With electric trucks and SUVs coming, is it time to reevaluate what a green car means? (greencarreports.com)

Over the past ten years, the green-car landscape has made progress in fits and starts. 

Since the 2011 Nissan Leaf that we named our original Best Car To Buy—rated at just 73 miles—electric cars have evolved rapidly. In 2020, Tesla rolled out range boosts for all of its models—including a 402-mile Model S. Lucid announced a model that will cover more than 500 miles on a charge. Rivian trucks with more than 400 miles of range are due to be delivered in 2021. And a Ford electric vehicle that achieves 300 miles—the Mach-E—is being delivered right now. 

Amid this fixation on range—and the correspondingly heavier manufacturing footprint for vehicles with such huge battery packs—we continue to wonder if we should have set an efficiency cutoff for electric vehicles. And should it be versus other electric vehicles, or versus equivalent gasoline models?