What EVs can do more than 500 miles? Here are all the electric cars with the longest range
Sam Burnett
14 May 2026
The Proclaimers were famously prepared to walk that far, but we're not even sure we could drive 500 miles without needing to stop to use the loo or check the latest news on Electrifying.com (ahem).
But there are some loud voices out there who have long proclaimed (pun fully intended) that they wouldn't even set foot in an electric car until they could get one that does 500 miles.
Well, joke's on them because now there are loads (five) of EVs on sale or just on the way that will despatch a half kilo of miles with barely a sweat raised and Ginny has stood next to them all. What are they? Kindly follow me this way...
A 122kWh battery pack! Remember when the Peugeot iOn had 14.5kWh? Those were the days. But that ropy little car couldn't do 567 miles on a full charge and it certainly didn't have the heated seatbelts that are sported by the latest version of the Merc EQS.
Look at that lovely slippery shape – aero is king these days and the EQS glides through the air. Buy one of these and you'll be able to wow people with your talk of the partial-silicon oxide anode technology and new denser battery chemistry that packs in the volts (I might have trailed off when this was being explained to me), but you'll certainly win a game of EV range Top Trumps.
There's no one around who can top the EQS's 567 miles. For now, of course – it seems only inevitable that someone in a lab somewhere is furiously stuffing more lithium-ion into the bottom of a poor SUV to nuzzle it past 570.
The interior is aggressively fashionable with a yoke wheel and the billboard-style Hyperscreen dashboard – more things to show off. The EQS isn't available to order right now, but it will be here before the end of 2026.
BMW's Neue Klasse 3-Series is the new i3, and it gets a chonky old 108.7kWh battery to give it a stonking great WLTP range of 559 miles. That's the 50 xDrive version of the car, that naturally comes with 469hp and two e-motors for four-wheel drive, and it won't be the one in the range that costs £45,000, you expect to pay significantly more than that for this ultra long distance version of the car.
It'll come highly specced, of course, and it will have all the interesting touches that we've appreciated on our 2026 Car of the Year, the iX3 SUV. Things like the impressive weight savings, excellent drive and the 400kW charging system that will make sure you not having to hang around for ages at a charging stop.
Obviously we can see why SUVs have their appeal to people, but this is the new BMW that we'd most like to own ourselves – fun to drive and it'll go on forever. It'll be available to order in the autumn, and keep a beady eye on Electrifying.com for our first drive later this year.
Price: from €130,900 / Range: 508 miles / Battery: 96kWh / Electrifying score: n/a
Let's just get the awkward bit out of the way here – you can't actually buy this car in the UK. You can order one in Germany though, and you'd be able to get it from Frankfurt to London on a single charge in theory. As long as you didn't give in to the dangerous temptations of the derestricted sections of the autobahn.
The little California startup that makes these cars was ahead of the game though – slippery aero, huge batteries and bidirectional charging are all in vogue these days, but the Lucid Air got there a few years ago. It's not been an easy few years, but the company is coming along slowly but surely.
Lucid also controls much of its supply chain, which is a trick that some of the Chinese carmakers are starting to apply to devastatingly profitable effect. We hear that Lucid might finally manage to get along to the UK by 2028, but sadly it won't be with the Air, it'll more likely be bringing something that'll rival the likes of the Volvo EX60 and BMW iX30, a mid-sized fancy SUV.
If this is the starter, we probably won't mind waiting for the main course.
Price: from £57,000 / Range: 503 miles / Battery: 112kWh / Electrifying score: 8/10
Obviously we try hard not to be biased when we're looking at these cars, but there's something just a little bit classier about the Volvo, isn't there? Look at those minimalist lines and the sense of calm you get about the cabin.
If you sat in the EQS for five minutes and closed your eyes you'd still be able to see the Hyperscreen seared onto the back of your retina. And Volvo is rightly pleased about its safety record too, lifting the bar ever higher.
This new EX60 comes with adaptive seatbelts that change how they react in a crash depending on how tall and heavy you are. Isn't that smart? And Volvo is one of the few carmakers that uses crash test dummies that are actually based on women's real bodies, they're not just miniature versions of the male dummies.
Oh and the range, that's good too. A 112kWh battery and 503 miles? Consider us convinced.
Price: from £59,000 / Range: 500 miles / Battery: 109kWh / Electrifying score: 9/10
Look, we don’t want to go on about the innovative chemistry of BMW’s new generation of batteries or the way that they’re packaging the cells these days to make everything lighter and more efficient – the main thing is that the new iX3 is significantly cheaper than the old one and that it’ll manage a baffling 500 miles on a tank of electricity.
But actually you can feel the effort that BMW has put it into making the car lighter when you're behind the wheel, it's just that bit nicer to drive. This car is the first fruit of BMW's new 'Neue Klasse' philosophy where the Munich-based carmaker has reset all the things that were getting a bit out of hand (the weight, the styling, etc) and tried to focus on some of the essentials that make a BMW a BMW.
Has it worked? Well, this isn't our 2026 Car of the Year for nothing. But as you can see from our list, there's going to be quite a fight for the 2027 Car of the Year.
Denza Z9 EV and Yangwang U7? Or the Xiaomi SU7? Good questions – but they probably can't do the 500 miles that we're looking at here. The Denza Z9 has a range rating of around 640 miles, the Yangwang U7's range is 625 miles and the Xiaomi SU7 is rated at 516 miles.
Unfortunately these are all CLTC ratings, which is the test cycle they use in China to give cars their official quoted ranges. The WLTP cycle that we use in Europe is not perfect, but it's a bit stricter than the CLTC to the extent that we'd expect a difference of around 25–30% in the figures. So these cars are close, but not quite.
