Abarth 600e vs Kia Soul EV

The Kia Soul EV costs £3,300 more than the Abarth 600e. For that premium it adds 74 miles more WLTP range. The Abarth 600e is not just cheaper - it also offers a 1.7s quicker 0-62mph time. On EVcarsguide's combined category scores, the Abarth 600e comes out ahead overall.

The Abarth 600e is £3,300 cheaper to buy. Running costs are almost identical - about £160 a year either way, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the Abarth 600e comes out roughly £3,260 cheaper overall. These figures cover list price and home charging only - insurance, servicing, tyres and depreciation will move the real total.

EVcarsguide estimates a real-world motorway range of about 173 miles for the Abarth 600e and 234 miles for the Kia Soul EV - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The Kia Soul EV goes roughly 61 miles further between charging stops. A rapid charge to 80% takes around 27 minutes in the Abarth 600e and 47 in the Kia Soul EV, so the Abarth 600e loses less time at each stop. So the Kia Soul EV stops less often while the Abarth 600e stops for less time - pick on which you would rather do.

The two are within 21 mm on width, so neither is meaningfully easier to thread into a tight space. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 621 mm of total clearance for the Abarth 600e and about 600 mm of total clearance for the Kia Soul EV.

Over a 8-year ownership window EVcarsguide's degradation model projects roughly 84% battery health for the Abarth 600e and 84% for the Kia Soul EV. That is close enough that capacity loss should not decide between them. Both use NMC-type cells, so for daily use keep the charge limit near 80% to slow degradation. The Abarth 600e has the longer battery warranty at 8 years, versus 7 for the Kia Soul EV.