List of production battery electric vehicles (table)

Selected production vehicles

See also : List of production battery electric vehicles

Selected list of battery electric vehicles include (in chronological order):

Name	Comments	Production years	Number produced (less than or estimate)	Top Speed (mph or km/h)	Cost	Range (m or km)
Baker Electric Baker Motor Vehicle Baker Motor Vehicle Company was a manufacturer of Brass Era electric automobiles in Cleveland, Ohio from 1899 to 1914.-History:The first Baker vehicle was a two seater with a selling price of US$850. One was sold to Thomas Edison as his first car. Edison also designed the nickel-iron batteries used...	The first electric car. Reputedly easy to drive.	1899-1915	5000	14 miles per hour (23 km/h)	US $2 300	50 miles (80 km)
Detroit Electric Detroit Electric Detroit Electric was an automobile brand produced by the Anderson Electric Car Company in Detroit, Michigan. Nowadays, a Chinese British entrepreneur is leading Detroit Electric to develop affordable and high quality pure electric vehicles in mainland Europe...	Sold mainly to women and physicians.	1907-1939	5000	20 miles per hour (32 km/h)	>US $3 000 depending on options	80 miles (129 km)
Henney Kilowatt Henney Kilowatt The Henney Kilowatt was an electric car introduced in the United States for the 1959 model year.-Corporate funding:The Henney Kilowatt was a project of National Union Electric Company, a conglomerate including Emerson Radio, and Henney Motor Company, which had purchased Eureka Williams in 1953. The...	The first transistor Transistor A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify and switch electronic signals and power. It is composed of a semiconductor material with at least three terminals for connection to an external circuit. A voltage or current applied to one pair of the transistor's terminals changes the current... -based electric car; outfitted with modern hydraulic brakes.	1958–1960	50	60 miles per hour (97 km/h)	US $3,600 (1960 model)	over 60 miles
Peugeot 106 électrique Peugeot 106 The Peugeot 106 is a supermini produced by French automaker Peugeot from 1991 to 2004.-Phase I:The Peugeot 106 was introduced on 12 September 1991, as the French marque's entry level car slotting in beneath the 205 - although it is now largely considered the 'true' replacement to the 205. It was a...	Built by Heuliez Heuliez Heuliez is a French company that works as a production and design unit for various automakers. It specializes in producing short series for niche markets, such as convertibles or station-wagons.... and also sold under the name Citroën Saxo. Mainly sold to French administration. Nickel-cadmium battery Nickel-cadmium battery The nickel–cadmium battery ' is a type of rechargeable battery using nickel oxide hydroxide and metallic cadmium as electrodes.... powered.	1995-2003	6400	90 kilometres per hour (56 mph)		100 kilometres (62 mi)
General Motors EV1 General Motors EV1 The General Motors EV1 was an electric car produced and leased by the General Motors Corporation from 1996 to 1999. It was the first mass-produced and purpose-designed electric vehicle of the modern era from a major automaker, and the first GM car designed to be an electric vehicle from the...	For lease only, all recovered from customers by GM, most destroyed.	1996-2003	2000	80 miles per hour (129 km/h)	~ US $40 000 without subsidies Subsidy A subsidy is an assistance paid to a business or economic sector. Most subsidies are made by the government to producers or distributors in an industry to prevent the decline of that industry or an increase in the prices of its products or simply to encourage it to hire more labor A subsidy (also...	150 miles (240 km), (Gen II 1999, NiMH)
Honda EV Plus Honda EV Plus The Honda EV Plus was the first battery electric vehicle from a major automaker with non-lead acid batteries. Roughly 340 EV Plus models were produced and released. The EV Plus was taken out of production in 1999 when Honda announced the release of its first hybrid electric vehicle, the Honda Insight...	First BEV from a major automaker without lead acid batteries. Twenty-four 12-volt NiMH batteries Nickel metal hydride battery A nickel–metal hydride cell, abbreviated NiMH, is a type of rechargeable battery similar to the nickel–cadmium cell. The NiMH battery uses a hydrogen-absorbing alloy for the negative electrode instead of cadmium. As in NiCd cells, the positive electrode is nickel oxyhydroxide...	1997–1999	350	80 miles per hour (129 km/h)	US $455/month for 36 month lease Lease A lease is a contractual arrangement calling for the lessee to pay the lessor for use of an asset. A rental agreement is a lease in which the asset is tangible property... ; or US $53 000 without subsidies	80–110 miles (130–180 km)
Toyota RAV4 EV Toyota RAV4 EV The RAV4 EV was an all-electric version of the popular RAV4 SUV produced by Toyota. It was leased from 1997 to 2003, and at the lessees request, many units were sold after the vehicle was discontinued. A total of 1,485 were leased and/or sold in California to meet the state’s mandate for...	Some leased and sold on US east and west coasts, supported. Toyota agreed to stop crushing.	1997–2002	1249	125 kilometres per hour (78 mph)	US $40 000 without subsidies	80-120 miles (130-190 km)
Ford Ranger EV Ford Ranger EV The Ford Ranger EV is a battery electric vehicle produced by Ford Motor Company. It was produced starting in the 1998 model year through 2002 and is no longer in production. It is built upon a light truck chassis used in the Ford Ranger. A few vehicles with lead-acid batteries were sold, but most...	Some sold, most leased; almost all recovered and most destroyed. Ford allowed reconditioning and sale of a limited quantity to former leaseholders by lottery. Estimated only 200 surviving.	1998-2002	1500		~ US $50 000; subsidized to $20 000
Nissan Altra EV	Mid-sized station wagon Station wagon A station wagon is a body style variant of a sedan/saloon with its roof extended rearward over a shared passenger/cargo volume with access at the back via a third or fifth door , instead of a trunk lid... designed from the ground up as the first BEV to use Li-ion batteries, 100000 miles (160,934 km) battery lifetime.	1998–2000	140	75 miles per hour (121 km/h)	US $470/month lease Lease A lease is a contractual arrangement calling for the lessee to pay the lessor for use of an asset. A rental agreement is a lease in which the asset is tangible property... only	120 miles (193 km)
Global Electric Motorcars Global Electric Motorcars Global Electric Motorcars , a wholly owned subsidiary of Polaris Industries, is a U.S. manufacturer in the low-speed vehicle category, producing neighborhood electric vehicles since 1998 and has sold more than 45,000 GEM battery-electric vehicles worldwide as of December 2010.Until June 2011, GEM...	NEV	1998-	> 35000	25 miles per hour (40 km/h)
THNK City Think Nordic Think Global is an electric car company located in Oslo, Norway, which manufactures cars under the TH!NK brand. Production of the Th!nk City was stopped in March 2011 and the company filed for bankruptcy on June 22, 2011, for the fourth time in 20 years; but the company was bought soon after by...	Two seat, Nickel-cadmium batteries Nickel-cadmium battery The nickel–cadmium battery ' is a type of rechargeable battery using nickel oxide hydroxide and metallic cadmium as electrodes.... . Next generation vehicle production planned for fall 2007.	1999-2002	1005	90 kilometres per hour (56 mph)	NOK 199 000	85 kilometres (53 mi)
REVA REVA The REVAi, known as G-Wiz in the UK, is a small micro electric car, made by the Indian manufacturer REVA Electric Car Company since 2001...	Indian-built city car City car A city car is a small car intended for use primarily in an urban area.City cars are sold worldwide and most automotive industry manufacturers have one or two in their line-up. In North-America city cars are often referred to simply as "subcompacts" alongside the superminis. These kind of cars... (sold in England as the "G-Wiz").	2001-	2000	45 miles per hour (72 km/h)	~£8 000
ZAP Xebra	Chinese built sedan and truck	2006-	200	40 miles per hour (64 km/h)	US $10 500
Modec Modec Modec was a Coventry, UK electric vehicle manufacturer, specialising in Commercial vehicles in the N2 category. It unveiled its first model in April 2006 and announced its intention to commence series production in March 2007, with the first production vehicles destined for Tesco...	UK built trucks and Vans	2007-	100
Cleanova Cleanova Cleanova are a set of plug-in hybrid vehicles by the Société de Véhicules Electriques , a joint venture between Dassault and Heuliez. Cleanova II is based on Renault Kangoo....	French built delivery vans		7000
Smart fortwo ED	micro car, only used for pilot project	2008	100	120 kilometres per hour (75 mph)	-	110 kilometres (68 mi)
Tesla Roadster Tesla Roadster The Tesla Roadster is a battery electric vehicle sports car produced by the electric car firm Tesla Motors in California. The Roadster was the first highway-capable all-electric vehicle in serial production available in the United States. Since 2008 Tesla has sold 2,024 Roadsters in 30 countries...	Sold to customers in the United States and Europe. and 1,000 produced as of January 2010.	2008-	1,000 (up to January 2010)	130 miles per hour (209 km/h)	US $92 000 base price	220 miles (354 km) ^{(based on EPA combined city/highway cycle)}
Mitsubishi i MiEV Mitsubishi i MiEV The Mitsubishi i-MiEV is a five-door hatchback electric car produced by Mitsubishi Motors, and is the electric version of the Mitsubishi i. According to the manufacturer, the i-MiEV all-electric range is on the Japanese test cycle...	Fleet leasing began in July 2009, and sales to the public in Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... in April 2010 and in Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour... in May 2010.	2009-	5,000 up to Nov 2010	80 miles per hour (129 km/h)	4 million yen Japanese yen The is the official currency of Japan. It is the third most traded currency in the foreign exchange market after the United States dollar and the euro. It is also widely used as a reserve currency after the U.S. dollar, the euro and the pound sterling... (~USD43,000)	100 miles (161 km)
Nissan Leaf Nissan Leaf Nissan introduced its first battery electric vehicle, the Nissan Altra at the Los Angeles International Auto Show on 29 December 1997. The Altra EV was produced between 1998 and 2002, only about 200 vehicles were ever produced, and it was mainly used as a fleet vehicle for companies such as...	Introduced in Japan and the U.S. in December 2010.	2010-		150 km/h (93.2 mph)	million (~) in Japan in the U.S.	73 miles (117 km) (EPA) 100 miles (161 km) (Nissan)