2020 Mini Cooper Electric

Christian Seabaugh

The 2020 Mini Cooper Electric is a time machine in a lot of ways. Open the driver-side door, slip into the Chesterfield Grey leather buckets, and finger the bright yellow toggle switch at the base of the center stack, and you, like me, might immediately be transferred back to our 2012 Car of the Year program, the first year an electric car competed in our 72-year-old program. Two electric cars competed for the Golden Calipers that year—the Mitsubishi i-MiEV and the Nissan Leaf. The former was little more than a highway-legal electrified golf cart with 62 miles of range and an EPA rating of 112 mpg-e combined. The latter was a Car of the Year finalist but didn’t win because despite its 99 mpg-e EPA score, we were worried about its…

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MotorTrend (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2021

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