Citroën ë-C3 vs Cupra Raval

The Cupra Raval costs £7,000 more than the Citroën ë-C3. For that premium it adds 70 miles more WLTP range, 58 kW faster peak rapid charging and 131 litres more boot space. On EVcarsguide's combined category scores, the Cupra Raval comes out ahead overall.

The Citroën ë-C3 is £7,000 cheaper to buy. The Cupra Raval is cheaper to charge, roughly £152 a year versus £184 for the Citroën ë-C3, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the Citroën ë-C3 comes out roughly £6,840 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 94 miles for the Citroën ë-C3 and 139 miles for the Cupra Raval - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The Cupra Raval goes roughly 45 miles further between charging stops. A rapid charge to 80% takes around 36 minutes in the Citroën ë-C3 and 23 in the Cupra Raval, so the Cupra Raval loses less time at each stop. That makes the Cupra Raval the stronger long-distance car.

The two are within 29 mm on width, so neither is meaningfully easier to thread into a tight space. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 645 mm of total clearance for the Citroën ë-C3 and about 616 mm of total clearance for the Cupra Raval. The Citroën ë-C3 also turns in a 0.3 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 Citroën ë-C3 and 90% for the Cupra Raval. 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.