Alfa Romeo Junior Elettrica vs Toyota C-HR+

The Alfa Romeo Junior Elettrica is £595 cheaper to buy. The Toyota C-HR+ is cheaper to charge, roughly £136 a year versus £168 for the Alfa Romeo Junior Elettrica, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the Alfa Romeo Junior Elettrica comes out roughly £435 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 176 miles for the Alfa Romeo Junior Elettrica and 235 miles for the Toyota C-HR+ - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The Toyota C-HR+ goes roughly 60 miles further between charging stops. Both rapid-charge to 80% in a similar time, around 27-30 minutes.

The Alfa Romeo Junior Elettrica is the easier car for tight UK car parks: it is 89 mm narrower than the Toyota C-HR+. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 619 mm of total clearance for the Alfa Romeo Junior Elettrica and about 530 mm of total clearance for the Toyota C-HR+. The Alfa Romeo Junior Elettrica also turns in a 0.5 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 Toyota C-HR+. 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.