MG4 EV Urban vs MG5 EV

The MG MG5 EV costs £7,500 more than the MG MG4 EV Urban. For that premium it adds a 1.3s quicker 0-62mph time. The MG MG4 EV Urban is not just cheaper - it also offers 98 litres more boot space. On EVcarsguide's combined category scores, the MG MG4 EV Urban comes out ahead overall.

The MG MG4 EV Urban is £7,500 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 MG MG4 EV Urban comes out roughly £7,540 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 140 miles for the MG MG4 EV Urban and 166 miles for the MG MG5 EV - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The MG MG5 EV goes roughly 26 miles further between charging stops. A rapid charge to 80% takes around 28 minutes in the MG MG4 EV Urban and 40 in the MG MG5 EV, so the MG MG4 EV Urban loses less time at each stop. So the MG MG5 EV stops less often while the MG MG4 EV Urban stops for less time - pick on which you would rather do.

The two are within 24 mm on width, so neither is meaningfully easier to thread into a tight space. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 582 mm of total clearance for the MG MG5 EV and about 558 mm of total clearance for the MG MG4 EV Urban.

Over a 8-year ownership window EVcarsguide's degradation model projects roughly 90% battery health for the MG MG4 EV Urban and 90% for the MG MG5 EV. That is close enough that capacity loss should not decide between them. Both use LFP-type cells, which are happy charged to 100% every day. The MG MG4 EV Urban has the longer battery warranty at 8 years, versus 7 for the MG MG5 EV.