• Cheaper to fuel than a petrol or diesel car
• 175kW charging means 300 miles of range in 28 minutes
• 77kWh battery should be enough for most owners

What are the running costs?

How cheap the Enyaq iV is to run is very much comes down to how you charge it, and what electricity tariff you have at home. Public charging for electric cars can be very expensive, especially if you want to use the fastest charging technology available, and you don’t have an up-front subscription.

But if you have a wallbox at home, recharging an Enyaq iV will be significantly cheaper than refuelling a diesel or petrol. This explains its excellent Miles Per Pound (MPP) figure of 5.4 - 12.4. If you’re a company car driver, you can also enjoy huge tax savings compared to traditional petrol and diesel cars, and even smaller bills than if you were running a plug-in hybrid.

Two battery pack sizes are currently available to Enyaq iV buyers in the UK: 59kWh in the Enyaq 60 and 77kWh (for kilowatt hour, the standard measure of electric vehicle battery capacity) in the Enyaq 85 and 85x. Skoda quotes a WLTP-backed range figure of 268 miles for the Enyaq 60. Expect nearer 200 in the real world, and less in the winter. A heat pump is optional on all models.

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Go for the 85 and the official driving range jumps to 359 for the rear-wheel drive model and 332 for the all-wheel drive 85x. Our pick of the Enyaq lineup would be the rear-drive 85, although you shouldn’t overlook the 60 if you don’t do many long trips. The smaller battery car also dips below £40k in SE-L trim, avoiding the expensive car supplement that is in addition to car tax. Even so, a Vauxhall Grandland or Renault Scenic are more affordable options.

With the faster 175kW charging system installed and access to the public charging network, you can charge up from 10% to 80% of the 77kWh battery capacity in 28 minutes. Entry-level Enyaq iVs come with 165kW DC fast charging as standard, which should give you an 80% charge in 24 mins.

As for home charging, using a domestic wallbox from empty will take about 12 hours for the 77kWh model and nine hours for the 59kWh.

Servicing and warranty

Servicing intervals are once a year or every 20,000 miles. It should be cheaper to service than a conventional car, as there are fewer moving parts and fluids to change.

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The Enyaq iV gets the usual three-year/60,000-mile Skoda car warranty – though the EV battery components are covered for eight years or 100,000 miles (whichever comes sooner). You can extend that to four years/80,000 miles, four years/100,000 miles or five years/100,000 miles as a cost option.

That level of cover is now a little off the pace compared with rivals such as Hyundai, Kia and Toyota, which in the latter case, offers up to 10 years.

Reliability

• No recalls so far
• Some electrical gremlins
• Mixed reviews from Parkers readers
  

There have been no safety recalls at the time of writing, but you can check the government website for up-to date information. That’s not to say the Enyaq has been fault free, with reports of various glitches in the 12v electrical system that runs everything other than the main motor.

Our owners’ reviews section certainly shows a mix of experience, and we’d love to hear from any current or ex-Enyaq owners to see if things have got better.

An update to the Enyaq at the start of 2022 includes an improved ‘Battery Care Mode’, which pre-heats or cools the battery as you approach a pre-programmed charging point to increase its lifespan.