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And then, EVs Got Their Style

DEUS, fresh from the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, brought their Vayanne all-electric hypercar. With mechanical development from F1’s Williams and a body from Italdesign, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a future Ferrari.

It’s time for a new generation of electric vehicles – with elegance says David Traver Adolphus

Electric vehicles have been, let’s face it, traditionally terrible-looking. With maximum aerodynamic efficiency first and looks a distant last, they have run the gamut from ‘Angular Pufferfish’ (Honda CUV) to Sack of Broken Glass (Tesla Cybertruck). Even new mainstream EVs, like a Toyota bZ4X or VW ID.4 are just fat, grille-less interpretations of existing crossovers, maybe with some fancy LED headlights or shiny cladding that a focus group thought was vaguely technological. A range-topping Tesla

Model S is impressive but looks like it was drawn up 20 years ago. That cautious approach died this year. A few mainstream brands, like Kia with its fresh EV6, had started to break the mould, but were still working within a traditional design framework. An EV6 looks good, but it could also be mistaken for a small Range Rover.

Aside from the need to meet safety regulations, and have wheels and passengers, there’s no reason EVs need to look like existing cars, which automakers once knew but long since forgot. If you look at, say, Paul Arzens’ L’Œuf électrique from 1938, it was built completely around the passenger, a literally clear egg with all the mechanicals tucked away in the back.

It may have taken another 84 years and the eve of widespread EV adoption, but

Much like Cadillac, the Lexus ‘Electrified Sport’ is a concept in name only. It will become the electric successor to the legendary LFA. It takes classic long deck, short cockpit sports car proportions and plays with them in ways that would be impossible with an engine under the hood.