Your guide to electric car prices and battery ranges for 2025
Analysis: Here’s what’s available if you’re in the market for a new car and want to go electric in 2025
Your electric vehicle options have been multiplying for 2025, with over 100 battery-electric vehicle (BEV) models on the market from over 30 manufacturers. Many models comes with vehicle, battery, horsepower, drive and range options. We have researched the BEV options if you are looking to buy in 2025.
The big news is that many prices have dropped significantly in the past year. We give the 2023 prices for some vehicles based on apples-for-apples pricing in the last year’s guide. You’ll be surprised at some of the price reductions. For example, the Tesla Model 3 RWD has dropped from €54,800 in December 2022 to €41,832 in December 2023 to €37,484 today.
Global competition is driving the price reductions. Where once we had a handful of companies selling BEVs, our 2025 guide has 34 companies selling BEVs here is Ireland. With the best minds around the world developing these BEVs, we are getting better cars at far cheaper prices. While the global competition makes car manufacturing more challenging in many countries, as you can read here, the competition is creating a buyer’s market in Ireland.
From RTÉ Radio 1’s News At One, fall in the number of electric cars sold in first half of 2024
Here are some takeaways from the car sales website and our research for this guide:
(1) Overall new car sales at 121,000 in 2024 are slightly down on the 122,000 of 2023.
(2) Used car imports at close to 60,000 in 2024 are up significantly on the 49,000 of 2023. These imports are mostly conventional petrol and diesel vehicles.
(3) Conventional petrol and diesel new car sales are up a little to 53% in 2024 from 52% in 2023.
(4) Overall EV sales, comprised of battery, plug-in hybrid and hybrid EVs, are just down a little to 47% of new car sales in 2024 compared to 48% 2023.
(5) Battery EV new car sales are down to 14 % in 2024 from 19 % in 2023.
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(6) Plug-in hybrid EV (PHEV) new car sales are up to about 10 % and hybrid EV (HEV) sales are up to about 22 % in 2024. The Ford Kuga is the top-selling PHEV with BMW being the top-selling brand. The Toyota Yaris Cross is the top-selling HEV with Toyota being the top-selling brand.
(7) The VW ID.4 is the top-selling battery EV model, and Tesla is the top-selling battery EV brand in 2024.
(8) Dacia and Hyundai are selling battery EVs for less than €20,000 in 2025.
(9) Citroen is selling the two-seater battery EV Ami for less than €10,000.
(10) At the other end of the price scale, you can buy the Mercedes Mayback for €209,000 or the Porsche Taycan Turbo for €266,000.]
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The UK-based EV Database website provides some great data on all models and is used as the reference for much of the information in this guide. Company and industry sources are also used. Battery capacity in kilowatt-hours (kWh) is provided for each vehicle, again from the EV Database website. We present both the useable and the nominal battery capacity values. The useable battery capacity is always less than the nominal battery capacity. This is important as charging to less than the nominal battery capacity extends the life of the battery.
We also include whether your lithium-ion battery is built with nickel as the main cathode metal, in which case you should only charge to 80 % on a regular basis, or with iron, in which case the manufacturers want you to charge to 100 % on a regular basis. Be sure to follow the manufacturer’s instructions when it comes to charging.
The standardized Worldwide Harmonized Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP) values are published in Ireland for range, and so are used here. We also include in the brackets the real-world range estimate, when fully charged published, by the EV Database website. We are additionally including the acceleration time from 0 to 100 km/h and the horsepower. We do not recommend testing the acceleration numbers, but fast accelerations and high power set EVs apart from conventional cars.
One other piece of the puzzle is the type of drive. Many of these cars are sports cars and come with rear-wheel drive (RWD). Others are made for off-roading and crazy accelerations and are all-wheel drive (AWD). Others have the traditional front-wheel drive. You can read more on the role drives play in cars here.
Each BEV comes with the following information: model, type, price, useable/nominal battery capacity, WLTP range (with the EV Database real-world range estimate in brackets), acceleration time for 0 to 100 km/h, horsepower, type of drive, and the main cathode metal in the battery.
The alphabetical list of cars is a starting reference for BEVs on the market in early 2025. The vehicle type is shown as coupe (c), crossover (x), estate (e), hatchback (h), liftback (l), saloon (s), people carrier (P), utility van (u), or sports-utility van (V).
Please note that there may be typos, errors or omissions, and that there will be variations, for example due to delivery charges. Not all models are included in this guide, and not all 2025 prices were available at time of publication. New vehicle launches are fast and furious in the EV world, and so check with the dealers as to prices, new and premium models, range, and variations for 2025 and beyond.
A6 Sportback e-tron (l) €74,500, 75.8/83 kWh, 627 km, (485 km), 6.0 s, 322 hp, RWD, nickel.
RS e-tron GT Performance (s) €177,650, 97/105 kWh, 592 km (525 km), 2.5 s, 911 hp, AWD, nickel.
Q4 e-tron, (V) €58,980, 77/82 kWh, 563 km (420 km), 6.7 s, 322 hp, RWD, nickel.
SQ6 e-tron (V) €107,235, 94.9/100 kWh, 598 km (470 km), 4.3 s, 509 hp, AWD, nickel.
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