Maruti eVitara vs Hyundai Creta Electric — Not Just A Spec Comparison

Maruti e Vitara vs Hyundai Creta Electric — Dimension Comparison

The eVitara is shorter in length than the Creta Electric but just about as wide and tall as the Creta EV. The e Vitara has a substantially longer wheelbase measuring 2700mm while the Creta Electric has a 2610mm long wheelbase.

The Creta EV has a 200mm ground clearance while the eVitara benefits from lower aerodynamic drag because of its usable but lower, 180mm clearance. We don’t yet know about the boot space of the eVitara but the Creta electric gets a 433 litre trunk in the rear and a 22 litre front storage as well.

In terms of tyre sizes, the Creta EV gets 215-section tyres with 17-inch alloy wheels across all variants. Meanwhile, the eVitara’s top variant gets one size wider tyres with larger 18-inch alloy wheels. We expect the Vitara EV’s lower variants to get 17-inch rims, possibly with narrower tyres.

Maruti e Vitara vs Hyundai Creta EV — Range Comparison

In terms of driving range, the eVitara’s large battery pack variants will offer more than 500km of range resulting in a mileage of at least 8.20kmpu. Since the 49kWh battery pack have to haul less weight and the LFP batteries are quite heavy, we expect it to deliver about 0.37kmpu better mileage. This means, we can expect it to cover 420km in a single charge according to the official ARAI test cycles.

The Creta Electric, meanwhile, has a more energy dense NMC battery chemistry, which also weighs less. Hence, we get a higher mileage figure of 9.20kmpu and a range of 473km from the Creta EV’s large battery pack. With the smaller battery pack, you get a claimed range of 390km and a mileage figure of 9.29kmpu.

*Estimated

Maruti e Vitara vs Hyundai Creta Electric — Performance & Spec Comparison

When considering the large battery pack variants of the two cars in isolation or the small battery pack versions, they deliver comparable power output. However, there’s a big difference in the torque output and this is what you feel when you press the accelerator pedal. And the torque output of the Vitara EV is the same for both battery options just like the Creta electric. Here, the Creta Electric has a huge upper hand with 62Nm higher torque output.

Maruti Vitara EV vs Hyundai Creta Electric — Feature Comparison

The following table lists out the unique standard features and top model features of the e Vitara and the Creta EV:

Maruti Suzuki E Vitara vs Hyundai Creta Electric — Battery & Platform Comparison

Platform

The Maruti Suzuki e Vitara uses a skateboard platform, which is specifically designed to offer efficiencies exclusively available with an EV. For instance, the e Vitara has a considerably longer wheelbase, which liberates cabin space and improves rear seat leg room. Moreover, with the battery being part of a structural component of the platform, a skateboard EV is better able to manage the weight distribution and potentially offer better crash worthiness.

A skateboard EV like the e Vitara may also have easier repairability compared to a Creta EV, which has EV components accommodated in a car with a platform designed to run on petrol or diesel.

Some of the benefits also go towards material cost efficiencies. For instance, an EV doesn’t have the vibrations to cancel out. So, some of its parts don’t require the kind of construction that goes into a petrol or diesel car. But it’s more expensive to reengineer it and add a new stamping or moulding tool than to just use the heavier component. The carmaker with a skateboard platform can then choose to either pass on the cost savings to the consumers or keep the profits.

Battery Chemistry

The Creta EV uses NMC lithium batteries, which are more energy dense. Per kWh of energy storage capacity, the NMC batteries are lighter than the LFP batteries of the e Vitara. It shows in the mileage figures as well. The Creta EV 51.4kWh variant is able to deliver a mileage of 9.20kmpu while the eVitara 49kWh is only likely to offer around 8.5kmpu in ARAI tests.

NMC battery tech is also a fair bit older and more mature than the LFP batteries, and therefore a more reliable performer. NMC batteries are also more expensive than the LFP ones.

The e Vitara’s LFP battery has a longer cycle count and degrades at about half the rate compared to an NMC battery. However, the pain point of an LFP battery is cold weather. So, if you live in a colder climate where it snows every winter, the Creta electric will be able to deliver a more consistent driving range than the eVitara. NMC chemistry is more resilient to colder temperatures. This is probably the reason why Hyundai didn’t bother with battery heating in the 42kWh variants.

Because of the difficulty in working consistently in sub-zero temperatures, we expect Maruti Suzuki to offer battery heating as a standard feature with all variants of the EVitara. This point is not confirmed by Maruti Suzuki officials at the time of publishing this article but we are pretty confident of the eVitara getting battery heating even with the smaller battery pack.

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Maruti e Vitara vs Hyundai Creta Electric — Comparison Verdict

Now let’s wrap up the whole comparison.

In the dimensions, the eVitara has longer wheelbase and larger wheels but the Creta Electric has better ground clearance and stronger road presence. The differences here even themselves out.

The range of the e Vitara is much better than that of the Creta EV because of a much larger battery pack. While the Vitara EV’s LFP battery chemistry has a longer cycle count to degradation, it will offer inconsistent range in colder weather with below freezing temperatures. The Creta Electric reserves battery heating for the larger battery pack although NMC handles cold better. All things considered, the Vitara electric wins this round by a small margin, since ours is a tropical climate and most car buyers don’t have to deal with freezing cold.

In terms of performance, the Creta electric is far superior to the eVitara because of much better torque output.

On the feature front, both cars bring their unique strengths to the table and neither gets a clear advantage over the other.

Since we don’t yet know the pricing of the eVitara, based on the currently available information, the Creta seems to offer a well-balanced set of features. It manages to appear slightly better than the Vitara electric mainly because of the superior torque output and ability to deal with the cold weather in a more consistent manner. But this part of the verdict is for the Creta Electric's 51.4kWh variants, which also get battery heating.

If you're on a tighter budget or need one of the variants with a smaller battery pack, then the Vitara EV comes across as a superior choice because of its better range and far longer battery life. Moreover, if you don't live in places with sub-zero winters and the e Vitara ends up in similar price range as we are expecting and the 49kWh battery pack gets heating to deal with moderately cold winters, then in this case too, the Vitara EV is a far superior choice.

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