With the current-generation Mazda 6 coming to the top of manufacturing this 12 months, the Japanese producer is ready to unveil the sedan in all-electric guise on the Beijing Auto Present subsequent week, WhichCar has reported.
Stated to be badged ‘EZ-6’, the upcoming sedan is designed from the bottom up as an electrical car, nevertheless it isn’t solely a Mazda growth, and as a substitute relies on the Changan Deepal SL03 and subsequently constructed on a Changan platform, and is alleged to sport dimensions equivalent to these of the Chinese language mannequin.
The SL03 is in any other case referred to as the L07, which was launched with the S07 SUV in Thailand in the beginning of this 12 months, providing as much as 485 km and 540 km of vary (NEDC) for the S07 SUV and L07 sedan, respectively.
The upcoming ‘EZ-6’ shall be for the Chinese language market, and in response to Tycho de Feijter on X/Twitter, Mazda has filed for emblems for the phrases ‘Mazda EZ-6’ and ‘Mazda EZ-60’ in China, with the previous probably for the sedan primarily based on the platform codenamed J90A, and the latter prone to be for an upcoming SUV codenamed J90K.
A unique naming conference seems to be within the works for the Japanese producer’s upcoming mannequin for different markets corresponding to Japan, Europe, North America and Australasia, in response to WhichCar, noting that Mazda has filed to trademark the ‘Mazda 6e’ and ‘6e’ names with the European Union Mental Property Workplace final month to safe its use for “cars and their components”, and “electrical vehicles and their components”.
The separate naming construction may see the long run Mazda 6 for these markets use the producer’s personal Skyactiv Multi-Resolution Scalable Structure, in preparation for its full-scale launch of EV fashions from 2028 that’s a part of its three-phase roadmap.
At present, Mazda’s EV mannequin vary globally consists of the MX-30 and the CX-30 EV that’s for the Chinese language market. In Malaysia, the MX-30 EV was launched in December 2022 in two variants, priced at RM199k and that includes a 35.5 kWh battery for as much as 199 km of vary.
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