Leapmotor B10 vs Mazda 6e

The Mazda 6e costs £7,500 more than the Leapmotor B10. For that premium it adds 78 miles more WLTP range, 27 kW faster peak rapid charging and 30 kW more power. The Leapmotor B10 is not just cheaper - it also offers 94 litres more boot space. On EVcarsguide's combined category scores, the Mazda 6e comes out ahead overall.

The Leapmotor B10 is £7,500 cheaper to buy. The Mazda 6e is cheaper to charge, roughly £152 a year versus £192 for the Leapmotor B10, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the Leapmotor B10 comes out roughly £7,300 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 193 miles for the Leapmotor B10 and 290 miles for the Mazda 6e - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The Mazda 6e goes roughly 97 miles further between charging stops. Both rapid-charge to 80% in a similar time, around 20-24 minutes.

The two are within 5 mm on width, so neither is meaningfully easier to thread into a tight space. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 515 mm of total clearance for the Leapmotor B10 and about 510 mm of total clearance for the Mazda 6e. The Leapmotor B10 also turns in a 0.9 m tighter circle, which helps with U-turns and multi-storey ramps.

Over a 8-year ownership window EVcarsguide's degradation model projects roughly 90% battery health for the Leapmotor B10 and 90% for the Mazda 6e. That is close enough that capacity loss should not decide between them. Both use LFP-type cells, which are happy charged to 100% every day.