While purely electric cars do have some limitations, usually including a lower range and higher weight, unlike a normal gasoline powered car they do hold the advantage of having all of their torque available from a standstill. This attribute means that electric cars can often out accelerate their petrol driven counterparts, especially at lower speeds. The vehicles on this list are not one offs – some are production models, while others are low volume cars. All except for one are road legal, though a couple of them are either out of production or not available in North America. Here is our list of the top ten high performance electric vehicles, sorted by their 0 to 62 mph times from slowest to fastest.