Photographer: Federico Ciamei for Bloomberg Businessweek
The Best Cars—Including Two Electric Vehicles—I Drove in 2019
Bentley, Ferrari, an underrated Polestar and a surprising Lotus all made the cut.
After a decade of automakers offering throat-clearing concepts and testing prototypes, the electric-car era has begun—finally! Over the past 12 months, car companies have unveiled more than a dozen new electric vehicles, ranging from sports cars that look like modified space ships from the future, Hummer-style electric SUVs, and even a totally carbon-neutral hypercar.
Pininfarina gave us a first drive of the $2.2 million Battista; Tesla smashed the windows of its Cybertruck. Porsche finally put its foot in the electric-vehicle ring with the $185,000 Taycan; and so did Volvo, with its sharp, sexy, range-dominating Polestar 1.