Alfa Romeo Junior Elettrica vs MINI Aceman

The Alfa Romeo Junior Elettrica costs £5,590 more than the MINI Aceman. For that premium it adds 64 miles more WLTP range, 25 kW faster peak rapid charging and 100 litres more boot space. On EVcarsguide's combined category scores, the MINI Aceman comes out ahead overall.

The MINI Aceman is £5,590 cheaper to buy. The MINI Aceman is cheaper to charge, roughly £136 a year versus £168 for the Alfa Romeo Junior Elettrica, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the MINI Aceman comes out roughly £5,750 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 Alfa Romeo Junior Elettrica and 159 miles for the MINI Aceman - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The Alfa Romeo Junior Elettrica goes roughly 17 miles further between charging stops. Both rapid-charge to 80% in a similar time, around 27-29 minutes.

The two are within 27 mm on width, so neither is meaningfully easier to thread into a tight space. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 646 mm of total clearance for the MINI Aceman and about 619 mm of total clearance for the Alfa Romeo Junior Elettrica. The Alfa Romeo Junior Elettrica 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 84% battery health for the Alfa Romeo Junior Elettrica and 84% for the MINI Aceman. 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.