Skoda Enyaq iV review: range, battery & charging

Choosing which Enyaq iV is right for you is relatively straightforward. The entry-level version is ideal if you’re not planning to spend your entire life on the motorway, as it gets you a decent, but not exceptional range of just under 250 miles. Upgrading to the larger battery isn’t that expensive though, costing roughly £4,000 at the time of writing and boosting range to 339 miles in rear-drive models.

Until December 2021, all Enyaq iVs came with 50kW rapid charging as standard, and you had to pay extra to upgrade this. However, since January 2022, Skoda has made faster charging standard across the range, so the 60 can top up at 120kW and the 80, 80x and vRS at 135kW. In August 2022, an upgraded battery management system and over-the-air software updates were introduced, so new Enyaqs should be as efficient and as up-to-date as possible.

Skoda Enyaq iV range

Skoda claims the Enyaq iV will do between 246 and 339 miles on a charge depending which battery and motor combination is fitted to your car. However, in our experience – in the colder months of the year at least – you’ll struggle to get close to those figures in real-world driving. You can also expect the more aerodynamic Enyaq Coupe iV to offer slightly more range.

Our test of the smaller-battery Enyaq iV 60 on a chilly spring morning showed around 165 miles on a full charge, and around 210 miles for the Enyaq iV 80. That’s a significant drop on the quoted figures, although this isn’t an issue exclusive to the Enyaq line-up and we’d expect warmer weather would give a more positive reading.

That said, even after some fairly unsympathetic testing, the range readout dropped largely in line with the actual distance travelled – suggesting a gentler driving style might return a more favourable range figure.

Charge time

Initially, all Enyaq iV models came with 50kW rapid charging as standard, with optional upgrades to 100kW for the 60 and 125kW for the 80 available at extra cost. In January 2022, Skoda had a rethink, and now offers the 60 with 120kW charging as standard, while the 80, 80x and vRS model get a slightly faster 135kW maximum rate.

This effectively means that the latest 150kW chargers that are becoming increasingly common around the UK will replenish the battery of both models from near-empty to 80% capacity in less than 40 minutes. Many buyers will choose to charge at home, however. Doing so from a 7kW wallbox will top up the Enyaq iV 60’s battery in around nine-and-a-half hours, while the larger-battery 80 model takes almost 13 hours to do the same. All Enyaq iVs come with a cable for home wallbox charging as standard.

Another feature introduced for Enyaq iV's built from January 2022 onwards was a battery save mode. This limits the battery's charge state to 80% of the maximum in order to prolong its life as much as possible.