The all-new Mazda EZ-6 electric sedan will go on sale in China and Europe this year, Japanese automaker announced on Tuesday.
First unveiled as a concept few months ago at Auto China 2024, the Mazda EZ-6 would be officially launched in the fall of 2024 as a rival to the BMW i4 and Tesla Model 3.
In July, the vehicle successfully rolled off the assembly line at Changan Mazda, Mazda’s joint venture in China. Concurrently, Mazda and Changan Mazda signed an Agreement on Electric Vehicle Export Cooperation, designating Changan Mazda as its exclusive Chinese new energy R&D and production base facing the global market.
Although the driving form has changed, Mazda has leveraged its extensive expertise in dynamic performance tuning from the gasoline vehicle era to elevate driving pleasure for Mazda EZ-6, transcending the Jinba-Ittai (car and driver as one) offered by Mazda 6. Previously, experts from Mazda’s European R&D center had completed dynamic performance tuning and validation of the Mazda EZ-6 at the Chongqing Automobile Testing Grounds, the highest specification automotive test field in China.
The EZ-6 sedan is based on the Changan Deepal SL03 which suggest an all-electric range of 600 km base on the Chinese CTLC testing cycle. Mazda hasn’t officially revealed powertrain and battery details yet
As for intelligence, the Mazda EZ-6 adopts the leading intelligence and electrification technology of Changan Automobile, Mazda’s Chinese partner. The new car will be equipped with Level 2.5 autonomous driving assistance, a 7nm Qualcomm SA8155P chip, four high-definition panoramic cameras, and twelve high-performance ultrasonic radars. It will realize various intelligent driving scenarios such as autonomous parking, remote parking, remote intelligent parking, and trace-back parking.
Mazda currently sells just one electric vehicle in Europe, the MX-30 compact SUV.
