Ford E-Tourneo Custom vs Vauxhall Combo Life

The Ford E-Tourneo Custom costs £13,710 more than the Vauxhall Combo Life. For that premium it adds 50 kW faster peak rapid charging, 985 litres more boot space and 60 kW more power. On EVcarsguide's combined category scores, the Vauxhall Combo Life comes out ahead overall.

The Vauxhall Combo Life is £13,710 cheaper to buy. Running costs are almost identical - about £216 a year either way, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the Vauxhall Combo Life comes out roughly £13,830 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 168 miles for the Ford E-Tourneo Custom and 131 miles for the Vauxhall Combo Life - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The Ford E-Tourneo Custom goes roughly 37 miles further between charging stops. A rapid charge to 80% takes around 41 minutes in the Ford E-Tourneo Custom and 30 in the Vauxhall Combo Life, so the Vauxhall Combo Life loses less time at each stop. So the Ford E-Tourneo Custom stops less often while the Vauxhall Combo Life stops for less time - pick on which you would rather do.

The Vauxhall Combo Life is the easier car for tight UK car parks: it is 111 mm narrower than the Ford E-Tourneo Custom. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 479 mm of total clearance for the Vauxhall Combo Life and about 368 mm of total clearance for the Ford E-Tourneo Custom.

Over a 8-year ownership window EVcarsguide's degradation model projects roughly 84% battery health for the Ford E-Tourneo Custom and 84% for the Vauxhall Combo Life. 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.