BYD ATTO 3 vs Leapmotor B10

The BYD ATTO 3 costs £7,495 more than the Leapmotor B10. For that premium it adds 47 miles more WLTP range, 52 kW faster peak rapid charging and 70 kW more power. On EVcarsguide's combined category scores, the BYD ATTO 3 comes out ahead overall.

The Leapmotor B10 is £7,495 cheaper to buy. The BYD ATTO 3 is cheaper to charge, roughly £160 a year versus £192 for the Leapmotor B10, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the Leapmotor B10 comes out roughly £7,335 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 193 miles for the Leapmotor B10 - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The BYD ATTO 3 goes roughly 70 miles further between charging stops. A rapid charge to 80% takes around 35 minutes in the BYD ATTO 3 and 20 in the Leapmotor B10, so the Leapmotor B10 loses less time at each stop. So the BYD ATTO 3 stops less often while the Leapmotor B10 stops for less time - pick on which you would rather do.

The two are within 10 mm on width, so neither is meaningfully easier to thread into a tight space. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 525 mm of total clearance for the BYD ATTO 3 and about 515 mm of total clearance for the Leapmotor B10.

Over a 8-year ownership window EVcarsguide's degradation model projects roughly 90% battery health for the BYD ATTO 3 and 90% for the Leapmotor B10. 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.