Mazda MX-30 EV Charging Cable

Two MX-30s, and one of them has a rotary engine

The e-Skyactiv EV is the battery electric car: 35.5 kWh, 124 miles WLTP, 50 kW DC charging with eighty per cent in 36 minutes. The e-Skyactiv R-EV, which reached the UK in 2023, is a range extender with a 17.8 kWh battery, 53 miles of electric range and over 400 miles in total, and its generator is an 830 cc single rotor Wankel engine that never drives the wheels.

That rotary is the only one in production and it is genuinely interesting, but for charging purposes what matters is the smaller battery and a slightly different charger: 7.2 kW on the R-EV against 6.6 kW on the electric car, with DC dropping from 50 kW to 36 kW.

Both take their full rate at home

This is one of the cars that loses nothing on a domestic supply. The 6.6 kW charger is single phase by design at roughly 29 amps, well inside what a home charge point provides, so the car takes its full rated power on any ordinary driveway.

That is the electric car. The German catalogue records it as single phase only, with 300 minutes to a full charge on a 6.6 kW wall box; 32 kWh over five hours is 6.4 kW, which fits. The R-EV is quoted by Mazda UK at 7.2 kW for twenty to eighty per cent in one hour thirty minutes against a home or public charger, which is the same unit the CX-60 uses.

The ceiling is the car, so a heavier cable finishes at the same time. There is one unresolved wrinkle: from April 2022 the continental MX-30 was re-specified to an 11 kW three phase charger, on which the German data models only about 3.0 kW from a single phase. Whether UK cars of that period ever got the 11 kW unit is not established - the UK-facing data still shows 6.6 kW. If you have a 2022-on car and it charges noticeably slower than five hours, that is the reason.

Where Mazda puts the socket, and it is not where BMW puts it

Offside rear quarter, and we can be unusually confident because Mazda own rescue manual gives the procedure for releasing a stuck connector: remove the rear mud guard on the right side and reach in from inside the tyre housing. That is an absolute statement about the physical side of the car, not a translation.

It is worth noting that Mazda does not follow the convention other manufacturers use of putting plug-in hybrid sockets at the front and electric car sockets at the rear. Both the MX-30 and the R-EV charge from the offside rear, and so does the CX-60 plug-in hybrid. The fuel filler on the R-EV is on the opposite flank.

How long a full charge takes

Those times come from dividing the pack by the delivered power and adding 13 per cent for losses, then rounding to the quarter hour. The miles column uses 3.5 miles per kWh, which holds up in winter as well as summer. Columns are the R-EV at 17.8 kWh and the electric car at about 32 kWh usable. Read the row that matches your car.

Six hours from flat on the electric car and under three on the R-EV. Those are both easy overnight numbers, and on a 124 mile car the usual pattern is topping up rather than filling.

Which length for an MX-30

The MX-30 is 4.40 metres with the socket at the offside rear, so ten metres is the safe default and five metres works where the car reverses in with the charge point on the right.

Fifteen metres suits a charge point at the far end of a drive or on a shared parking area. The measurement that counts is the one taken with the car in its usual spot, plus a margin for the slack the lead needs.

How these cables are built

IEC 62196-2 construction, CE marked, IP55 sealed and tested from -30C through to +50C.

The three pin cable is built to IEC 62752, CE marked, sealed to IP67 and rated from -30C to +60C. Backed by a two year manufacturer's warranty, with free next working day delivery and a 30 day return window.

Related: Mazda CX-60 PHEV EV Charging Cable, and Mazda charging cables for every other model we cover. For a wall box or public post the lead is the Type 2 to Type 2 charging cable.

Mazda MX-30 charging cable questions

How fast does an MX-30 charge at home?

6.6 kW on the battery electric car and 7.2 kW on the R-EV, and both are single phase figures so a British house delivers them in full. A full charge on the electric car takes about five hours.

What is the R-EV?

A range extender with a 17.8 kWh battery and an 830 cc rotary engine acting purely as a generator. It gives 53 miles of electric range and over 400 miles in total, and it was sold in the UK from 2023.

Where is the charge socket?

Offside rear quarter on both versions. Mazda own rescue manual confirms the right-hand side in so many words.

Can it rapid charge?

Yes. 50 kW on the electric car for eighty per cent in 36 minutes, and 36 kW on the R-EV for twenty to eighty per cent in 25 minutes.