- Mazda has opened pre-sales for the EZ-6 electrical sedan in China, which prices from $22,800.
- The EZ-6 is obtainable as each a pure EV and a variety extender and every has two obtainable battery pack sizes.
- The EZ-6 can also be coming to Europe, the place it would possible be significantly costlier than in China.
Mazda has opened the order books in China for its new EZ-6 electrical sedan, and it’s a really reasonably priced proposition. It will not be a worth proposition when it goes on sale in Europe, with the extra import tariffs and duties imposed on Chinese language-made automobiles.
CarNewsChina experiences that the EZ-6’s beginning value in China is equal to $22,800, going as much as $28,550 for the highest model. The supply notes that there’s some uncertainty relating to the pricing, and it hasn’t been formally confirmed but. On condition that the EZ-6 is an intensive rework of Changan’s Deepal SL03 electrical sedan, which prices from $21,800, the pricing for the Mazda is probably going appropriate.
It rides on a 114-inch (2,895 millimeters) wheelbase and measures 193.7 inches (4,921 mm) in size. This makes it barely longer than the Tesla Mannequin 3 and the BMW i4, which might be amongst its major rivals when it reaches Europe. It’s barely smaller than its different European rival, the Volkswagen ID.7, which, like the opposite two, has a a lot greater battery and extra vary than the Mazda.
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The EZ-6 EV has a single 258 horsepower motor driving the rear wheels, sufficient for a 0 to 62 mph (100 km/h) time of 6.2 seconds and a fairly fast sprint to its restricted high pace of 105 mph (170 km/h). Two battery pack sizes can be found: 56.1 kilowatt-hours and 68.8 kWh. The latter offers a CLTC vary of 373 miles (600 km), so the WLTP numberino Europe might be a lot nearer to the 300-mile mark.
The extended-range model has a barely weaker 218 hp rear motor and both an 18.9 kWh battery good for 81 miles (130 km) or a bigger 28.4 kWh battery with 124 miles (200 km) of CLTC vary. To maintain the battery from working out, the automotive will hearth up its 93-hp 1.5-liter engine, which extends the vary to over 800 miles (1,300 km) on a full tank of gasoline.
Taking a look at its proportions, the form of its greenhouse, and the higher a part of its doorways, it is simple to identify the similarities with the Deepal SL03. Nonetheless, Mazda has completed an awesome job giving the EZ-6 its personal id—you’ll be in little question that you simply’re a Mazda whenever you see this automobile. It appears to be like like an evolution of the Mazda 6, the fashionable BMW 3 Sequence rival that was discontinued within the U.S. in 2021 and 2024 may very well be its final yr as a world mannequin.
The inside is straightforward and minimalistic and it appears to be like nothing just like the SL03. The one main shared element is the 14.6-inch infotainment touchscreen, which is a really uncommon sight in a Mazda because the producer has saved screens small and bodily buttons for his or her management. The EZ-6 doesn’t seem to have any bodily buttons, so all the pieces might be completed by way of the touchscreen, even manually elevating and decreasing the rear spoiler (which fits up by itself at 55 mph).
Although Mazda sees the EZ-6 as “actually world,” there are not any plans to carry it to the U.S., most likely as a result of it was inbuilt China by Mazda’s three way partnership accomplice Changan, so it is topic to excessive tariffs. Even its availability in Europe doesn’t look like a certain factor proper now on condition that the continent’s automotive shopping for tastes are transferring extra in the direction of crossovers and away from sedans and its value might rise an excessive amount of after taxes and import duties from China—Mazda could not carry it to Europe if it doesn’t suppose it’s going to achieve success.
