What is the quickest accelerating electric car?

The Rimac Nevera R, at 1.72 seconds from 0-100 km/h — quicker than any combustion production car ever timed.

Can any petrol car accelerate as fast as an electric hypercar?

No production combustion car matches the sub-two-second 0-100 km/h times of the quickest EVs. Instant torque from a standstill and four-motor traction remove the two things that cost combustion cars time: turbo lag and gearshifts.

Records · Acceleration

Zero to 100 km/h, ranked.

The answer

The quickest accelerating electric car is the Rimac Nevera R at 1.72 seconds to 100 km/h. Every car in the top five below out-accelerates any combustion production car ever made — in near silence.

Last verified: July 26, 2026 · Methodology

Electric cars ranked by 0-100 km/h
#	Car	0–100 km/h	Power	Price	Status
1	Rimac Nevera R	1.72 s	2107 hp	€2.3M	Limited series
2	Aspark Owl	1.78 s	1980 hp	€2.9M	Limited series
3	Rimac Nevera	1.82 s	1914 hp	€2.1M	Sold out
4	Automobili Pininfarina Battista	1.86 s	1900 hp	€2.2M	Limited series
5	Xiaomi SU7 Ultra	1.98 s	1548 hp	€70k	In production
6	Lucid Air Sapphire	2.00 s	1234 hp	€249k	In production
7	Zeekr 001 FR	2.02 s	1265 hp	€100k	In production
8	Tesla Model S Plaid	2.10 s	1020 hp	€110k	In production
9	Porsche Taycan Turbo GT (Weissach)	2.20 s	1108 hp	€245k	In production
10	YangWang (BYD) U9	2.36 s	1306 hp	€215k	In production
11	Audi RS e-tron GT performance	2.50 s	925 hp	€160k	In production
12	Hispano Suiza Carmen Boulogne	2.60 s	1114 hp	€1.6M	Limited series
13	NIO EP9	2.70 s	1341 hp	€1.4M	Sold out
14	Maserati GranTurismo Folgore	2.70 s	761 hp	€190k	In production
15	Lotus Evija	2.90 s	2012 hp	€2.7M	Limited series

Announced cars are excluded from this ranking — a claimed 1.9-second launch is marketing until someone times a production car. That rule costs us a few headline entries and buys the list its credibility; see our methodology.

Note how little the price column correlates with the time column: the Xiaomi SU7 Ultra sits among two-million-euro hypercars at a thirtieth of the cost. That collapse is the story of this decade in performance cars.