Bob Flavin drives the Enyaq in 60 minutes, 9am today.

According to the Irish Times.

When it arrives on the Irish market early next year, the Enyaq will come with three sizes of battery. The entry-level rear-wheel drive model will have a 55kWh battery pack, powering a 150kW rear electric motor and offering a maximum range of up to 340km. Next up is a version with a 62 kWh battery with a range of 500km in the WLTP cycle. Finally there is the 82-kWh battery with a range of 460km but adding a second 75kW electric motor to the front axle, thereby giving you all-wheel drive capabilities. A sporty RS version of this version will be offered as well, able to get from 0 to 100 km/h in 6.2 seconds and with a top speed of 180 km/h.

If, as strongly hinted, the Enyaq comes in just slightly above the Kodiaq, that means prices will be in the region of €50,000 after grants. That’s probably okay for an electric car of this size, but big-budget money for your average Skoda buyer.

50 K Euro's for a Skoda ? same platform as the id.3 so apart from larger boot it doesn't look that big at all.

50 K for 55 Kwh and only 200 Hp ? not a hope.

That's model 3 territory and probably including Autopilot from looking at the tesla site last night.

Much faster model 3 with Autopilot vs 50 K skoda with no autopilot and much slower ? that's a very difficult decision, NOT !

I guess the car manufacturers know that there's no plan to ban ICE for another 10-20 years if that happens at all so they are dragging their heals big time.

0lddog wrote: »

Another VAG effort to prove that there is no demand for ( their ) EVs ?

Probably priced high enough to ensure People buy the more profitable diesels.

They got until 2030 or a bit more before there's a ban or talks of a ban so you can be sure they will continue to produce highly toxic emitting diesels until the last possible moment.

It's all about profit and there's no signs of proper strict emissions like in the USA where diesels would never pass as we've already seen but it's ok for E.U legislators to allow this dirt on our roads. They should be ashamed.

unkel wrote: »

50k is too much. That said, the cross over is a very popular segment and the 40k Hyundai Kona (more range but smaller and probably inferior to this car in every other way) was the best selling EV in Ireland last year. So VAG is not a million miles out either.

Still, at 50 K it's not that good.

If it was 50 K for the max battery and dual motors I'd say fair enough.

Lantus wrote: »

Vw profit for 2017, 18 and 19 was 14,14 and 17 billion euros respectively.

I'm still at a loss as to why and how tax payers should be funding grants for these companies given the grotesque profits they make. Grants don't make anything cheaper for the consumer because as we see in construction the price goes up by the grant value anyway.

Its just free money for the manufacturer.

Coupled with that they are expensive anyway.


We have already seen how to reduce carbon and energy use over the last month through working at home. We need a radical redesign of our cities to capitalise and embed that culture, not batteries in our cars. This

You are 100% correct, however, the car manufacturers are loosing money on electrics as it stands right now and it will probably be years before they make the same profits they make on ICE cars, but, cutting grants will give them the excuse to keep the car costs high while being 10,000 more, at least for Ireland, and nobody will buy a single electric car at that point and the car manufacturers couldn't care less because they'd rather continue to make vehicles that cause serious health issues in the public rather than sell the cars at a loss.

It's as simple as that really, until the costs of batteries come down the car companies are not going to make a loss.

Even Elon Musk can't make a car at the right cost for Europeans and you can be sure he couldn't care less.

The VAT and VRT are real issues in Europe, VRT for Ireland because some electric cars are subject to some VRT, the Model 3 for instance has 3500 extra charge for VRT, it's ridiculous.

A 35 K USD model 3 in the USA costs 50K Euro's in Ireland, this is because we continue to allow out Government to fleece us with VAT, VRT and not to mention income tax and USC, it's a shocking country which is badly managed, what happens to bad managers ? yes they get fired and so too should the Government with no pension!