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A three-row family SUV that beat every luxury model on the list, a tie for first place between a Rivian and a Lucid, an electric SUV with simulated gear shifts — Edmunds' 6 category winners for 2026, based on weeks of real-world driving and track testing
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EV demand has cooled and federal tax credits have disappeared, but electric SUVs remain a genuinely strong category, according to Edmunds, whose editors had to go eight vehicles deep on their small electric SUV list before finding one that scored below a 7 out of 10, with most top picks landing closer to 8.
Edmunds based these rankings on multiple weeks of real-world driving, including its own EV range test measuring actual distance on a full charge, alongside instrumented testing at its private test track, splitting winners across six distinct size and market categories.
