DS 3 Crossback E-Tense vs Skoda Elroq

The DS 3 Crossback E-Tense is £480 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 DS 3 Crossback E-Tense comes out roughly £400 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 166 miles for the DS 3 Crossback E-Tense and 234 miles for the Skoda Elroq - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The Skoda Elroq goes roughly 68 miles further between charging stops.

The DS 3 Crossback E-Tense is the easier car for tight UK car parks: it is 94 mm narrower than the Skoda Elroq. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 610 mm of total clearance for the DS 3 Crossback E-Tense and about 516 mm of total clearance for the Skoda Elroq. The Skoda Elroq also turns in a 1.4 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 DS 3 Crossback E-Tense and 84% for the Skoda Elroq. 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. Both batteries carry a 8-year manufacturer warranty.