January 13, 2025

Byrdr Automotive

Car and Comfort

New all-electric Skoda Enyaq coupe spied

This is our best look nonetheless at the future Skoda Enyaq coupe, spied in negligible camouflage, as ultimate advancement testing receives beneath way ahead of the car’s launch in 2022. 

Skoda’s new EV will be revealed in full late up coming yr, but when it arrives it willl occupy a special posture in the current market as 1 of the 1st mainstream electric SUV coupes. Competition will swiftly arrive in the shape of the Nissan Aryia, nevertheless. 

The entrance finish of this mule is similar to the conventional Skoda Enyaq’s. It shares the identical sharp headlamps, wide grille, entrance doors and tall trip-top. On the other hand, from the B-pillar rearwards everything is new, with a contemporary sloping roofline, tweaked rear doors and a svelte tailgate, related in design and style to individuals discovered on the 2019 Skoda Eyesight iV strategy.

In spite of the styling dissimilarities, the Enyaq coupe will be centered on the identical MEB system as the conventional SUV – which indicates prospective buyers really should be presented the identical powertrain vary. Entry-amount types will get a solitary 177bhp electric motor, even though the vary-topping vRS variant really should aspect a 302bhp twin-motor set up.

Battery packs really should also be shared between the two cars, with a 62kWh unit currently being equipped as conventional and an 82kWh unit currently being presented as an optional further. On the other hand, owing to this new coupe’s much more aerodynamic shape, we could see a minor advancement above the conventional SUV’s greatest vary of 316 miles.

The new Enyaq coupe will come with 50kW DC speedy charging as conventional, whilst the 62kWh battery will provide optional assistance for 100kW charging. The 82kWh will be obtainable with even more rapidly 125kW charging – and Skoda has beforehand stated that it will acquire between 6 and eight several hours to cost the battery with a 7kW domestic wallbox.

Inside, prospective buyers will get the identical compact electronic instrument cluster, 13-inch infotainment technique, capacitive heater controls and dashboard design and style as the conventional Enyaq SUV. On the other hand, owing to the new sloping tailgate, the Enyaq coupe’s boot will drop dramatically in sizing above the conventional Enyaq’s 585-litre capacity.

Tools amounts will be comparable, even though, with the entry-amount product obtaining artificial leather upholstery, brushed aluminium trim, air-conditioning, a multi-operate steering wheel,  rear parking sensors and a customisable ambient lighting technique.

Like all coupe-SUVs, the Enyaq coupe will have a quality above its conventionally shaped sibling. We’re anticipating a hike of all over £1,000 above the conventional product, which really should set the new car’s foundation-price at all over £31,five hundred the moment the Government’s £3,000 plug-in auto grant has been applied.

Look at out our believed on the new Skoda Enyaq prototype here…