Abarth 600e vs Alpine A290

The Abarth 600e is £0 cheaper to buy. Running costs are almost identical - about £168 a year either way, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the two land within £80 of each other - effectively the same to own. 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 173 miles for the Abarth 600e and 155 miles for the Alpine A290 - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The Abarth 600e goes roughly 19 miles further between charging stops. Both rapid-charge to 80% in a similar time, around 27-30 minutes.

The Abarth 600e is the easier car for tight UK car parks: it is 44 mm narrower than the Alpine A290. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 621 mm of total clearance for the Abarth 600e and about 577 mm of total clearance for the Alpine A290.

Over a 8-year ownership window EVcarsguide's degradation model projects roughly 84% battery health for the Abarth 600e and 84% for the Alpine A290. 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.