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The Citroën ë-C4 X is a version of the ë-C4 with a boot rather than a hatchback; like the ë-C4, it’s recently been updated, including with new frontal styling, and one of its main selling points is its price, being available from under £30,000.
The Citroën ë-C4 X has been updated, with changes including revised styling. Citroën’s aim is to provide a spacious electric family car for a starting price of under £30,000. So should this be on your EV shortlist?
The styling at the front of the Citroën ë-C4 X has been updated to result in it looking sharper – a big improvement on the previous model. But, although the ë-C4 hatch has been re-styled at the front and at the back, bizarrely the ë-C4 X has only had an update at the front; the rear has been left unchanged.
The ë-C4 is a practical hatchback, whereas the ë-C4 X has a boot, however the boot of the ë-C4 X is bigger than that of the hatchback model: 510 litres compared to 380 litres, and with the seats folded, the ë-C4 X offers 1,360 litres of space compared to 1,250 litres in the hatch. The explanation for this lies in the length of the respective cars: the ë-C4 is 4,360 mm long, whereas the ë-C4 X gains 240mm, resulting in a length of 4,600mm.
The interior is dark with lots of plastic, and it looks a bit basic, but many people may be more focused on the sub-£30,000 starting price than the quality of the interior.
The Citroën ë-C4 X in Max trim as tested has a 54kWh lithium-ion battery, but there’s also a Plus trim level which retains the slightly smaller 50kWh battery. A 156 bhp electric motor (or 136 bhp in Plus trim level) delivers front-wheel drive. The ë-C4’s platform is shared widely within the Stellantis Group with other models including the Peugeot e-208, Peugeot 2008, DS 3 and Vauxhall Corsa.
Another strange thing about the Citroën ë-C4 X is that even though it’s front-wheel drive, it has what appears to be a transmission tunnel which impacts on rear legroom (presumably this is to accommodate the exhaust on petrol models).
The driving experience of the updated Citroën ë-C4 X isn’t particularly different from the ë-C4 or the previous model; the headline remains that the ë-C4 X is comfortable and easy to drive. This is primarily due to the suspension, which delivers good ride quality on most roads unless there are huge potholes, but the seats also contribute to the comfortable experience – even if the driving position isn’t perfect.
The ë-C4 X’s relatively light weight, 1,584 kg, also helps with the way the car drives. Because the ë-C4 X is engineered for comfort, this means that if you’re looking for precise, race car-like handling and steering, you won’t find it here; the body control is soft and bouncy.
With a leisurely 0-62 mph time of 9.3 seconds, it’s a similar story in the performance department, and this is no doubt a factor in why there isn’t the common EV problem of wheelspin from the front-wheel drive chassis under acceleration.
The ë-C4 is quiet and refined like virtually all electric cars (although there can be some wind noise at motorway speeds), but the key point is that petrol or diesel cars at the same price point as the Citroën won’t have this level of refinement.
The gear selector is the familiar Stellantis unit, with choices of P, R, N, D and B – even though some other models in the Group have now ditched the B setting on the gear selector (for increased brake regeneration) in favour of steering wheel-mounted paddles. There are also drive mode choices of Sport, Normal and Eco.
The ë-C4 X has a driver’s instrument display, and a head-up display projected onto a plastic screen, as well as a wide central touchscreen in the Max trim of our test car. The head-up display has user-friendly physical buttons on the right of the dashboard to adjust the position of the information projected onto it.
The touchscreen doesn’t have any permanent shortcut buttons on the screen; instead there are just two separate, dark, physical buttons for ‘home’ and ‘vehicle’ under the touchscreen. At night, the buttons that you need to press – under the symbols – aren’t even illuminated. When you’ve pressed the home button, some boxes appear on the screen such as for the radio, but you have to swipe to find other features such as satnav.
There are separate physical climate controls for cabin temperature and fan speed, and a physical volume control, and a button to press to bring up the full climate screen.
At the end of our week with the car, just as it was being collected, we finally found the button for the heated steering wheel hidden at the bottom of the right-hand side of the dashboard.
To start or to switch off the car, you have to press the ë-C4 X’s start/stop button hard and for a few seconds, whilst also pressing your foot hard on the brake pedal, which feels like a lot more hard work than it should be.
The Citroën ë-C4 X in Max trim has an official combined WLTP electric driving range of 263 miles. The car always displayed a range prediction of 258 miles when fully charged, but the actual real-world range after a week on test averaged 220 miles. The range dropped quickly with lots of driving at motorway speeds.
The Citroen ë-C4 X can rapid charge at up to 100 kW, when a 0-80% charge will take just 30 minutes. Using a 7.4kW home charger, a full charge should take seven hours 30 minutes. You can also specify the ë-C4 X with the option to charge at 11 kW (as per our test car), which will deliver slightly faster charging when using a charge point with a three-phase electricity supply, such as at a workplace in the UK.
Citroen e-C4 X prices start at £28,715 for Plus trim level. Our test car in Max trim level was priced at £30,150, and it also had options of Techno Pack (£500), Heat Pump (£450) and 11 kW three-phase onboard charger (£300), taking the total price to £31,400. The colour of our test car was Manhattan Green.
The Citroën ë-C4 X Plus has a 50kWh ‘standard range’ battery giving a range of 222 miles, together with a 136hp electric motor.
The Citroën ë-C4 X offers a spacious and comfortable electric family saloon for a starting price of under £30,000. Although you lose the practical hatchback of the ë-C4 model, strangely, the boot offers more luggage space, due to the longer length of the car. What is even more bizarre however is that Citroën has given the ë-C4 sharper new styling at the front and at the rear, but it has only done this at the front for the ë-C4 X model, and appears to have given up at the rear and left it as per the previous generation model. The ë-C4 X interior is quite basic, and the infotainment system desperately needs improved shortcut buttons. If you want a longer driving range then you’ll need to go for Max trim rather than Plus trim with the smaller battery. The Citroën ë-C4 X is awarded a Green Car Guide rating of 7 out of 10.
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