Electrified Models Make Up Over Half of NACTOY ‘Best of 2025’ List

The NACTOY (North American Car and Truck of the Year) jury awards, to be presented at the Detroit Auto Show next January, have been a tradition for 30 years now.

And in a sign of the times, most of the models vying for top honours this year are electrified. Twelve of the just-announced finalists are all-electric, and several feature hybrid powertrains.

The jury, made up of 50 automotive journalists from Canada and the U.S., selected the finalists from among 56 vehicles that are new or have been significantly reworked for 2025, and are due to go on sale in 2024.

The list includes some models that aren't yet on sale, but have the potential to be big enough in the coming year to make it into the first comparative road tests to be carried out by NACTOY journalists in October.

Once jury members have driven the vehicles, the list will be whittled down to three finalists for each of the three prizes. Those nine finalists will be announced at the Los Angeles Auto Show on November 21, before the overall winners are crowned in Detroit on January 10, 2025.

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