EV success at 2024 Autocar awards

EVs enjoyed a roaring success in the 2024 Autocar magazine awards announced last week.

Autocar is one of the UK’s leading car magazines with its annual awards highly coveted. Many of Ohme’s charging partners also enjoyed success with the Cupra Born taking the award for Best Electric Car.

“Affordable, usable, multi-talented and genuinely appealing electric vehicles like the Cupra Born are going to be so important over the coming years… the Cupra Born remains the car we would recommend to anyone looking to replace their hard-working family hatchback with an electric alternative that they can afford,” wrote Autocar.

Next up was the Best Performance Car where the superb all-electric hot hatch, the Hyundai Ioniq N took the honours.

“Anyone worried that an electric future might spell the end of fun on four wheels can rest easy, the Ioniq 5N is a car that’s huge fun to drive on road and track and also happens to be electric,” they wrote. “It’s laugh-out loud absorbing at ten-tenths yet still amusing and genuinely engaging on an average B road.

Taking the award for Best Large car was the striking seven-seat Kia EV9.

“Everywhere you take the EV9, people ask you what it is…. this is a car just landed from a sci-fi movie set. The EV9 is also an impressively usable, really spacious and versatile electric car. This company has been talking about taking on the big players for many years. Those players have been on notice. Now the talking is over.”

And the last EV to take one of Autocar’s awards, this time for best saloon, was the stylish new Volkswagen ID.7, about which they said:

“This is an electric saloon that makes few if any demands of its driver, combining superb road manners with intuitive drivability that makes any journey a cinch.”