Cars with the highest top speed

For quite some time now, electric cars have been popular not only for being economical but because of the amounts of torque and power on offer.

The lack of multiple gears and the instant throttle response from the electric motors mean that performance guises can barrel on to ludicrous top speeds often only seen in ICE vehicles. Here’s our pick of the fastest electric cars.

McMurtry Spierling

For a whopping £820,000, you can have a road-going version of the mighty McMurtry Spierling: a 1100bhp twin-motor single-seater that’ll do 150mph and return 300 miles if you tread lightly on the go-quiet pedal.

It was first presented at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in 2021 and it returned in 2022, setting a new hill climb record and completing the 1.16-mile course in 39.08sec. It also snatched the record for the quickest accelerating road car using GPS timing gear with 0-60mph arriving in just 1.4sec and 0-100mph in just 2.6sec. This is thanks to a fan fitted to the underside of the car which sucks it into the road to better downforce.

Tesla Model X Plaid

When Tesla teased the Plaid, it gained instant popularity on social media due to its rapid acceleration - 0-60mph in 2.5sec and a quarter mile time of around 10sec. 1020bhp is enough to shove this 2.6-tonne SUV to a top speed of 163mph and it’ll deliver 311 miles on a single charge.

More so, buyers also get the yoke-style steering wheel in the UK as nowhere does it state that a steering wheel has to be round. Prices start from £125,000.