- Mazda has opened pre-sales for the EZ-6 electrical sedan in China, which prices from $22,800.
- The EZ-6 is on the market as each a pure EV and a spread extender and every has two accessible battery pack sizes.
- The EZ-6 can also be coming to Europe, the place it’ll doubtless be significantly dearer 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 vehicles.
CarNewsChina reviews that the EZ-6’s beginning worth 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 concerning the pricing, and it hasn’t been formally confirmed but. Provided 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 can be amongst its fundamental 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 larger 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 prime velocity of 105 mph (170 km/h). Two battery pack sizes can be found: 56.1 kilowatt-hours and 68.8 kWh. The latter gives a CLTC vary of 373 miles (600 km), so the WLTP numberino Europe can 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 operating out, the automobile 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 easy to identify the similarities with the Deepal SL03. Nevertheless, Mazda has carried out a terrific job giving the EZ-6 its personal id—you’ll be in little question that you simply’re a Mazda whenever you see this car. It appears 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 worldwide mannequin.
The inside is straightforward and minimalistic and it appears nothing just like the SL03. The one main shared part is the 14.6-inch infotainment touchscreen, which is a really uncommon sight in a Mazda for the reason that 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 things can be carried out by way of the touchscreen, even manually elevating and decreasing the rear spoiler (which works up by itself at 55 mph).
Though Mazda sees the EZ-6 as “actually international,” there are not any plans to convey it to the U.S., in all probability as a result of it was inbuilt China by Mazda’s three way partnership associate Changan, so it is topic to excessive tariffs. Even its availability in Europe doesn’t look like a positive factor proper now on condition that the continent’s automobile shopping for tastes are transferring extra in the direction of crossovers and away from sedans and its worth might rise an excessive amount of after taxes and import duties from China—Mazda might not convey it to Europe if it doesn’t suppose it’s going to achieve success.
