Best Electric Cars

Nobody at the Cure EB Silver Butterfly Dinner could tell me what I'd arrived in. Damian Lewis was there, the evening was compered with great charm by Dominic Holland — introduced everywhere, to his evident amusement, as Spider-Man's father — and DS had generously donated a week with the N°8 as a lot in the charity auction, which gives you some idea of the company it keeps. Yet the question I fielded most often that night concerned the long, low, faintly menacing machine parked outside. Nobody knew the badge. Everybody wanted one.

Christmas. Snowdonia. Mud. Ice. Mountains. Yr Wyddfa. Logic suggested I should be flinging a rally-spec electric Mustang up the side of Eryri National Park like some sort of eco-conscious mountain goat. Reality, however, intervened. I took the Ford Mustang Mach-E Rally to The Ritz instead. Champagne. White tablecloths. Soft lighting. Our own table, suspiciously close to David and Victoria Beckham.

Just when I think I'm becoming jaded, Lexus surprises me with something unexpected and cool. They profoundly understand that modern mobility encompasses advanced technology alongside engineering excellence. Lexus fuels its luxury car innovations with research and development funding from mass-market Toyota vehicles. However, Lexus is far more than a souped-up Toyota—it stands apart with a distinctiveness akin to the difference between Bentley and Audi.