Skoda Plans Range Of EV Hot Hatches

EXCLUSIVE Styling additions and better handling will mark out new eRS models

- Steve Fowler

SKODA’S history of producing hot RS versions of its mainstream models will spread into its future electric vehicles, Auto Express can reveal.

Skoda’s first all-electric car will be a production version of the Vision E concept revealed at the 2017 Frankfurt motor show and due on sale at the end of 2020. It’ll be based on the Volkswagen Group’s MEB electric car platform, which will first appear on the VW I.D. hatchback. Skoda’s board member for sales and marketing, Alain Favey, told us: “There will be electric versions of vRS – eRS.

“The logic is the same – it’s not about performance as such. Our most powerful engine is 245bhp so by any stretch of imagination we’re not talking about challenging Ferrari.”

However, Favey confirmed that Skoda will only offer its EV with one battery output, hinting that the eRS version will focus on handling and cosmetic enhancements rather than performance.