Mazda MX-30 vs Skoda Epiq

The Skoda Epiq is £595 cheaper to buy. The Skoda Epiq is cheaper to charge, roughly £136 a year versus £192 for the Mazda MX-30, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the Skoda Epiq comes out roughly £875 cheaper overall. These figures cover list price and home charging only - insurance, servicing, tyres and depreciation will move the real total.

EVcarsguide estimates a real-world motorway range of about 104 miles for the Mazda MX-30 and 158 miles for the Skoda Epiq - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The Skoda Epiq goes roughly 54 miles further between charging stops. A rapid charge to 80% takes around 36 minutes in the Mazda MX-30 and 28 in the Skoda Epiq, so the Skoda Epiq loses less time at each stop. That makes the Skoda Epiq the stronger long-distance car.

The two are within 3 mm on width, so neither is meaningfully easier to thread into a tight space. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 605 mm of total clearance for the Mazda MX-30 and about 602 mm of total clearance for the Skoda Epiq.

Over a 8-year ownership window EVcarsguide's degradation model projects roughly 84% battery health for the Mazda MX-30 and 90% for the Skoda Epiq. That gives the Skoda Epiq a modest edge in retained real-world range. The Skoda Epiq's LFP-type pack tolerates daily 100% charging, while the Mazda MX-30's NMC-type pack lasts longest kept to about 80% for everyday use.