Teased earlier this week, the Mazda EZ-60 electrical SUV has damaged cowl forward of its world premiere at Auto Shanghai on April 23. The manufacturing model of final yr’s Arata idea actually seems to be placing and carries over a shocking variety of outlandish particulars from the present automotive.
Trying extra like a fats Mazda 3 hatchback than a crossover, the EZ-60 seems lengthy and low, with a modern, low-slung glasshouse and crisp strains over voluptuous surfacing. Mazda’s trademark Kodo design language continues to face out right here with an illuminated blanked-off grille that hyperlinks as much as slim daytime operating lights, with the primary headlights sitting beneath inside the aggressive X-shaped entrance bumper.
The facet profile, in the meantime, is dominated by the lengthy bonnet, black roof, flush pop-out door handles and big two-tone petal-like alloy wheels. Transferring to the rear, the L-shaped taillight graphics have been lowered to a slit, sitting above the spaced-out Mazda script that additionally adorns the facet skirts.
However essentially the most attention-grabbing components of the design are the flow-through components that permit air by way of, such because the inlet inside the higher fringe of the grille and the thick flying buttress C-pillars. The EZ-60 can also be distinctive in getting side-view cameras as a substitute of mirrors.
Mazda says the design helps cut back the automotive’s drag coefficient and optimise battery cooling, resulting in enhancements in efficiency and vary. It’s capped off by a singular gloss purple paint choice, offering an extra hyperlink to the Arata (though that automotive had a matte end). No images of the inside has been supplied up to now, however an earlier spyshot confirmed a widescreen show panel with touchscreens for each the centre and entrance passenger.
The EZ-60 is the second EV to be developed along with Mazda’s Chinese language accomplice Changan, after the EZ-6/6e. It ought to due to this fact utilise the identical EPA platform as its sedan sibling and the associated Deepal L07, S05 and S07.
It also needs to be powered by the identical mechanicals, though specs have but to be revealed. For context, the 6e’s rear motor produces 258 PS (190 kW) and 320 Nm of torque and is juiced by a 68.8 kWh lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery to ship a WLTP-rated vary of 479 km. In the meantime, the Lengthy Vary makes barely much less energy at 245 PS (180 kW) however has a bigger 80 kWh nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) battery for a claimed vary of 552 km.
Identical to the 6e, the EZ-60 is ready to be exported to Europe and Southeast Asia beneath a brand new identify. It’s been reported that Mazda has trademarked the CX-6e moniker, linking it to each the 6e and the Japanese carmaker’s fashionable CX vary of SUVs.
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