BYD ATTO 3 vs Citroën ë-C3 Aircross

The BYD ATTO 3 costs £13,875 more than the Citroën ë-C3 Aircross. For that premium it adds 127 miles more WLTP range, 120 kW faster peak rapid charging and 147 kW more power. On EVcarsguide's combined category scores, the BYD ATTO 3 comes out ahead overall.

The Citroën ë-C3 Aircross is £13,875 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 Citroën ë-C3 Aircross comes out roughly £13,875 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 263 miles for the BYD ATTO 3 and 158 miles for the Citroën ë-C3 Aircross - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The BYD ATTO 3 goes roughly 105 miles further between charging stops. A rapid charge to 80% takes around 35 minutes in the BYD ATTO 3 and 26 in the Citroën ë-C3 Aircross, so the Citroën ë-C3 Aircross loses less time at each stop. So the BYD ATTO 3 stops less often while the Citroën ë-C3 Aircross stops for less time - pick on which you would rather do.

The two are within 25 mm on width, so neither is meaningfully easier to thread into a tight space. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 550 mm of total clearance for the Citroën ë-C3 Aircross and about 525 mm of total clearance for the BYD ATTO 3. The BYD ATTO 3 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 90% battery health for the BYD ATTO 3 and 90% for the Citroën ë-C3 Aircross. That is close enough that capacity loss should not decide between them. Both use LFP-type cells, which are happy charged to 100% every day. Both batteries carry a 8-year manufacturer warranty.