The Corsa has been a runaway success for Vauxhall. If you include the figures for the combustion-engined variants, it’s the most popular car in Vauxhall’s European line-up, accounting for 40% of the company’s total sales. British drivers love it, too. It hasn’t dropped off the podium in the UK sales charts since 2020 – and it was our best-selling car for 2021.
They’re good cars, too, which is bad news for Vauxhall because it means this revised Corsa Electric needs to be utterly brilliant to justify its higher price. If it isn’t, the UK’s sales charts might look very different by the end of next year.Broadly yes. We’ll start with the car’s new powertrain. The bigger 51kWh battery pack has made the Corsa Electric a little more long-legged, although it still won’t meet Vauxhall’s official range claims.
Because both versions of the Corsa have similarly sized battery packs, their charge times are comparable. Using a 7.4kW AC wallbox, both cars will fully recharge in around 7.5 hours, while a 0–80% charge from a 100kW Vauxhall achieved the extra battery capacity by stacking fewer, larger cells under the Corsa’s body. The result is that the 51kWh model is fractionally lighter than the 50kWh model – and that means both cars share the same neutral handling characteristics.
You need to be quite brave to drive it quickly, though. The added weight of the battery pressing down on the wheels gives the Corsa Electric a rather uncanny feeling of grip. It feels sticker than it is, which makes it harder to judge where the limits are. The Corsa Electric isn’t the most practical car for its class, either. Space in the rear is tight with a tall driver ahead and its boot is considerably smaller than the petrol Corsa’s. The battery pack hacks 42 litres out of the supermini’s luggage compartment, taking space down to 267 litres – and that could be a dealbreaker for those with young families or cumbersome hobbies. What’s more, the BYD Dolphin has more space in the back for passengers and an extra 78 litres of boot space.
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