DS N°8 vs Jeep Compass

The DS N°8 costs £13,791 more than the Jeep Compass. For that premium it adds 56 miles more WLTP range. On EVcarsguide's combined category scores, the DS N°8 comes out ahead overall.

The Jeep Compass is £13,791 cheaper to buy. The DS N°8 is cheaper to charge, roughly £144 a year versus £208 for the Jeep Compass, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the Jeep Compass comes out roughly £13,471 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 285 miles for the DS N°8 and 193 miles for the Jeep Compass - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The DS N°8 goes roughly 92 miles further between charging stops. A rapid charge to 80% takes around 27 minutes in the DS N°8 and 35 in the Jeep Compass, so the DS N°8 loses less time at each stop. That makes the DS N°8 the stronger long-distance car.

The two are within 5 mm on width, so neither is meaningfully easier to thread into a tight space. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 500 mm of total clearance for the Jeep Compass and about 495 mm of total clearance for the DS N°8.

Over a 8-year ownership window EVcarsguide's degradation model projects roughly 84% battery health for the DS N°8 and 84% for the Jeep Compass. 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.