Mazda 6e EV launching at Thai Auto Expo this month – will RHD Deepal-based sedan additionally come to Malaysia?

The Mazda 6eone of many extra attention-grabbing EVs out there, will probably be launched on the year-ending 2025 Thai Motor Expo, which opens on the finish of this month. Mazda’s electrical sedan was previewed on the 2025 Bangkok Worldwide Motor Present in March this 12 months, so its impending launch within the kingdom is not any huge shock.

It’s described by Mazda Thailand as the primary ‘100% electrical automobile (BEV) developed by Mazda underneath the multi-solution expertise method,’ That will be ignoring the MX-30 and the truth that the 6e is definitely a reskinned Deepal L07. Mazda and Changan (model proprietor of Deepal) are long-time companions in China.

The native claims embody 50:50 weight distribution, an 80 kWh battery that delivers 552 km of vary and ‘quick cost’ expertise, permitting it get from 30-80% SoC in simply quarter-hour. “The automobile additionally embodies the highly effective driving efficiency for which Mazda is understood, developed by Mazda’s engineers who meticulously attended to each element,” the assertion provides. Whoever developed the 6e, it’s a proven fact that China is main the EV cost and so they’re fairly good at this.

Anyway, the Mazda 6e (EZ-6 in China) is a good looking automobile with a pleasant inside. The 6e is made by Changan in Nanjing, China and the right-hand-drive automobile for Thailand is predicted to hail from there as properly (the BIMS showcar was LHD).

In Europeall variants of the 6e are powered by a single rear motor, with the bottom mannequin pushing out 258 PS (190 kW) and 320 Nm, good for 0-100 km/h in 7.6 seconds. A 68.8 kWh lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery offers a spread of 479 km on the WLTP cycle and accepts as much as 165 kW of DC quick charging – 10 to 80% SoC in 24 minutes.

The Lengthy Vary variants get a 80 kWh nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) pack that enhances vary to 552 km. Right here, the motor is barely detuned to 245 PS (180 kW) and 0-100 km/h is barely slower at 7.8 seconds. As a result of it’s an NMC pack, DC charging drops to a paltry 90 kW, taking 45 minutes from 10 to 80% SoC. The onboard AC charger is 11 kW.

Apparently, the Mazda 6e is costlier than a Tesla Mannequin 3 in Europe. It’s priced from €44,900 (RM215,858) to €48,500 (RM233,166) in Germany, whereas the TM3 could be had there from €39,990 (RM192,246) for the bottom rear-wheel-drive to €44,990 (RM216,260) for the Lengthy Vary RWD mannequin that’s not supplied in Malaysia. That is regardless of the Teslas providing considerably extra vary, model-for-model. We’ll see how a lot it prices in Thailand.

How about Malaysia, you ask. Bermaz, the Malaysian Mazda distributor, welcomed the Deepal model into its fold earlier this 12 months, so after-sales wouldn’t be an issue ought to the Mazda 6e finally make its approach right here. Nonetheless, there was no information on Deepal since that January preview.

Anyway, what do you consider this sharp-suited, Mazda-badged electrical sedan and do you wish to see it in Malaysia? The {hardware} is perhaps from Deepal, however belief Hiroshima to infuse its driving traits into the 6e, which seems good.

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