Fiat today offers the only electric car, the 500e minihatch. In nine years, however, its offer is to include only electric cars.
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Electrification is a trend today, and so many automakers have announced their electrical plans for the coming years in recent months. While some brands “only” are planning to broaden the range of their electric cars, others are bolder and intend to limit their portfolio exclusively to electric cars. Fiat is also one of them.
“Exploring sustainable mobility for all is our biggest project. In the years 2025 to 2030, our model offer will gradually become purely electric. It will be a fundamental change for Fiat, ” announced the head of the Fiat brand Olivier François. The aim is to bring to market electric cars that will not be more expensive than cars with internal combustion engines, as battery prices fall.
However, François no longer specified whether the plan concerned only European markets or even non-European ones. While electromobility is a rapidly growing trend in Europe, for example in South America, which is an important market for Fiat, the electrical infrastructure is not yet so developed and electric cars are only a marginal issue there.
In the same way, we still have to wait for the electric Fiat to expand. Today, the brand sells the only personal electric car, the new generation 500e. There was even talk of Fiat falling asleep to the onset of electromobility. For years, he sold only in the emergency created 500e primarily intended for the USA, which had a low range due to the compromise solution. After all, access to electric car technology was one of the reasons for this year’s merger of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles with the PSA Group.
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After last year’s arrival of the 500e, a successor is expected anyway a serial version of the Centoventi concept in 2022, which is to be an affordable Panda-style toy car. Electric propulsion is also taken into account in the city SUV, which Fiat will produce in its next years in its Polish factory Tychy. This is supposed to be a project already using architecture from the PSA workshop.
In any case, the Italian manufacturer states that it wants to address other issues related to electromobility, such as access to charging stations. Fiat intends to solve, for example, chargers in the centers of historic cities, which is still a problem not only in its home Italy.
It is in connection with this strategy that Fiat will rebuild the legendary test track on the roof of the famous Lingotto plant in Turin. The place is to become a garden, the largest of its kind. There are to be over 28,000 plants.
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Fiat has been several brands in recent months, announcing that it intends to sell exclusively electric cars in the future. It was 2030 that Volvo or Bentley also set the deadline for limiting the offer to such cars. It Jaguar wants to become a purely electric brand in 2025, although it is not yet clear whether this plan will also apply to sports cars.
Until the end of the decade, Ford’s European division intends to sell only electric cars in the field of passenger cars in Europe. The mini will then reduce the supply of electric cars in Europe by 2030, in non – European markets does not have such a fixed deadline.
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