Best Electric Cars 2024
The BMW i4 is an electric sedan that skips the hyperbole. Instead, it focuses on blending the brand’s rich history of creating refined, fun-to-drive sedans with a modern EV powertrain. The four-door i4 sedan shares some underpinnings and visual cues with the vaunted 3-series and 4-series Gran Coupe but presents its EV status as a bonus, not a consolation prize. We tend to agree, as the i4 easily earned a place on our Editors’ Choice List. The i4 is offered in four potencies, ranging from 282 horsepower in the base rear-drive eDrive35 all the way up to 536 horsepower in the all-wheel drive M50. All i4s provide a remarkably well-balanced chassis and comfortable ride but complaints regarding a lack of steering feel and feedback persist among the otherwise generally glowing comments in the logbook of our long-term i4 xDrive40. Beyond that, the contemporary BMW interior quality is up to snuff, and the tasteful and functional infotainment system-and-instrument screen offers high-resolution and rich colors, without, critically, letting the horizontally oriented screen overwhelm the interior. Combined with the handsome four-door profile, a handy liftback hatch to ease cargo handling, and enough options and color choices to keep things interesting, the i4 is a solid player that stands on its own, regardless of powertrain.
It wears the sophisticated duds of a luxury sedan, looking similar to the Volvo S60, but the electric Polestar 2 hatchback is built for a gas-free world. Volvo’s EV subsidiary, Polestar, gives the 2 a healthy balance of range and horsepower even in its lowest trim level. The base rear-drive Polestar 2 has 295 ponies with a claimed 320 miles of range. Two all-wheel-drive Polestar 2 hatchbacks are available, one with 416 horsepower and the enthusiast-minded Performance Pack model with 449 horsepower. Both have a manufacturer-claimed 276 miles of range. The Polestar 2’s pricing starts far above the base Tesla Model 3's, but at least it has more range than the Elon's baby. Another thing the Polestar has over the Tesla is a more traditional cockpit, complete with a normal instrument cluster and software backed by Google’s Android. While the Polestar 2 has constantly gained better features, range, and horsepower each model year, it needs to keep growing even stronger to be competitive against other blossoming electric cars such as the BMW i4 and Hyundai Ioniq 6. Even so, the Polestar 2 is an excellent choice for buyers in the electric car segment, and a 2024 Editors' Choice honoree.
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