going all guns blazing to establish a UK network, instead using a UK distributor to gradually expand its presence here. 

XPeng

XPeng G6

Chinese brand XPeng, already established in much of Europe and eyeing further rapid expansion, is expected to finally reach the UK in 2025. The brand, which Volkswagen has invested some $700 million to jointly develop new electric vehicles, will be overseen by long-established UK distributor International Motors which already has Isuzu, Subaru and GWM Ora under its wing.

The first XPeng on sale in the UK will be the G6 mid-sized SUV. It has an all-wheel-drive powertrain, 0-62mph times of under four seconds and a claimed maximum range of 342 miles, as well as recharging from 10 to 80% in 20 minutes. 

Aiways

Aiways U5

We reported this time last year that among the many Chinese brands looking to the UK was Aiways, initially with a compact electric crossover dubbed the U5 and possibly the U6 coupe-like SUV.

Apparently, the brand is still looking at such plans, though it has recently pulled out of its home market in China due to an intensive price war. Aiways is also planning more affordable models, and the lack of tariffs on Chinese imports could make the UK a more attractive destination than other European markets.  

Lucid

Lucid Air

American brand Lucid announced in 2022 that it planned to launch in the UK with its upmarket electric rival to the Mercedes S-Class, the Lucid Air. Two years on we are still waiting – the brand recently said it is planning two new models to rival the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y and set to launch in 2026, but offered no indications as to whether its plans still include the UK.

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