Ranked #304 car in the UK · Hatchback (EV) · 2,000 units sold last year
The new Nissan Micra returns as a fully electric supermini, sharing its platform and powertrain with the Renault 5 - so it is a thoroughly modern, well-engineered small EV under distinctive Nissan styling. With 40kWh or 52kWh batteries, pricing from 22,995 pounds and standard kit like a heat pump for better cold-weather efficiency, it is among the most affordable new electric cars. A sensible, keenly-priced city-and-suburb EV reaching the road in 2026.
New model — there isn't yet an established used market to price this car from, so the valuation is based on its launch list price and projected depreciation. It will sharpen automatically as used examples reach the market.
Nissan
Micra (Electric)
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The short version
The Nissan Micra (Electric) is new enough that its used values are still projected from launch price rather than observed from sales and costs about average to run. Its MOT-based reliability is good, 73 out of 100, ahead of 51% of the cars we track.
Eligible for £3,750 off — UK Electric Car GrantBand 1
Applied at point of sale by the dealer — no application needed. Details on gov.uk.
Estimates are tuned to the version you choose.
Fuel
Electric
Power
150 ps
Drivetrain
FWD
Efficiency
4.2 mi/kWh
The pick of the range. 52 kWh NMC, 150 PS, up to 260 mi WLTP, 100kW DC. Adaptive cruise, reversing camera, Google built-in. Heat pump standard.
Tidy and well looked-after for its age — the typical car.
Remembered as you browse other cars.
Optional — fills in the exact year and ULEZ status for your specific car. The registration isn’t stored.
Estimated market value
How we got this number — click for the breakdown, or to challenge it.£22,550
Range £16,950 – £28,750
low confidence
How a 2026-registration Nissan Micra (Electric) loses value over time.
Based on the 2026 car with 0 miles you entered above — worth about £22,550 today — here is the cost of owning it for the next 5 years, at roughly 7,500 miles a year.
5-year total
£15,762
Per year
£3,152
All-in per mile
£0.42
Fuel per mile
6.8p
If a company carAround £27/mo Benefit-in-Kind tax at the 40% rate (£14/mo at 20%) — 3% band (EV)
If you're a company-car driver
At 3% BIK, this would cost a 40% taxpayer about £27/month in company-car tax (£14/month at 20%) — one of the strongest cases for choosing an EV via salary sacrifice. Full BIK table below for context.
Best age to buy — around 2 years
A 2-year-old example loses roughly £2,550 a year — under half the £6,800 a one-year-old sheds. The steepest drop is behind it.
Uses current UK pump and home-charging prices (DESNZ weekly), typical-driver insurance and manufacturer service intervals. "Fuel per mile" is just the energy input — so an EV at ~9p and a diesel at ~22p make running-cost comparison direct. A guide; your own costs will vary.
Where this car ranks against the 340 vehicles in our index — higher is better.
Percentile rank across our full index. A measure is shown only where the data spreads meaningfully across the index.
How the available versions compare on price, running cost, and the headaches each tends to develop.
Top trim on the 260-mile 52 kWh battery: Harman Kardon, heated seats, one-pedal drive. The long-trip pick.
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The value pick - 260 mi WLTP, adaptive cruise, reversing camera. Recommended trim for most buyers.
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Entry 40 kWh - strictly urban/short-commute. 198 mi WLTP but real-world well short on the motorway.
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Fuel/energy costs based on this week’s UK averages (w/c 22/06/2026) · Petrol 153.3p/L, Diesel 172.5p/L, Electricity 27.0p/kWh · DESNZ
Group 22 of 50 (mid — around the UK average) · Comprehensive · 3 years NCB
Indicative annual comprehensive premiums for this car, by driver age band and risk profile. Pick the combination closest to your circumstances.
Estimated annual premium · typical, age 33-39
£1,072/ year
Roughly £89 per month
Typical
Average UK driver — 3 years NCB, average postcode, no recent claims.| Age band | Lower risk | Typical | Higher risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age 17-25 | £2,444 | £3,055 | £3,972 |
| Age 26-32 | £1,276 | £1,501 | £1,831 |
| Age 33-39Selected | £943 | £1,072 | £1,265 |
| Age 40-49 | £801 | £890 | £1,032 |
| Age 50+ | £714 | £793 | £936 |
How we estimate this
Indicative annual comprehensive premium estimates. The 'Typical' figure represents an average UK driver in each age band; Lower and Higher risk show the realistic spread driven by factors UK insurers legitimately price on (postcode, occupation, claims history, NCB, voluntary excess, modifications). Based on 10,000 miles/yr, £250 voluntary excess, and the no-claims bonus selected above. Always get individual quotes before buying.
Adjust the annual mileage to match how you'll actually use the car. Insurance is what you selected above (age 33-39, typical risk, 3 yrs NCB).
Routine service
£260
Annual main-dealer service
Major service
£210
Every 2 years, annualised
Road tax
£195
Standard rate, post year-one
Electricity
£482
4 mi/kWh, 27p blended
Insurance
£1,072
Age 33-39, group 22
Clean-air zones
✓ ULEZ compliantBased on London ULEZ standards — Birmingham, Bath, Bristol, Sheffield, Glasgow and other UK clean-air zones generally follow the same rules.
Excludes depreciation and unscheduled repairs (see next section).
What out-of-warranty repairs typically run, by mileage band. Your selected mileage is highlighted.
0-30k miles
£80
per year · low risk
30-60k miles
£240
per year · low risk
60-100k miles
£520
per year · medium risk
100k+ miles
£900
per year · high risk
195/65 R15 · 205/55 R16 · 215/45 R17
What a full set of four will cost you (including fit and balance), and which brand each tier of buyer should pick. A typical set lasts about 24,000 miles.
Budget
£300
set of 4, fitted · £60 per tyre
Mid-range
£440
set of 4, fitted · £95 per tyre
Premium
£620
set of 4, fitted · £140 per tyre
Factory options ranked by how much of their original cost they recover at resale. Anything above 70% return tends to make money back; below 40% is paying for your own enjoyment.
| Option | New cost | Added used value | Return |
|---|---|---|---|
Tow bar (factory-fit) Niche, but the buyers who want one will pay for it. | £650 | £450 | 69% |
Parking sensors & reversing camera Near-expected now — its absence costs more than its presence returns. | £500 | £300 | 60% |
Heat pump Genuinely useful in winter; buyers increasingly look for it. | £1,000 | £450 | 45% |
Heated seats / cold-weather pack | £450 | £200 | 44% |
Faster on-board AC charger | £800 | £300 | 38% |
Metallic or premium paint Almost universal — an unusual colour is the bigger resale risk. | £600 | £200 | 33% |
Panoramic / opening roof | £1,100 | £350 | 32% |
Larger alloy wheels | £700 | £200 | 29% |
Drawn from owner reports and warranty data. Filtered for relevance to 0 miles.
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Failure typically happens around your current mileage.
Upcoming
A known weak point — but you haven't reached its usual mileage yet.
Already due
Past its usual failure mileage. Either already fixed, or about to.
Documented on platform-mate Renault 5 since launch. Symptoms: navigation app crashes, Assistant unresponsive. OTA updates address most. Check current firmware version at PDI.
Some UK CCS chargepoints (specific network/firmware combinations) fail handshake on first attempt. Re-plug usually works. Pattern across AmpR Small platform.
Car fails to wake after extended idle. Renault TSB updates the 12V management firmware. Check VIN against TSB list at PDI.
Front door seal generates wind noise above 60 mph. Cosmetic but irritating.
Manual release in boot if the electronic latch fails. Renault platform pattern.
"Parts low/medium/high" indicates how easy the replacement part is to source — discontinued or specialist parts mean longer workshop time and bigger bills.
Good
Estimated from segment/platform - too new for MOT data
MOT outlook
Insufficient MOT history at this car's reference age — too few tests to compute a reliable percentile.
Safety recalls
Manufacturers occasionally issue safety recalls to fix a fault free of charge. You can check whether the Nissan Micra (Electric), or your exact vehicle, has any outstanding recalls on the official DVSA service.
Check on GOV.UKOpens the Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency recall checker. Choose the make, model and year of manufacture — no registration needed.
A general indicator from UK 2025 theft data and this car’s characteristics — not a prediction for any one vehicle.
Whole-car theft
Around average
Theft risk is around the UK average. Like most modern cars it has keyless entry, so relay theft is the method to guard against.
Parts theft
Lower
As an electric car it has no catalytic converter, so the most common parts-theft vector doesn't apply.
Worth doing
Whether driving a Nissan Micra (Electric) into a UK clean-air zone will cost you anything. Rules use the same Euro standard across most zones — petrol from 2006 and diesel from 2015 onwards are exempt; pure electric is always exempt.
| City | Area | Daily charge | Likely outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | All of Greater London (within the M25) | £12.50 | Likely exempt Battery-electric — exempt everywhere. |
| Birmingham | Inside the A4540 Middleway | £8.00 | Likely exempt Battery-electric — exempt everywhere. |
| Bristol | City centre and part of the Portway | £9.00 | Likely exempt Battery-electric — exempt everywhere. |
| Glasgow | City centre | — | Likely exempt Battery-electric — exempt everywhere. |
| Edinburgh | City centre | — | Likely exempt Battery-electric — exempt everywhere. |
| Aberdeen | City centre | — | Likely exempt Battery-electric — exempt everywhere. |
| Dundee | City centre | — | Likely exempt Battery-electric — exempt everywhere. |
Model-level guidance only. To check a specific registration, use the official gov.uk clean-air zone checker. Zone charges and boundaries are set by local councils and change over time.
Winter range estimates assume ~5°C ambient with cabin heating; figures from manufacturer cold-weather testing where available, otherwise derived as a fraction of WLTP. DC times are manufacturer-claimed 10–80% on the headline charger; real-world sessions on UK rapids can be slower. Charging cost is a full battery at the home/blended electricity rate; public rapid charging costs more.
UK charging network
As of 2026-04-01, the UK has 119,080 publicly available EV chargers, up 12.6% on the prior year (13,281 added in 2025). 23% of those are rapid (50 kW+) or ultra-rapid (150 kW+), so the network can support both home and on-route charging.
3-8 kW
50%
Standard
8-50 kW
27%
Standard plus
50-150 kW
12%
Rapid
150 kW+
11%
Ultra-rapid
Source: Department for Transport / Zapmap · Released 2026-05-21 · DfT statistics
What HMRC's Benefit-in-Kind charge looks like if you ran this Nissan Micra (Electric) as a company car, by tax year and income-tax band. Calculated from a CO₂ of 0 g/km and a WLTP electric range of 240 miles, using £26,995 as the P11D value.
EVs sit at the bottom BIK band — currently 3% — so this is one of the cheapest ways to take a company car.
| Tax year | BIK % | Tax @ 20% | Tax @ 40% | Monthly @ 20% | Monthly @ 40% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 3% | £162 | £324 | £14 | £27 |
| 2026-27 | 4% | £216 | £432 | £18 | £36 |
| 2027-28 | 5% | £270 | £540 | £23 | £45 |
| 2028-29 | 7% | £378 | £756 | £32 | £63 |
| 2029-30 | 9% | £486 | £972 | £41 | £81 |
P11D value is approximated from the latest new price; the exact figure on your tax code will depend on options fitted. The 4% diesel surcharge applies only to non-RDE2 (pre-2021) diesels — we assume RDE2 compliance for current models. Bands and rates from HMRC's Autumn Budget 2024 confirmation through 2029/30.
How well-supported Nissan is across the UK — a practical read on how easy servicing, parts and warranty work will be to find.
Franchised UK dealers
~160
Large network
Mass-market
Network size relative to the UK's largest (Nissan is 3.6% of all franchised outlets)
Servicing, parts and warranty work are easy to find UK-wide, and most independent garages know the brand well — which keeps maintenance competitive.
For context, the UK has roughly 4,500 franchised car-dealer outlets in total, plus about 15,500 independent garages.
Approximate figures, curated from public UK industry sources (NFDA, Car Dealer Magazine). Franchised networks shrink year on year — these indicate network size, not an exact count.
Length
4,300 mm
Width
1,790 mm
Height
1,460 mm
Kerb weight
1,700 kg
Boot
380–1,250 L
Battery
52 kWh
Common questions
Similar cars
Same underpinnings
Dedicated EV platform from the Alliance, used for the Megane E-Tech, Scenic E-Tech, Ariya and Micra Electric. Different badges, often substantially different residuals, but broadly the same mechanicals and repair cost profile.
Common Module Family Electric Vehicle · Renault-Nissan Alliance
Common questions
Answers are generated from this car's Forecourt data — DVSA MOT records, DfT licensing statistics and our valuation model — and update with the weekly data refresh.