Kia Niro EV vs Toyota C-HR+

The Toyota C-HR+ is £500 cheaper to buy. The Toyota C-HR+ is cheaper to charge, roughly £136 a year versus £176 for the Kia Niro EV, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the Toyota C-HR+ comes out roughly £700 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 194 miles for the Kia Niro EV and 235 miles for the Toyota C-HR+ - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The Toyota C-HR+ goes roughly 41 miles further between charging stops.

The Kia Niro EV is the easier car for tight UK car parks: it is 45 mm narrower than the Toyota C-HR+. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 575 mm of total clearance for the Kia Niro EV and about 530 mm of total clearance for the Toyota C-HR+. The Kia Niro EV also turns in a 0.4 m tighter circle, which helps with U-turns and multi-storey ramps.

Over a 8-year ownership window EVcarsguide's degradation model projects roughly 84% battery health for the Kia Niro EV and 84% for the Toyota C-HR+. 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 Toyota C-HR+ has the longer battery warranty at 8 years, versus 7 for the Kia Niro EV.