Cupra Tavascan vs Nissan ARIYA

The Cupra Tavascan costs £10,340 more than the Nissan ARIYA. For that premium it adds 103 miles more WLTP range, 74 litres more boot space and 50 kW more power. On EVcarsguide's combined category scores, the Cupra Tavascan comes out ahead overall.

The Nissan ARIYA is £10,340 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 Nissan ARIYA comes out roughly £10,260 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 294 miles for the Cupra Tavascan and 209 miles for the Nissan ARIYA - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The Cupra Tavascan goes roughly 85 miles further between charging stops. Both rapid-charge to 80% in a similar time, around 28-30 minutes.

The two are within 11 mm on width, so neither is meaningfully easier to thread into a tight space. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 550 mm of total clearance for the Nissan ARIYA and about 539 mm of total clearance for the Cupra Tavascan. The Cupra Tavascan also turns in a 0.6 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 Cupra Tavascan and 84% for the Nissan ARIYA. 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.