MINI Electric vs Renault ZOE: running costs and warranty

The ZOE is cheaper to buy than the MINI and offers more standard equipment; both cost peanuts to run

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As you'd expect from small electric cars, both the MINI and the Renault cost very little to run. In our test we calculated costs based on charging from a domestic power supply at an average of 14.4p per kWh; by our reckoning, £7.92 will fully top up the ZOE’s battery, while £4.69 will do the same for the MINI.

Extrapolating those figures, the ZOE – based on our test efficiency figure of 3.7 miles per kWh – will cost 4p per mile to run, while the MINI with its 3.6 miles per kWh will cost 4.5p per mile. There’s not much to separate these two, then: over 20,000 miles, that’s an electricity bill of £788 for the Renault, or £800 for the MINI.

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The MINI is covered by a three-year/unlimited-mileage warranty, while the Renault gets a longer five-year warranty with a 100,000-mile limit. As with most electric cars, both the MINI and Renault have separate warranties for their batteries – each gets identical eight-year/100,000-mile coverage in this case.

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