5 Most efficient, 5 longest range EVs for 2026

Not having enough juice to make it to one’s destination was the root of so-called range anxiety

When electric vehicles started to enter the mainstream a few years ago, NRCan wisely looked into its crystal ball and decided it needed to invent a new metric to measure efficiency. The hook of ‘Litres Per 100 Kilometres’ (L/100 km) is easily recognizable to most Canadian drivers, so the boffins set about creating an equivalent for EVs. The result, written as Le/100 km and intended to be easily comparable to L/100 km, translates the amount of energy packed into electricity to an equivalent amount of energy in gasoline.

Physics teaches us that energy is required in order to move an object, so this makes a dose of sense. For EVs so rated, the number shown is the equivalent amount of gasoline required to produce the same amount of energy the vehicle uses in electricity to travel 100 kilometres. Confused?

Understandable. Think of it this way: if you and yer buddy are both cycling on a trail, your bikes don’t care if you’re fuelled by tacos and your friend is fuelled by fish & chips. Either way, energy is created by food and that energy is being used to move the bicycle.

Most efficient EVs in Canada for 2026 That said, this

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author is now hungry. Here are the top five most efficient EVs as rated in Le/100 km on the combined driving cycle by NRCan scientists. Tesla Model Y: 1.7 Le/100 km What turns out to be the electric equivalent of a fuel sipper is the Tesla Model Y, a vehicle which sells in great numbers despite no shortage of bluster about the brand and the person at its helm. In fairness, being extremely stingy with electrons while also having a practical form factor and bearing an attractive sticker price which dips into EVAP rebate territory also helps sales. The total range of this vehicle is said to be 463 kilometres. Tesla Model 3: 1.7 Le/100 km Who’da thunk that a vehicle with largely the same electric powertrain and sharing a wide array of other parts could equal its fraternal brother in efficiency? With a stated all-electric range of 463 kilometres, remarkably equivalent to the Y, the Model...

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