Skoda is putting the finishing touches to its new fully electric SUV, reportedly coming to markets next year. And it’s doing so on Irish roads.

The VW Group brand has been testing camouflaged versions of the new car in drives through the Irish countryside around Castle Durrow, Co Laois this week. And the Irish link doesn’t end there. Skoda claims the car’s new name, Enyaq, is derived form the Irish name Enya.

The Skoda Enyaq is the Czech brand’s first series-production vehicle based on the Volkswagen Group’s Modular Electrification Toolkit (MEB), which is the underpinning for VW’s new ID.3 all-electric hatchback car.

In all, 10 electric models will be launched by the end of 2022 by the VW Group, including a VW variant of this new Skoda SUV.

By 2025, Skoda expects all-electric vehicles and models with plug-in hybrid drives to account for 25 per cent of sales. By 2021, the car manufacturer will have invested €2 billion in the development of electric models and a holistic, interconnected ecosystem for modern and environmentally friendly mobility solutions.