Alpine A390 vs Cupra Tavascan

The Alpine A390 costs £14,050 more than the Cupra Tavascan. For that premium it adds 55 kW faster peak rapid charging, 84 kW more power and a 2.9s quicker 0-62mph time. On EVcarsguide's combined category scores, the Cupra Tavascan comes out ahead overall.

The Cupra Tavascan is £14,050 cheaper to buy. Running costs are almost identical - about £152 a year either way, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the Cupra Tavascan comes out roughly £14,170 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 288 miles for the Alpine A390 and 294 miles for the Cupra Tavascan - effectively matched, and both well below their WLTP figures because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. Both rapid-charge to 80% in a similar time, around 25-28 minutes.

The two are within 24 mm on width, so neither is meaningfully easier to thread into a tight space. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 539 mm of total clearance for the Cupra Tavascan and about 515 mm of total clearance for the Alpine A390.

Over a 8-year ownership window EVcarsguide's degradation model projects roughly 84% battery health for the Alpine A390 and 84% for the Cupra Tavascan. 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.