Cupra Raval vs Suzuki e VITARA

The Suzuki e VITARA is £746 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 Suzuki e VITARA comes out roughly £706 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 139 miles for the Cupra Raval and 162 miles for the Suzuki e VITARA - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The Suzuki e VITARA goes roughly 23 miles further between charging stops. A rapid charge to 80% takes around 23 minutes in the Cupra Raval and 45 in the Suzuki e VITARA, so the Cupra Raval loses less time at each stop. So the Suzuki e VITARA stops less often while the Cupra Raval stops for less time - pick on which you would rather do.

The two are within 16 mm on width, so neither is meaningfully easier to thread into a tight space. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 616 mm of total clearance for the Cupra Raval and about 600 mm of total clearance for the Suzuki e VITARA. The Suzuki e VITARA also turns in a 0.5 m tighter circle, which helps with U-turns and multi-storey ramps.

Over a 8-year ownership window EVcarsguide's degradation model projects roughly 90% battery health for the Cupra Raval and 90% for the Suzuki e VITARA. That is close enough that capacity loss should not decide between them. Both use LFP-type cells, which are happy charged to 100% every day.