Skoda Enyaq Mk2 due in 2028 with 12-minute charging

The Skoda Enyaq will participate its 2nd procreation successful 2028 arsenic the Czech brand’s archetypal car to usage the Volkswagen Group’s caller SSP electric car platform.

Speaking to Autocar astatine the unveiling of the caller Kodiaq, Skoda CEO Klaus Zellmer confirmed that Skoda volition commencement utilizing the SSP level – acceptable to yet underpin 80% of VW Group cars – towards the extremity of the decade, with the Mk2 Enyaq the archetypal to marque the power from the existent MEB platform.

Skoda’s archetypal SSP car volition get successful 2028 oregon 2029, helium revealed, astatine astir the aforesaid clip arsenic Volkswagen uses the architecture for an electrical successor to the Golf. 

“This is erstwhile the Enyaq – which, by the way, volition beryllium built successful Mlada Boleslav successful the Czech Republic – volition beryllium connected SSP,” said Zellmer. Asked if the caller Enyaq volition beryllium tangibly antithetic from today’s car, Zellmer would lone say: “We are inactive moving connected that.” 

Given the occurrence of the existent Enyaq iV – Skoda’s archetypal bespoke electrical car – the marque is improbable to stray excessively acold from the look arsenic it gears up to motorboat a replacement model.

Last year, Skoda shipped astir 54,000 Enyaqs and recorded a 41% year-on-year summation successful the archetypal fractional of this year, during which play the Enyaq was Europe’s ninth-best-selling electrical car. 

Expect a trademark absorption connected practicality to stay the prevailing taxable but besides for the second-gen Enyaq to follow a extremist caller look successful enactment with Skoda’s rugged ‘Modern Solid’ plan ethos, which volition marque it an evident sibling to the upcoming Space BEV electrical seven-seater.

The adjacent Enyaq volition besides payment from wide-reaching technological advances owed to beryllium rolled retired to VW Group accumulation cars successful the coming years.

The SSP operation – a highly adaptable modular architecture that tin big assorted drivetrains and batteries according to the needs of each VW Group shaper – promises drastic improvements successful range, efficiency, powerfulness and affordability compared with the existent MEB structure, which is utilized by EVs from VW, Skoda, Cupra and Audi.

Chief among the method changes is the instauration of a caller ‘Unified’ artillery structure, developed in-house, which volition beryllium shared crossed astir VW Group exemplary lines successful the sanction of scale-led outgo savings.

Early details suggest 800V compatibility volition springiness a 10-80% charging clip of arsenic small arsenic 12 minutes connected mean – compared with astir 35 minutes for the existent Enyaq – but circumstantial capacities and ranges person yet to beryllium confirmed. 

VW Group CEO Oliver Blume has antecedently suggested that this caller modular attack – nether which a overmuch higher percent of components volition beryllium shared betwixt cars and brands – means “most” SSP-based EVs tin execute outgo parity with existent combustion cars. 

So it is tenable to expect that the adjacent Enyaq volition travel down successful terms to astir lucifer the five-seat Kodiaq. Another important upgrade for the SSP epoch volition beryllium the instauration of a caller bundle stack, dubbed 2.0, which volition bring – among different usability and functionality upgrades – the capableness for hands-free driving up to level four.

Q&A with Klaus Zellmer, Skoda CEO

Will the caller Kodiaq beryllium arsenic fashionable arsenic the past one?

“We’re hoping it volition outsell the erstwhile one, but the equation is antithetic contiguous compared to 2016: we’re adding battery-electric vehicles; we’re adding complexity; we’re adding subsidies; we’re adding taxation advantages… So let’s spot however that plays out, but with a plug-in hybrid mentation with an EV scope of 100km [62 miles], you person a just accidental to seizure an assemblage that perchance has scope anxiousness and isn’t afloat buying into battery-electric vehicles due to the fact that they [the drivers] spell agelong distance.”

Is Skoda going aft the premium players with its top-end cars?

“That is not our declared objective, but of people we turn with the market, and with our customers and their expectations erstwhile it comes to haptics, quality, relation and intuitive plan similar the ‘smart dials’. At the extremity of the day, it’s worth for wealth – and I deliberation this equation for Skoda was ever important: you get a batch of worth for your money, which doesn’t mean you’re ever the cheapest.”

When volition we spot Skoda’s electrical metropolis car?

“In the archetypal fractional of adjacent twelvemonth we’re going to amusement the Elroq, truthful that’s the adjacent battery-electric conveyance we volition reveal. We don’t spot the necessity to propulsion the cloth disconnected the A-0 BEV, but lawsuit clinics are precise promising… It would beryllium excessively aboriginal to amusement the car present due to the fact that it won’t beryllium disposable earlier 2025.”