The march towards electrification is accelerating, and if any sector serves to highlight the permanent shift towards all things battery-powered, it's the sports car class.

Traditionally the preserve of petrol-soaked, adrenaline-pumping machines, this rarefied corner of the market has seen ever-increasing numbers of contenders favouring lithium-ion over super unleaded. Now, some of the best sports cars on sale are electric. 

Not only is this new source of power delivering the sort of power and performance that internally combusted alternatives could only dream about, it's also broadening the definition of a what a high performance car can be.

That's why our list runs the gamut from traditional low-slung sportsters through to curvaceous coupés, continent-crushing GTs and even (whisper it) the odd SUV.

There are cars from established players of a driver's car art, as well as those from makers more normally associated with humbler offerings. If nothing else, the EV revolution has helped level the playing field. Yet while these machines look disparate on paper and in the metal, they all share a similar goal of keeping the driver amused.

This is also one of the most fast-moving market sectors, with new additions arriving all the time; which means some of the cars you see here you can drive out of a showroom today, while others are little more than a line in an order book.

Thankfully, the number of options is growing year-on-year. So let's great straight into it, and run through the best electric sports cars money can buy today. 

Best electric sports cars