Even if you don’t suffer from range anxiety, knowing how far your electric car can travel on a charge is obviously incredibly important. Maybe most of your driving is short-range trips, and you charge at home every night, happily passing by gas stations and public EV chargers alike, except for those rare road trips. Or maybe you often take regional drives in your EV, and are familiar with the nearby charging infrastructure. Either way, no one loves spending time at the public charging station. If you really want to avoid public charging at all costs, you’ll want one of the EVs with the longest range (and if cost is your biggest concern, check out our list of the cheapest EVs available). But if you want to minimize the amount of time you’re waiting at those stations, you’ll also want to make sure you have one of the fastest-charging EVs on the market.
With that in mind, here are the electric cars, SUVs and trucks (that have been announced and are coming soon) that can charge the quickest at a public charger. For these purposes, we’re ranking the cars by their peak charging capability, listed in kilowatts (kW). As the number of fast-charging EVs is increasing rapidly, we’re using 200 kW as the cutoff for this list.
Charging speed variables
Keep in mind, there are a number of variables that affect the practical realities of fast-charging, variables that can specifically slow things down. For instance, EVs don’t maintain that peak charging rate over the course of the charging session. The charge state of the battery affects speed, and the rate will dip significantly when a battery gets to 80% and then plummets to a trickle once approaching 100. EVs also have different size batteries, and a bigger battery will obviously take longer to top off. Furthermore, a lighter, slower vehicle can go more miles on the same amount of electricity than a heavy, fast vehicle like the enormous GMC Hummer EV, so while two vehicles could charge at the same rate, the actual miles being given back to the battery will be different based on that car’s efficiency. Also, things like the age and temperature of the battery
We could have calculated charging rates by miles per hour based on peak charging rate and battery capacity, but due to some of the variables above, those calculations wouldn’t be achievable in the real world. That’s why we landed on peak kW instead for the purposes of this list. We have, however, included manufacturer claims for charging speeds that might help give a better sense of the time it would take to charge the car in ideal conditions. So, without further ado, here are the fastest-charging EVs available now or in the near future.
GMC Hummer EV Pickup peak charging power: 350 kW
GMC claims the Hummer EV Pickup can add nearly 100 miles in 10 minutes.
GMC Sierra EV peak charging power: 350 kW
GMC says the Sierra EV Denali Edition 1 can, like its big brother Hummer, add 100 miles in 10 minutes.
Ram 1500 REV peak charging power: 350 kW
Ram says its soon-to-arrive 1500 REV electric pickup can add 100 miles of range in 10 minutes.
Lotus Eletre peak charging power: 350 kW
Lotus says the Eletre can charge from 10% to 80% in 20 minutes.
Porsche Taycan peak charging power: 320 kW
The 2025 Porsche Tacyan can charge at up to 320 kW, from 10% to 80% in as little as 18 minutes. That’s the same amount of time as the 2024 Taycan (which peaks at 270 kW), despite the new model’s larger battery.
