Alpine A290 vs Peugeot e-208

The Alpine A290 costs £8,930 more than the Peugeot e-208. For that premium it adds 30 kW more power. On EVcarsguide's combined category scores, the Peugeot e-208 comes out ahead overall.

The Peugeot e-208 is £8,930 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 Peugeot e-208 comes out roughly £9,010 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 155 miles for the Alpine A290 and 155 miles for the Peugeot e-208 - effectively matched, and both well below their WLTP figures because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV.

The Peugeot e-208 is the easier car for tight UK car parks: it is 58 mm narrower than the Alpine A290. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 635 mm of total clearance for the Peugeot e-208 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 Alpine A290 and 84% for the Peugeot e-208. 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.