Fiat 600e vs Kia Soul EV

The Kia Soul EV costs £10,300 more than the Fiat 600e. For that premium it adds 27 miles more WLTP range, 35 kW more power and a 1.1s quicker 0-62mph time. On EVcarsguide's combined category scores, the Fiat 600e comes out ahead overall.

The Fiat 600e is £10,300 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 Fiat 600e comes out roughly £10,260 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 Fiat 600e and 234 miles for the Kia Soul EV - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The Kia Soul EV goes roughly 58 miles further between charging stops. A rapid charge to 80% takes around 27 minutes in the Fiat 600e and 47 in the Kia Soul EV, so the Fiat 600e loses less time at each stop. So the Kia Soul EV stops less often while the Fiat 600e stops for less time - pick on which you would rather do.

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 621 mm of total clearance for the Fiat 600e and about 600 mm of total clearance for the Kia Soul EV.

Over a 8-year ownership window EVcarsguide's degradation model projects roughly 84% battery health for the Fiat 600e and 84% for the Kia Soul EV. 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. The Fiat 600e has the longer battery warranty at 8 years, versus 7 for the Kia Soul EV.