Overview Leaderboard Methodology
Industry Report

Electric Passenger Cars

Battery-electric sedans, hatchbacks, and compact SUVs sold to general consumers by automotive marques competing on range, performance, price, and features.

Brands tracked: 34
Brands analyzed: 34
Last updated: 2026-04-23
Model: OpenAI GPT-5
Prompts: 266
Total responses: 1,359
Top Brand Overall?
Tesla
85/100

Highest overall AI Visibility Score in this industry.

LBA Leader?
Mercedes-Benz
99

Highest score on the LBA metric.

Authority Leader?
Tesla
68

Highest score on the Authority metric.

TOM Leader?
Tesla
100

Highest score on the TOM metric.

Tesla is the default answer in AI responses for Electric Passenger Cars

Tesla and Hyundai together dominate AI responses for Electric Passenger Cars. Both brands consistently surface unprompted, with the model treating them as the default answers for most category queries. Brands outside the top two face a structural disadvantage: users are usually given these two before the model even considers alternatives.

Brand Leaderboard All 34 Electric Passenger Cars brands ranked

Ranked by overall AI Visibility Score (geometric mean of LBA, Authority, and TOM). Click any brand for the full report.

# Brand LBA Authority TOM Overall
1
Tesla
tesla.com
 91
68
100
85
2
Hyundai
hyundai.com
 87
65
90
80
3
Kia
kia.com
 90
30
71
57
4
Chevrolet
chevrolet.com
 75
59
19
44
5
BMW
bmw.com
 86
12
61
40
6
Volkswagen
vw.com
 85
8
39
30
7
MINI
mini.com
 75
14
7
20
8
LUCID
lucidmattress.com
 71
2
41
18
9
Mercedes-Benz
mercedes-benz.com
 99
0
52
4
10
BYD
byd.com
 83
0
22
3
11
Polestar
polestar.com
 72
0
23
3
12
Rivian
rivian.com
 66
0
11
2
13
M
MG
mgmotor.com
 74
0
3
1
14
Renault
renault.com
 82
0
2
1
15
Aion
gacaion.com
 66
0
0
0
16
Avatr
avatr.com
 52
0
0
0
17
Care by Volvo
volvocars.com
 52
0
0
0
18
CUPRA
cupraofficial.com
 71
0
0
0
19
Deepal
deepal.com.cn
 46
0
0
0
20
DS Automobiles
dsautomobiles.com
 54
0
0
0
21
Fisker
fiskerinc.com
 52
0
0
0
22
IM Motors
immotors.com
 61
0
0
0
23
Leapmotor
leapmotor.net
 50
0
0
0
24
NIO
nio.com
 72
0
0
0
25
Opel
opel.com
 70
0
0
0
26
ORA
oraev.com
 51
0
0
0
27
Peugeot
peugeot.com
 78
0
0
0
28
President
nissan-global.com
 7
0
0
0
29
S
Seres
seres.com
 42
0
0
0
30
Smart
smart.com
 62
0
0
0
31
VinFast
vinfastauto.com
 57
0
0
0
32
V
Voyah
voyah.com.cn
 53
0
0
0
33
XPeng
xpeng.com
 71
0
0
0
34
Zeekr
zeekrglobal.com
 67
0
0
0

How is this calculated? Methodology

Every brand in this leaderboard is scored against the same set of 266 shared Electric Passenger Cars prompts. The same prompts, same model, same iterations. So differences in scores reflect actual differences in AI visibility, not differences in measurement.

Overall AI Visibility Score
Geometric mean of LBA, Authority and TOM: (LBA × Authority × TOM)^(1/3). Geometric mean is used so that any single weak metric pulls the overall score down, rather than being masked by strength elsewhere.
Shared industry prompts
For Authority and TOM, all brands in the industry are scored against the same 266 category prompts (e.g. "best SEO tools for agencies"). This makes brand-to-brand comparisons valid - everyone faces identical inputs. LBA prompts are per-brand because they ask brand-specific questions.
Latent Brand Association (LBA)
5 brand probes + 1 control prompt, each run 5 times in recall mode (no web search). LBA = quality × meta × stability × share × recognition × 100. Read the full LBA methodology →
LLM Authority
50 organic category prompts (discovery, comparison, problem and transactional intents), each run once in recall mode and once in retrieval mode. Score = frequency × log-decayed prominence × intent weight, then 50/50 averaged across the two modes. Read the full Authority methodology →
Top of Mind (TOM)
15 high-volume discovery prompts (sourced from Keywords Everywhere search-volume data), each run 5 times in pure recall mode (no web). Score = frequency × (0.5 + 0.5 × log-prominence), volume-weighted. Read the full TOM methodology →