Alpine A390 vs Renault Scenic

The Alpine A390 costs £24,395 more than the Renault Scenic. For that premium it adds 40 kW faster peak rapid charging, 134 kW more power and a 4.0s quicker 0-62mph time. The Renault Scenic is not just cheaper - it also offers 47 miles more WLTP range. On EVcarsguide's combined category scores, the Alpine A390 comes out ahead overall.

The Renault Scenic is £24,395 cheaper to buy. Running costs are almost identical - about £176 a year either way, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the Renault Scenic comes out roughly £24,355 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 288 miles for the Alpine A390 and 274 miles for the Renault Scenic - effectively matched, and both well below their WLTP figures because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. A rapid charge to 80% takes around 25 minutes in the Alpine A390 and 37 in the Renault Scenic, so the Alpine A390 loses less time at each stop.

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 536 mm of total clearance for the Renault Scenic and about 515 mm of total clearance for the Alpine A390.

Over a 8-year ownership window EVcarsguide's degradation model projects roughly 84% battery health for the Alpine A390 and 84% for the Renault Scenic. 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.