Nissan LEAF vs Renault Megane (2022-2024)

The Renault Megane is £4 cheaper to buy. The Nissan LEAF is cheaper to charge, roughly £136 a year versus £176 for the Renault Megane, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the two land within £196 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 313 miles for the Nissan LEAF and 193 miles for the Renault Megane - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The Nissan LEAF goes roughly 119 miles further between charging stops. Both rapid-charge to 80% in a similar time, around 30-32 minutes.

The Renault Megane is the easier car for tight UK car parks: it is 42 mm narrower than the Nissan LEAF. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 632 mm of total clearance for the Renault Megane and about 590 mm of total clearance for the Nissan LEAF. The Renault Megane also turns in a 0.4 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 Nissan LEAF and 84% for the Renault Megane. 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.