RENAULT MEGANE E-TECH TECHNO
£35,995 / £39,445
VOLKSWAGEN ID.3 LIFE PRO PERFORMANE
£36,990 / £39,910
MG 4 SE LONG RANGE
£25,995 / £28,495
The very existence of this test is another sign electric cars are at maturity. Until now, it wasn’t really possible to assemble a three-car electric comparison among what you might call heartland hatchbacks. Not in the old Focus vs Golf vs 308 fashion. There just weren’t enough EV hatches around, so you’d end up with one in the group that was too big or small, or had a mismatch in battery size or power. But today, we’ve got three cars all very close in size and spec and absolutely matched in purpose.
Except for one thing. Price. The MG is £11k less than the other two. Lease them on a typical three-year deal – three months down, 8,000 miles a year – and it’s about £450 a month for the MG and £600 for the others. It’s not hard to imagine someone who had their eyes on an ID.3 a few months ago will now be looking at the MG, just because that difference in finance can begin to offset the amount by which their mortgage has gone skyward. They might
