September 11, 2024

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New all-electric Skoda Enyaq coupe spied

This is our most effective glimpse nevertheless at the forthcoming Skoda Enyaq coupe, spied in minimal camouflage, as final enhancement tests receives underneath way in advance of the car’s launch in 2022. 

Skoda’s new EV will be unveiled in whole late following 12 months, but when it arrives it willl occupy a special placement in the marketplace as a single of the initial mainstream electric powered SUV coupes. Competition will promptly arrive in the condition of the Nissan Aryia, even so. 

The front finish of this mule is equivalent to the regular Skoda Enyaq’s. It shares the exact same sharp headlamps, wide grille, front doorways and tall trip-peak. Nevertheless, from the B-pillar rearwards all the things is new, with a clean sloping roofline, tweaked rear doorways and a svelte tailgate, equivalent in design to those found on the 2019 Skoda Vision iV concept.

In spite of the styling discrepancies, the Enyaq coupe will be centered on the exact same MEB system as the regular SUV – which implies prospective buyers should be offered the exact same powertrain selection. Entry-degree styles will get a single 177bhp electric powered motor, even though the selection-topping vRS variant should aspect a 302bhp twin-motor set up.

Battery packs should also be shared concerning the two autos, with a 62kWh device currently being equipped as regular and an 82kWh device currently being offered as an optional further. Nevertheless, because of to this new coupe’s more aerodynamic condition, we could see a minor improvement around the regular SUV’s greatest selection of 316 miles.

The new Enyaq coupe will appear with 50kW DC rapidly charging as regular, while the 62kWh battery will supply optional support for 100kW charging. The 82kWh will be obtainable with even quicker 125kW charging – and Skoda has previously claimed that it will consider concerning six and eight hrs to demand the battery with a 7kW domestic wallbox.

Within, prospective buyers will get the exact same compact digital instrument cluster, 13-inch infotainment technique, capacitive heater controls and dashboard design as the regular Enyaq SUV. Nevertheless, because of to the new sloping tailgate, the Enyaq coupe’s boot will drop significantly in dimension around the regular Enyaq’s 585-litre potential.

Tools concentrations will be similar, nevertheless, with the entry-degree product receiving synthetic leather-based upholstery, brushed aluminium trim, air-conditioning, a multi-purpose steering wheel,  rear parking sensors and a customisable ambient lights technique.

Like all coupe-SUVs, the Enyaq coupe will carry a high quality around its conventionally shaped sibling. We’re anticipating a hike of all over £1,000 around the regular product, which should set the new car’s foundation-rate at all over £31,five hundred after the Government’s £3,000 plug-in car or truck grant has been used.

Examine out our assumed on the new Skoda Enyaq prototype right here…