The Czech company is making good on its electrification promises – it already revealed a host of plug-in hybrids (Superb, Octavia iV) and a highly affordable electric city car, the CITIGOe iV. They are now gearing up for their first proper full electric, the Volkswagen Group’s Modular Electrification Toolkit (MEB)-based Enyaq iV.
We are dealing with an all-electric SUV so the Skoda Enyaq iV will be closely related to the upcoming VW ID.4 and the automaker has finally revealed the introduction date alongside a shadowy silhouette. We are in for a long wait, though, because the official event is scheduled for September 1st and will take place in Prague.
The company is clearly treating the Enyaq iV as its most important model of the year judging by the extensive teaser campaign. Still, we can't help but wonder why Skoda bothered to display a mysterious shot of a ghostly silhouette when on its own revealed most of the car’s design with an official gallery of its camouflaged prototypes.
Even more, the company already blurted out most of the technical details – so for the Prague event we are left hanging only on the actual exterior design and the roomy interior. According to Skoda, the Enyaq iV will become a proud platform brother to the VW ID.3, ID.4 and the recently introduced SEAT el-Born.
The Czech EV will be offered in three battery configurations – 55 (52 kWh usable, 62 (58 kWh usable) and 82 kWh (net capacity of 77 kWh). Yeah, no surprises here. Rear-wheel drive and AWD will also be on offer, with the top range achieved by the former with the biggest pack – up to 500 km in the WLTP cycle.
The automaker is adopting the confusing naming scheme formerly introduced by Audi – the smallest battery option is dubbed the Enyaq iV 50, the middle one is the Enyaq iV 60 and the flagship is, you guessed right, the Enyaq 80. The engine options are also just a tad easier to understand.
We have 109, 132 and 150 kW for each rear-wheel drive battery choice. Then the AWD get their own designations - 80X and the vRS, with 95 kW and 225 kW respectively. Performance wise, the latter jumps to 62 mph (100 kph) in 6.2 seconds and tops out at 112 mph (180 kph).
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