Electric powered feats

If you’ve got the need for speed (and money to burn), but fear the impending end of the world, then a hybrid, or all-electric, supercar might just be your next purchase. It certainly was the choice for some 499 very lucky customers who snapped up the hybrid LaFerrari earlier this year.

Fair go too, given battery-powered rubber burners are a literal chance to have your cake, and eat it too. 

So without further ado, let’s look at some other electric supercars on the market.

BMW i8

A celebrity favourite already, BMW’s plug-in hybrid, the i8 coupe, is sleek, sexy and shockingly quick. It only takes about three hours to charge this bad-boy up too. Accelerating to 100km/h in 4.4 seconds, the i8 isn’t just a toy. 

It’s packed with technology, including the ability to send routes to your car from your phone instead of having to fiddle with the in-car system. 

Without fuel however, the battery can only carry you just 37km. 

It’s probably the most affordable model here at around AUD$300,000. 

Mercedes AMG ONE

Mercedes’ electric hypercar, the AMG ONE, fuses F1 technology with hybrid mechanics. They claim the machine can hit 200km/h in six seconds, and reach 350km/h plus. 

It’s propelled by a 1.6L V6 hybrid petrol engine, and is street legal. The team have managed to eliminate turbo-lag with quicker response time when pedal is well and truly applied to metal. 

With some of the other cars in this list, Mercedes seem to be piped both by performance, and emissions. Currently, only the front axle is electric powered and the car can get about as far as 25km on battery only. 

Rimac C-Two

The Rimac C-Two is a site to behold, an electric GT ‘hypercar’. It can hit 100km/h in 1.85 seconds and reach its top speed of 412km/h shortly after that. It comes with butterfly doors (and yes, they are more beautiful than gullwings), bonnet flaps that adjusts the cars profile for aerodynamics, adaptable rear-wing, AI assisted cruise-control, AND it’s push-to-start. 

Did we cover everything? 

Those with serious interest are invited to enquire already. 

Pininfarina Battista

This electric beast from beautiful italian car marker Pininfarina can launch to 100km/h in less than two seconds without a single emission. One charge can see you cover 450km, which is enough mileage to take you from the factory in Turin to Venice via the italian countryside. 

Molto bene! 

The Pininfarina Battista will be ready to roll off the production line in 2020, with only 150 units being produced. 

And it’s road legal. 

Volkswagen ID 

In a move likely inspired by setting the record straight after dieselgate, Volkswagen have just set their fully-electric ID.R supercar alight on the Nurburgring circuit in Germany. 

The car set the track record for all electric vehicles, nailing it in six minutes and 5.3 seconds. 

It even smashed the time for the Lamborghini Aventador SVJ, by half a minute. It also set the record for the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, completing 19.9km in just under eight minutes 

The car is designed as a race car however, to show off the capabilities of electric powered vehicles and is a little teaser of what to expect from the German automakers electric range.