Skoda CITIGOe iV vs VW e-Up!

The VW e-Up! costs £2,740 more than the Skoda CITIGOe iV. On the headline specs that premium buys little measurable advantage - the two are closely matched on range, charging and space. On EVcarsguide's combined category scores, the Skoda CITIGOe iV comes out ahead overall.

The Skoda CITIGOe iV is £2,740 cheaper to buy. Running costs are almost identical - about £152 a year either way, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the Skoda CITIGOe iV comes out roughly £2,780 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 134 miles for the Skoda CITIGOe iV and 116 miles for the VW e-Up! - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The Skoda CITIGOe iV goes roughly 18 miles further between charging stops. A rapid charge to 80% takes around 60 minutes in the Skoda CITIGOe iV and 49 in the VW e-Up!, so the VW e-Up! loses less time at each stop. So the Skoda CITIGOe iV stops less often while the VW e-Up! stops for less time - pick on which you would rather do.

The two are within 0 mm on width, so neither is meaningfully easier to thread into a tight space. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 755 mm of total clearance for the Skoda CITIGOe iV and about 755 mm of total clearance for the VW e-Up!.

Over a 8-year ownership window EVcarsguide's degradation model projects roughly 84% battery health for the Skoda CITIGOe iV and 84% for the VW e-Up!. 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.