Mazda MX-30 R-EV Review 2024 | A small EV not restricted by EV range. Perfect combination?

Mazda MX-30 R-EV Review 2024 | A small EV not restricted by EV range. Perfect combination?

Jonathan Crouch writes an in-depth #mazda MX-30 R-EV Review 2024. If you want to watch more reviews on vehicles like this Mazda MX-30 R-EV 2024 #carreview make sure to #subscribe to our #channel and comment what YOU want us to #review next.

Mazda's clever little MX-30 e-Skyactiv R-EV is a PHEV, but not as you know it. Jonathan Crouch drives it.
Mazda's little MX-30 e-Skyactiv R-EV is a Plug-in Hybrid, but a very different one. The rotary engine's unique, never drives the wheels and constantly defers to an electric motor offering 53 miles of range. Sounds promising.
It's been a very long time since we've seen a Mazda with a rotary engine, that Wankel technology inextricably linked with the brand, who produced more than 2 million rotary engines between the launch of the Mazda Cosmo in 1967 and the end of production of the RX-8 sports car in 2012. Since then, rotary tech's been absent from the company's line-up, but now it's back, not in a high performance coupe but in a model we'd previously thought was an EV, the little MX-30 hatch.
The MX-30 e-Skyactiv R-EV is effectively the range extender version of that car. That's a description which might conjure up memories of the old BMW i3 range extender model, which had a rather crude little motorbike engine stacked out back to noisily cut in when the EV batteries were depleted. As we'll see, Mazda's R-EV tech is a great deal more sophisticated than that. In fact, the rotary engine it uses never directly powers the wheels. Sounds intriguing. Let's take a closer look.

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Overview 00:00
Background 00:29
Driving experience 01:43
Design and build 07:00
Market and model range 16:04
Cost of ownership 26:46
Summary 31:31

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