The World Car Awards named their 2022 winners in a rite at this year’s New York Auto Show. Reflecting how the global automotive market is moving from combustion to electrification and demonstrating how emission-free cars are equivalent to or better than their petrol or diesel counterparts, purely electric cars have won the most prestigious awards.
The first prize, World Car of the Year, went to the Hyundai Ioniq five, an all-electric SUV from a Korean automaker. The Ioniq five won two more awards, winning the honors of World Electric Vehicle of the Year and Global Car. Design of the year.
The global luxury car of the year awarded to Mercedes-Benz EQS, a high-end all-electric sedan from the German automaker. Another all-electric German vehicle, the Audi E-Tron GT, won the Global Performance Car of the Year award. The World Urban Car of the Year award went to the Toyota Yaris Cross, a Japanese subcompact that is not sold in the North American market.
Launched in 2004, the annual World Car Awards celebrate its 18th anniversary. According to a 2021 media report through Cision Insight, this is the world’s number one awards program for the ninth consecutive year in terms of media and research of the twenty most sensitive in the world. -five markets. This year’s jury is made up of 103 professional automotive experts, a varied organization from around the world, who are tasked with testing, comparing and voting for the most productive vehicle in the category.
“It is the project of the World Car Awards and its more than one hundred global juries to recognize, praise and motivate automotive excellence, leadership and innovation in an evolving automotive industry on a global scale,” the organization said. For more information, stop by the World Car Awards.