Alfa Romeo Junior Elettrica vs Skoda Elroq

The Alfa Romeo Junior Elettrica is £70 cheaper to buy. Running costs are almost identical - about £152 a year either way, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the two land within £10 of each other - effectively the same to own. 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 176 miles for the Alfa Romeo Junior Elettrica and 234 miles for the Skoda Elroq - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The Skoda Elroq goes roughly 58 miles further between charging stops.

The Alfa Romeo Junior Elettrica is the easier car for tight UK car parks: it is 103 mm narrower than the Skoda Elroq. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 619 mm of total clearance for the Alfa Romeo Junior Elettrica and about 516 mm of total clearance for the Skoda Elroq. The Skoda Elroq also turns in a 1.2 m tighter circle, which helps with U-turns and multi-storey ramps.

Over a 8-year ownership window EVcarsguide's degradation model projects roughly 84% battery health for the Alfa Romeo Junior Elettrica and 84% for the Skoda Elroq. 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. Both batteries carry a 8-year manufacturer warranty.