You’d be right to be a little wary of any list of best EVs. How many choices are there even? Well, a lot more than just a few years ago, and the U.S. will top a million EVs sold in 2023.

That means there’s enough variety for Inverse to get picky. That’s why you won’t find a $100,000 too-big-for-sanity Hummer EV on this list, or for that matter, Ford’s excellent, but too-expensive-for-most-contractors F-150 Lightning. Or Toyota’s BZ4X for its somewhat lackluster range.

While we can't wait for all of the exciting EVs coming in 2024 — ID.Buzz, anyone? — this year was a pretty momentous one for EV releases. In no specific order, here are our EV winners for 2023.

Here’s a sentence that will instantly date me as a millennial: I watched Batman: Mask of the Phantasm so many times as a kid that I wore out the VHS tape.

Released in theaters on Christmas Day 1993, Mask of the Phantasm represents the pinnacle of Batman storytelling. Starring Kevin Conroy as Bruce Wayne/Batman and Mark Hamill as the Joker, it’s a beautifully crafted tale of crime, corruption, and doomed romance that manages to squeeze in a Joker subplot and a retelling of the Dark Knight’s origin story in just 76 minutes.

Inverse caught up with Mark Hamill, who voiced the Joker throughout Batman: The Animated Series, to talk all things Mask of the Phantasm, from his memories of working with the late, great Kevin Conroy to the one thing he’d change if he could make the movie all over again.