Jeep Avenger vs Vauxhall Astra

The Vauxhall Astra is £4 cheaper to buy. Running costs are almost identical - about £168 a year either way, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the two land within £4 of each other - effectively the same to own. 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 171 miles for the Jeep Avenger and 191 miles for the Vauxhall Astra - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The Vauxhall Astra goes roughly 20 miles further between charging stops. Both rapid-charge to 80% in a similar time, around 26-30 minutes.

The Jeep Avenger is the easier car for tight UK car parks: it is 50 mm narrower than the Vauxhall Astra. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 590 mm of total clearance for the Jeep Avenger and about 540 mm of total clearance for the Vauxhall Astra.

Over a 8-year ownership window EVcarsguide's degradation model projects roughly 84% battery health for the Jeep Avenger and 84% for the Vauxhall Astra. 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.