Peugeot e-408 vs Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer

The Peugeot e-408 costs £4,270 more than the Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer. For that premium it adds 42 kW more power and a 1.9s quicker 0-62mph time. On EVcarsguide's combined category scores, the Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer comes out ahead overall.

The Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer is £4,270 cheaper to buy. The Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer is cheaper to charge, roughly £144 a year versus £176 for the Peugeot e-408, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer comes out roughly £4,430 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 177 miles for the Peugeot e-408 and 229 miles for the Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer goes roughly 52 miles further between charging stops.

The two are within 1 mm on width, so neither is meaningfully easier to thread into a tight space. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 541 mm of total clearance for the Peugeot e-408 and about 540 mm of total clearance for the Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer. The Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer also turns in a 0.5 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 Peugeot e-408 and 84% for the Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer. 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.