More and more automakers are slowly but surely beginning to electrify their ranges from the casual everyday runabouts all the way through to their sports cars, and in many cases, even their supercars. Vehicles like the Toyota Prius may have led an arguably half-baked revolution toward the hybridization of cars, but it could be accredited with the arrival of many other eco-friendly cars including supercars such as the BMW i8 – a legendary standout and icon in the horde of coupe sports cars. It’s been more than two decades since the Prius’s debut, but hybridization hasn’t yet quite become mainstream. Today, however, we see a clear direction being embraced throughout the automotive industry, and that’s toward pure electrification.
The Advent of Electric Sports Cars
Sports cars have come a really long way over the many years of automotive racing. While we won’t go back in time to discuss what sports cars used to be, below are some brief descriptions of where we’ve come:
Hypercars
There are many car and driving enthusiasts that are convinced electric cars would ruin everything good about classic, gasoline-burning sports cars. But over the short time that automakers have been dipping their toes into the EV realm, it’s already been proven that electrifying supercars and hypercars alike, actually turns out to be otherwise. In fact, it seems as though every new sports car to hit the market is an EV of sorts – there’s the Rimac Nevera, an EV hypercar that accelerates from 0 to 60 mph in a face melting 1.85 seconds and up to a 258 mph terminal velocity.