Mercedes-Benz GLB vs Skoda Enyaq

The Mercedes-Benz GLB costs £7,090 more than the Skoda Enyaq. For that premium it adds 111 miles more WLTP range, 155 kW faster peak rapid charging and 50 kW more power. On EVcarsguide's combined category scores, the Mercedes-Benz GLB comes out ahead overall.

The Skoda Enyaq is £7,090 cheaper to buy. Running costs are almost identical - about £160 a year either way, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the Skoda Enyaq comes out roughly £7,170 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 268 miles for the Mercedes-Benz GLB and 224 miles for the Skoda Enyaq - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The Mercedes-Benz GLB goes roughly 44 miles further between charging stops. Both rapid-charge to 80% in a similar time, around 20-24 minutes.

The two are within 18 mm on width, so neither is meaningfully easier to thread into a tight space. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 539 mm of total clearance for the Mercedes-Benz GLB and about 521 mm of total clearance for the Skoda Enyaq. The Skoda Enyaq also turns in a 1.9 m tighter circle, which helps with U-turns and multi-storey ramps.

Over a 8-year ownership window EVcarsguide's degradation model projects roughly 84% battery health for the Mercedes-Benz GLB and 84% for the Skoda Enyaq. That is close enough that capacity loss should not decide between them. Both use NMC-type cells, so for daily use keep the charge limit near 80% to slow degradation.