Mazda 6e vs Volvo EX40

The Mazda 6e is £615 cheaper to buy. The Mazda 6e is cheaper to charge, roughly £152 a year versus £184 for the Volvo EX40, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the Mazda 6e comes out roughly £775 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 290 miles for the Mazda 6e and 242 miles for the Volvo EX40 - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The Mazda 6e goes roughly 48 miles further between charging stops. Both rapid-charge to 80% in a similar time, around 24-28 minutes.

The two are within 17 mm on width, so neither is meaningfully easier to thread into a tight space. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 527 mm of total clearance for the Volvo EX40 and about 510 mm of total clearance for the Mazda 6e. The Volvo EX40 also turns in a 0.6 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 Mazda 6e and 84% for the Volvo EX40. That gives the Mazda 6e a modest edge in retained real-world range. The Mazda 6e's LFP-type pack tolerates daily 100% charging, while the Volvo EX40's NMC-type pack lasts longest kept to about 80% for everyday use.