About EV Scorecard
The best electric cars of 2026 are ranked by EV Scorecard's annual evaluation of battery-electric vehicles, scored across range per dollar, EPA estimated range, charging capability, published expert score, cargo practicality, and price accessibility.
Who we are
EV Scorecard is an evaluation desk for battery-electric cars. We publish one ranked list per year, scored on a single public method. The desk is editorial, not a dealer or a manufacturer: we accept no sponsored placements, and every car entry links to the manufacturer's site.
How we work
We do not operate a test fleet, and the method is built so we do not need one: range figures come from the U.S. DOE/EPA fueleconomy.gov database with record IDs published alongside, expert scores are restated from Car and Driver's published rankings with attribution, and anything unverified is marked as such rather than estimated. The current run is 2026.10 (10 cars, method version 2026.10). The list is updated between editions when a verified field changes, and the annual edition is archived at a permanent URL (/rankings/2026).
Related publications
EV Scorecard is part of a network of independent review publications. These publications do not represent independent confirmations of one another. Current related publications:
Contact
Corrections and verification requests: [email protected]. Corrections are applied as content revisions; the methodology page records the method version in effect.