IN 2023, THE Tesla Model Y wasn’t merely the world’s best-selling electric car – it was the most popular car period. No Taylor Swift tickets, then, for guessing that mid-sized SUVs have the most frenetic market activity of any EV category.
Audi, BYD, Polestar, Porsche, Skoda, and Volkswagen are all set to bring competitors to Australia later in 2024, but right now we have the first-ever electric cars from Ford, Subaru, and Toyota.
Ford has undoubtedly the most controversial nameplate, daring to trade on its V8 muscle-car heritage by calling its battery-powered crossover the Mustang Mach-E.
Subaru has gone all latin with Solterra (a combo of ‘sun’ and ‘earth’), while Toyota has gone leftfield with the alpha-numerical bZ4X.
The Japanese brands’ EVs are more than mere architecture twins like the…
