If you look at this Škoda Citigo, you shake your head and think that such an electric car, usually referred to as a small car, could not trigger a mini revolution? Well, then let's try to give this car a little more respect.

And that works best when we tell you from the announced purchase price, namely 'under 20,000 euros', some press representatives want to have heard a 'clearly' before, which leads them to suspect even 19,000 euros. No matter how that may be, one subtracts the still valid premium for the purchase of electric cars, comes one on 15.000 to 16.000 euro.

You'd even be right if you suspected the Citigo to have the substructure of the up! and its electric version the e-up! If, however, you continue to assume its 18.6 kWh battery capacity, then you are doing this Škoda a bitter injustice, because it is almost exactly twice as much.

Well, does it ring now in your brain? After all, the e-up! cost about 27,000 euros once, and 23,000 at its very end. With half the capacity. May be a sensation in the VW group at the very moment when the IDs are actually being advertised and are due to appear soon. And if that's not enough to cheer you on, then we'll keep comparing. The Smart Forfour ed has less than half of it of the capacity and costs currently far more than 22,000 euros.

Let's take the BMW Group with the latest product, the electric Mini. Certainly a Škoda Citigo is not to be compared to a Mini, especially if this is called Cooper SEC, but a price difference of about 13,000 Euros with 4 kWh more capacity makes it worth, doesn't it? Even the new e.GO Life 60 comes at the same price only 64 percent of the capacity and is much smaller.

It's very difficult with Citroën. Here the former Mitsubishi I-MIEV lives on, at least in Europe, in the form of the Citroën C-Zero and its sister model Peugeot iOn. You have to comb through the entire price list. The last but one entry is the pitiful 14.5 kWh. Can you really estimate potential customers in such a way that they don't look for the battery capacity? Oh the purchase price, that is naturally 1,800 euro higher, too.

In this chapter we have only pictures of a disassembled up-battery. But if you compare it to the Citigo iV below, you won't see much of a difference. From this we can conclude that they managed to fit a battery with twice the capacity in the 2013 case.

Despite all the enthusiasm, we still have three small remarks to make here. At high outside temperatures and fast driving or charging the cooling of the battery could become a problem, because there is no liquid cooling. There is also no possibility to use three-phase AC. And the fast DC charger will probably cost extra, like the e-up!