• Country: Luxembourg
  • Name: Gerhard Kuntschik, President of the Jury Country: Austria Capital: Vienna Population: 9,097,759 Auto Park: 240.000 new registrations (2021)
  • Name: Xavier Daffe Country: Belgium Capital: Bruxelles Population: 11,239,755 Auto Park: 5,9 millions
  • Name: Ilia Seliktar, Honorary President of the Jury and Co-Founder member of the board Country: Bulgaria Capital: Sofia Population: 6,856,602 Auto Park: 2.5 million, year import and registration of new cars - 35 000, second hand - 250 000. Name: Leonid Seliktar Country: Bulgaria Capital: Sofia Population: 6,856,602 Auto Park: 350,000 new vehicles.
  • Name: Ozren Adamović Country: Croatia Capital: Zagreb Population: 3,88 million Auto Park: 1,968,370
  • Name: Petros Soutzis, Co-founder & Vice President of the jury Country: Cyprus Capital: Nicosia Population: 1,141,166 Auto Park: 900,000
  • Name: Vladimir Rybecky Country: Czech Republic Capital: Prague Population: 10 515 669 Auto Park: 6 293 125 registered cars (average age 15,58), 610 405 registered light commercial vehicles, 186 905 registered trucks, 20 489 registered buses (end of the year 2021). Registrations in 2021: 206 876 new cars, 19 660 new LCVs, 8 679 new trucks, 1 367 buses. Car production in 2021: cars 1 105 223, trucks 1 262, buses 4 947.
  • Name: Mikkel Thomsager Country: Denmark Capital: Copenhagen Population: 5,700,000 Auto Park: 2,278,000
  • Name: Tommi Petteri Lempinen Country: Finland Capital: Helsinki Population: 5,300,000
  • Country: France
  • Name: Ioannis Stavropoulos Country: Greece Capital: Athens Population: 10,815,197 Auto Park: 5.200.000 cars, exclude taxi (is about 34.000) LCV and HCV
  • Name: Robert van Ginneken Country: Holland Capital: Amsterdam Population: 17,5 million Auto Park: 9 million of which 400.000 BEV and 145.000 PHEV
  • Name: Gábor Szécsényi Country: Hungary Capital: Budapesta Population: 9,617,512 Auto Park: 4,000,000
  • Name: Achim Stahn Country: Germany Capital: Berlin Population: 83,000,000 Auto Park: 47,700,000
  • Name: Dave Humphreys Country: Ireland Capital: Dublin Population: 6,378,000 Auto Park: 2,515,322
  • Name: Alessio Viola Country: Italy Capital: Rome Population: 60,795,612 Auto Park: 36,900,000
  • Name: Krumislav Barzov Country: Macedonia Capital: Skopje Population: 2,058,539 Auto Park: 400,000
  • Name: Anthony Alfred Darmanin Country: Malta Capital: Valletta Population: 425,000 Auto Park: 410,000 Registered vehicles, approx. 10,000 new vehicles registered each year
  • Name: David Andersen Country: Norway Capital: Oslo Population: 5,136,700 Auto Park: 3 milion
  • Name: Szczepan Mroczek Country: Poland Capital: Warsaw Population: 37,773,915 Auto Park: 25,000,000
  • Name: José Caetano Country: Portugal Capital: Lisbon Population: 10,347,892 Auto Park: 4,480,000
  • Name: Dan Vardie, Founder & Chairman Country: Romania Capital: Bucharest Population: 19,237,691 Auto Park: 8,9 millions
  • Name: Suspended – Petr Menshikh Country: Russia Capital: Moscow Population: 143,975,923
  • Name: Mladen Alvirović Country: Serbia Capital: Belgrad Population: 7,209,764 Auto Park: 2,200,000
  • Name: Rudolf Karpat, Co-founder Country: Slovakia Capital: Bratislava Population: 5,415,949 Auto Park: 2,725,538 Name: Michal Karpat Country: Slovakia Capital: Bratislava Population: 5,5 milion Auto Park: 3,436.018 cars and LCV registered , 2021 sales: 75.700 cars and LCV
  • Country: Slovenia
  • Name: Joan Dalmau Country: Spain Capital: Madrid Population: 46,786,605 Auto Park: 29.9 million vehicles
  • Name: Felix Björklund Country: Sweden Capital: Stockholm Population: 10,23 million Auto Park: 4,887,904
  • Name: Markus Rutishauser Country: Switzerland Capital: Bern Population: 8,306,200 Auto Park: 4,503,339
  • Name: Okan Altan Country: Turkey Capital: Ankara Population: 85 million Auto Park: 25,385,084 (End of 2022, February)
  • Name: Richard Aucock Country: United Kingdom Capital: London Population: 64,511,000 Auto Park: 37,000,000
  • Name: Oleg Vasylevskyi Country: Ukraine Capital: Kiev Population: 42,031,000 Auto Park: 10,950,000 cars and commercial vehicles

EcoBest Challenge 2023:Technical backgrounds, key figures, findings and interpretation19 / 07 / 2023

  • The best outstanding result of this edition is the all-time record for DC Fast Charging for only 4 min for 100 km! This result represents the proof that very soon will be no time difference between charging the battery and filling the tank!
  • At this edition ECOBEST Challenge, none of the 14 models in test surpassed the homologated range under the WLTP cycle. But 6 out of 14 of the mainstream EV cars achieved more than 90% of their homologated WLTP range in real driving conditions. And only 3 reached less than 80% of the WLTP range, a better overall result compared with last year edition of EcoC.
  • As the previous editions of ECOBEST Challenge proved, there is life in the battery after the cluster indicator is zero. 13 of the 14 cars demonstrated a strategic reserve of between 2 and a all-time record of 45 kilometers. Furthermore, only one car stopped once the battery indicator showed zero on the cluster. 
  • With the ECOBEST Challenge, AUTOBEST uses two proprietary indexes. EcoC 1 representing the ratio between the real driving range and the WLTP range. EcoC2 states the actual energy efficiency of EVs, revealing how many kilometers of real driving range a specific car can provide from 1 kWh. The EcoC 2 is the most important expression of the energy efficiency of an EV. With overall good results for EcoC 1 and for `EcoC 2`, this edition proves that most EVs are becoming more efficient with the energy stored in the batteries. Still, compared with 2021 EcoC 2 record of 8.07 km/kWh, the best result of this year is 7,76 km/ kWh, better than last year top 6.65 km/kWh. Six cars are exceeding 6 km/kWh. Two cars were unable to achieve 5 km/kWh.
  • AUTOBEST uses the EcoC 3 index as the ratio between the real energy charged into the battery and the official net capacity, a clear expression of the charging process’s efficiency. To give an even better real-life perspective, we are also introducing a new index, EcoC 4, which measures the car’s actual efficiency, taking into consideration the energy filled in the battery and not the net battery capacity as EcoC 2.
  • The 2023 edition marks a first, as the ECOBEST Challenge received Bureau Veritas certification – a global recognition of the genuine, comprehensive, and innovative methodology employed in testing electric vehicles (EVs) in real traffic conditions and assessing their real-life green credentials in an unbiased manner.
  • For the second year, the ECOBEST Challenge is using an app specially designed to measure the key data through a direct connection to an Xiaomi mobile terminal in the car. With this, AUTOBEST is harnessing a wide range of data & graphs from the testing sessions and the charging process with both AC and DC (HPC). We also have the batteries’ temperatures during different stages of the test and charging. These data’s are available on request. 
  • ECOBEST Challenge is conducted in partnership with VINFAST, the emerging Vietnamese EV producer and a part of the VINGROUP, the largest industrial conglomerate of Vietnam. 
  • AUTOBEST counted on the logistical and technical support of the Italian car publication Quattroruote, the support of Xiaomi for mobile devices, and e-gap to offer remote charging once the batteries were depleted at the end of the test. The app to measure the cars’ data is PKC – Power checK Control, developed by the Italian company  Power Cruise Control.

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