Fiat 500e vs Honda e

The Honda e costs £9,720 more than the Fiat 500e. For that premium it adds 30 kW more power. On EVcarsguide's combined category scores, the Fiat 500e comes out ahead overall.

The Fiat 500e is £9,720 cheaper to buy. The Fiat 500e is cheaper to charge, roughly £136 a year versus £176 for the Honda e, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the Fiat 500e comes out roughly £9,920 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 98 miles for the Fiat 500e and 115 miles for the Honda e - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The Honda e goes roughly 17 miles further between charging stops. Both rapid-charge to 80% in a similar time, around 30-31 minutes.

The Fiat 500e is the easier car for tight UK car parks: it is 69 mm narrower than the Honda e. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 717 mm of total clearance for the Fiat 500e and about 648 mm of total clearance for the Honda e. The Honda e also turns in a 1.1 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 Fiat 500e and 84% for the Honda e. 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.