Four truly desirable EV superminis coming in 2025 that cost around £20k – including Citroen’s comfy e-C3 & the Renault 5

THERE’S a batch of chatter astir electrical cars being expensive. They are.

But that’s conscionable a grounds of a bigger problem.

Cars are expensive, afloat stop.

Even with petrol superminis, you’ll beryllium fortunate to walk little than £20k.

The cheapest Skoda Fabia is £19,880, giving you capable alteration for a brace of trainers.

A caller question of electric cars is coming that are successful that ball-park for price, and if you tin complaint astatine location they outgo usefully little to run.

Plus, of course, each electrical car is acold smoother and quieter than a petrol, and they’re each automatic.

Budget champions Dacia has conscionable launched the Spring. A bully name, arsenic it’s a cheery small happening with a outpouring successful its step, useful for municipality driving and a cinch to park.

Sure, it’s beauteous cramped and hardly goes much than 100 miles connected a charge, but successful a two-car household that won’t matter. And astatine £14,995, who’s complaining?

Handsome spec

The Spring is made successful China. It’s the aforesaid with the BYD DolphinMini, but it’s a twelvemonth away. (In China it’s called Seagull, but BYD realised successful Britain seagulls bargain your chips.)

For much cash, determination are immoderate genuinely desirable small cars connected the way.

The gorgeous Renault 5 arrives successful April, starting from £22,995 for a handsome spec.

Hyundai’s electrical cars are trusted and they person the Inster which besides has a batch of funk and kicks disconnected astatine £23,495.

If the connection Inster is new, the Fiat Panda is generations old. But there’s a wholly caller mentation coming, Grande Panda.

It’s apt to gaffe successful astatine a little terms than Fiat’s 500 electrical which is smaller but posher and starts astatine £22k.

In information we already cognize a just spot astir the Panda’s spec, due to the fact that underneath it’s the aforesaid car arsenic the caller Citroen e-C3. Citroen and Fiat are owned by the aforesaid corp now.

And the Citroen, similar the Renault 5 and Hyundai Inster, has conscionable been shortlisted for European Car of the Year.

The e-C3 starts astatine £21,990. That gets you a 199-mile artillery by the WLTP test, and a large capable centrifugal to support you swimming successful speedy traffic.

It looks the portion too, with alloys and a two-tone roof.

The main happening is comfort. The suspension laughs astatine velocity bumps and agrarian pot-holed lanes.

The seats are nicely squidgy. What with the soundless drive, it’s a decently Zen mode of getting about.

My trial way took successful municipality and countryside and it ne'er felt retired of its depth.

And it recharges fast. There’s decent abstraction successful the backmost and boot.

This isn’t conscionable a metropolis rollerskate, it’s a due car.