Alpine A390 vs Jaguar I-Pace (2018-2020)

The Jaguar I-Pace costs £2,105 more than the Alpine A390. For that premium it adds 124 litres more boot space. The Alpine A390 is not just cheaper - it also offers 53 miles more WLTP range, 90 kW faster peak rapid charging and a 0.9s quicker 0-62mph time. On EVcarsguide's combined category scores, the Alpine A390 comes out ahead overall.

The Alpine A390 is £2,105 cheaper to buy. The Alpine A390 is cheaper to charge, roughly £176 a year versus £208 for the Jaguar I-Pace, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the Alpine A390 comes out roughly £2,265 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 244 miles for the Jaguar I-Pace - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The Alpine A390 goes roughly 44 miles further between charging stops.

The two are within 10 mm on width, so neither is meaningfully easier to thread into a tight space. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 515 mm of total clearance for the Alpine A390 and about 505 mm of total clearance for the Jaguar I-Pace. The Alpine A390 also turns in a 1.0 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 Alpine A390 and 84% for the Jaguar I-Pace. 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.