Mazda MX -30: The most important ingredient of the Japanese current is still missing – electric car

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Mazda’s first electric car actually wants to be a plugin hybrid with a Wankel engine. Instead of the extravagant solution, however, a purely electrical variant of the MX-30 comes onto the market. Site and site do the practical test.

Mazda likes to do things differently: While the whole combustion world relies on the smallest possible turbo engines, there are still relatively large suction engines among the Japanese under the Skyactive label. Mazda has brought the first self-igniting petrol engine into a row with Skyactiv-X, a hermaphrodite from diesel and otto engine. And Mazda was the last manufacturer to offer Wankel engines in Europe-until 2012 there were the circular drivers in Mazda RX-8.

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The Wankel has a bad reputation in Germany: Hardly any copy of the legendary NSU Ro80 from 1967 reached 100.000 kilometers without changing the engine or at least an expensive overhaul. Nevertheless, the technology of the German developer Felix Wankel has properties that still make it interesting. Mazda cultivated her and made it steady. Because no pistons move up and down in the Wankel engine, but rotates a circular piston, it works particularly low in vibration and even-and even when a single circular piston works in a small engine. In addition, Wankel engines build very compact and still deliver a lot of performance.

Wankel – low vibration and strong

These properties recommend the Wankel engine as a suitable range extender, i.e. as a component that is not needed in everyday life, and may therefore take advantage of as little space and weight, but if necessary, they have to deliver performance properly. The Mazda drive could play its advantages, for example, compared to the earlier years of the BMW i3, the optionally offered range-extender is a two-cylinded motor scooter engine that becomes active loudly and with hard vibrations, but does not provide enough performance for motorway speeds can. The MX-30, on the other hand, could be fit for the purely electrical everyday life and the longer overland ride with the combination of small battery and Wankel.

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As exciting as this concept sounds: it is not yet finished for the German market. And so Mazda initially offers the MX-30 as a purely electric car with a battery of 35.5 kWh. With this battery capacity and the possible ranges, the Japanese competes only with electrical winches such as the Honda E, the Mini Cooper SE despite its stately dimensions (4.40 m long, 1.85 m wide, 1.56 m high) and the Fiat 500e.

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Consumption and range

Like this, the purely electric MX-30 is not to be used for really long motorway routes: at motorway speed 130 it consumes 27.5 kWh per 100 kilometers in the Efahrer test and thus only creates 120 kilometers. On our test round at 16 degrees outside temperature and rain, the range display already warned after 70 kilometers to look for a charging option-the remaining range had fallen under 50 km at that time. Some cars recover some long-distance suitability through pronounced quick charging skills-not the Mazda. With a maximum of 37 kW charging power, the loading takes up to 80 percent a three -quarters of an hour. So the MX-30 is a city car. After all, it creates well under 20 kWh per 100 km in city traffic and a range of a good 190 kilometers. In the test average we came to 21.5 kWh /100 km.

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Space and interior

Despite the dimensions of a compact SUVs, the MX-30 does not offer much more than Mini and Honda E in the interior: the rear seats are very uncomfortable because of the strongly sloping roof line, the knee is too scarce. For children, however, the space is okay. The unusual, back-opening fund doors do not make access to the rear seats easier. On the contrary: As with the BMW i3, the front doors have to be opened before the rear.

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By the way, if you assume that Mazda had stolen the idea with the doors hit at BMW at the back, it could not be wrong: BMW rather copied the unorthodox door construction at the Mazda RX-8, which was introduced in 2001.

Unfortunately, the rear doors have another disadvantage: For crash safety reasons, the sheet metal profiles of the door frame are very strong, the indoor cladding also applies. The whole development means that, for example, when viewing the rear windows, for example when looking at the shoulder, you do not see through the windows. The overview to the rear is dismayed and really dangerous for road users that are therefore overlooked. Mazda would do well to revise the design and offer a three-door variant with longer front doors.

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In the interior, the nested center console with shelves made of cork material is noticeable. It’s not practical, but it looks good.

Infotainment and assistance systems

For the control of heating and ventilation, Mazda relies on a touch display-i.e. on a concept similar to Audi’s luxury car cars. The usability is even a little better because the control panel is comparatively high. In contrast to Audi, Mazda does not provide for the large main display. This is not a big loss because the menu navigation works well with a rotary press element. However, the lack of Touch is terrible for the cell phone integration via Android Auto or Apple CarPlay: selecting clickable elements with a rotary press button has something from the advice game and directs far too much from.

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The integrated functions also do not fully convince: The voice control, for example. The quasi naturally language operation, for example of the current VW software platform, continues for years, just like the real-time traffic data of the navigation system.

This also applies to the assistance systems: the MX-30 keeps the trail with late and rough steering interventions, but the distance temporary works work properly. The Mazda does not reliably recognize speed restrictions, there is no automatic takeover of limits. After all, functioning Nobrems assistants are on board.

Driving performance and driving characteristics

A more than 1.7 -ton car with 107 kW (145 hp) cannot tear out trees. Nevertheless, the Mazda flink starts to move. It is usually the faster car at the traffic lights. Up to 100 km/h the acceleration is already a bit tough. With almost ten seconds, the MX-30 falls somewhat from the dynamic frame. The top speed is even limited to 140 km/h. This fits the city car – and prevents a high -speed driver prevents the possible range to shrink to less than 100 km.

We really like the Mazda chassis: it uses the low center of gravity and a rather tight interpretation for a very agile deflection behavior. Despite its size, the MX-30 feels like a go-kart-it is really fun.

Conclusion Mazda MX-30: not yet recommended

The MX-30 does not withstand a comparison with cars constructed for electric drive: a VW ID.3, for example, is more compact on the outside, offers a lot more interior, it consumes less, continues and faster, has more modern infotainment and is also in the base by 3.000 euros cheaper than the MX-30. You cannot recommend the Mazda despite the likeable properties. With the Range Exterender, however, this could completely turn around: 2022 the Wankel-MX-30 should come.

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1 thought on “Mazda MX -30: The most important ingredient of the Japanese current is still missing – electric car”

  1. In this test it had e-drivers…
    visibly difficult to report something positive about the tested E-Mazda. The manufacturer really did everything to make the vehicle look as bad as possible. Unfortunately, the intention behind it does not reveal itself to me. Mazda has certainly reached one, namely that the demand for the vehicle will be very narrow limits. If it is so far that the range-extreme variant is offered, it could be that there is no more market for it because the ranges of the standard variants of other manufacturers are so high that such a version no longer makes sense.

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