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At this year’s Geneva Motor Show, electric vehicles came in all different shapes and sizes.

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Geneva Motor Show goes electric
At this year’s Geneva Motor Show, electric vehicles came in all different shapes and sizes.

Citroen Ami One Vs  Battista by Automobile Pininfarina.

At one end you have the Citroen Ami One, a vehicle which is so small (and slow, with its 28mph top speed) that the French manufacturer believes it could be driven without a driving license.

At the other, you have the Battista by Automobile Pininfarina, a 1,900-horsepower monster with a sub-two second 0-62mph time and a £2 million-plus price tag.

These two cars have little in common, but they are both fully electric, use similar propulsion technology, and can be plugged into the same charger to top up their battery.

And between the Citroen and Battista, Geneva 2019 was host to an eclectic mix of electric and hybrid cars, and, perhaps more importantly, by some margin more vehicles with these powertrains than ever before.

Some could very well become your next car, while others are much more of a gaze into the crystal ball, as evermore manufacturers plot their own particular roadmaps for a battery-powered future that is certainly coming.

Honda stole the car industry’s collective heart with the adorably retro Urban EV Concept back in 2017.

Now, after huge demand, a production version is almost ready, in the form of the e Concept on show at Geneva.

Although the outside has softened into a more rounded and pedestrian-friendly shape, with large A pillars for crash protection, much of the look of the original is still here.

So, too, is the interior, including two huge 12-inch touchscreen displays dominating the entire dashboard, complete with an extra pair of displays acting as wing mirrors in conjunction with external cameras.

The car has a claimed range of 124 miles, and Honda says the battery can refill from empty to 80 per cent in about 30 minutes. This range may sound unimpressive, but Honda sees this as a city car and not one which drivers should rely for long journeys.

Honda says the car shown at Geneva is 98 per cent representative of what the production version will look like, and that orders will open later in 2019.

Looking further forward, Honda said this week that by 2025 its entire range of cars sold in Europe will be electrified – meaning either fully electric, or hybrid.

It was a busy Geneva this year for Aston Martin, which revealed the AM-RB 003 as a car to fit below the flagship Valkyrie, and the Vanquish Vision Concept, which previews the design language of the brand’s first mass-production, mid-engined supercar.

Very little was said about hybridisation and electrification at Geneva, but Aston did say that its all-new V6 engine - to be used by the 003 and production version of the Vanquish Vision – will be a “hybrid turbo” unit.

This differs from the hybrid system employed by the Valkyrie, which adds a naturally aspirated Cosworth V12 to an electric motor and batteries produced by Rimac, but will likely pave the way for a range of hybrids from Aston Martin.

Aston says a production version of the Vanquish Vision will arrive in 2022.

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