2022 Car of the Year finalists revealed - they're all ELECTRIC apart from the Peugeot 308

The new Peugeot 308 – the only ICE car finalist in the 2022 Car of the Year

The final seven cars up for the 2022 Car of the Year award is announced, and all are electric cars apart from the new Peugeot 308.

We all know we’re heading in to an age of electric cars, and car makers are busy rolling out as many EVs as they can muster to grab a chunk of the (legislation-driven) demand for cars with a heavy bank of batteries and electric motors instead of an ICE.

With a plethora of new EVs arriving, it’s inevitable that a chunk of cars up for the 2022 Car of the Year award will be EVs but, when the provisional list of 39 nominations was revealed, there was still a healthy chunk of new ICE and Hybrid models in line for a gong.

They included everything from the Lexus NX to the Nissan Qashqai by way of the Toyota Yaris X, Peugeot 308 and McClaren Artura.

But despite a strong showing for ICE cars in the provisional list of 39, just one ICE car – the new Peugeot 308 – has made the list of seven finalists.

2022 Car of the Year Finalists

• Cupra Born
• Ford Mustang Mach-E
• Hyundai Ioniq 5
• Kia EV6
• Peugeot 308
• Renault Megane e-Tech Electric
• Skoda Enyaq

If all goes as it should, it’ll be the Hyundai Ioniq 5 or Kia EV6 grabbing the Car of the Year gong, but it really doesn’t seem representative of the market that six of the seven finalists are EVs.