Citroen will release an all-electric car in 2020 meant to play a significant function in the brand’s electrification strategy, which will see every Citroen on sale provided with an electrified powertrain by 2025.
It won’t be the brand’s very first EV, though, as well as instead will develop on past efforts including the E-Mehari, C-Zero as well as electric Berlingo variants. However, it will be released in the exact same year as Citroen’s very first plug-in electric hybrid, which will be an all-wheel-drive, 300bhp version of the new C5 Aircross SUV. By 2023 80 per cent of the Citroen variety will be electrified, with every one of the brand’s new cars and trucks from the C5 Aircross onwards showing up with electrified options.
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Like sibling brand DS – which will expose an all-electric little SUV at the Paris motor Show, likely called the DS 3 Crossback – the new EV will sit on a pure-electric version of the PSA Group’s new CMA platform, which is understood as e-CMP.
It’s currently unknown just what section the car will sit in. However, CMP is meant for little to compact cars and trucks as well as able to support city cars, superminis, little saloons as well as little SUVs.
It won’t be a bespoke EV, however a completely electric version of a core design offered with traditional powertrains. speaking to car reveal at the European expose of the new C5 Aircross, Citroen CEO Linda Jackson confirmed; “When it comes there will be an electric version, however there will likewise be an equivalent petrol version as well as diesel version.”
PSA declares that e-CMP platform cars will boast all-electric varieties of as much as 280 miles on a single charge, as well as has previously verified that four all-electric designs utilizing the design will be introduced by 2021. It’s likely that these four EVs will be split across the group’s four brands, with electric versions of the next Peugeot 208 as well as Vauxhall/Opel Corsa joining the Citroen EV as well as the DS 3 Crossback EV.
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