“Pragmatic” choice. The decision does not change the goal by 2030 of selling only battery-powered models in Europe, but it was taken out of “pragmatism”: Laforge explained that the expansion of the offer of petrol engines “protects” dealers grappling with a declining sales and customers needing maintenance services in other countries than those of origin. Furthermore, Jeep opened order collection in Germany and France as early as June, after discovering the existence of intermediaries offering petrol versions of the Avenger with a steep price increase. To discourage cross-border sales, the small SUV will be offered at the same price (net of local taxes) and only with the Altitude trim level and the 1.2-litre engine. In any case, according to Laforge, only “limited batches of the petrol Avenger” will be offered in the three markets, also because the forecast is to sell “a few thousand units throughout the year”. In any case, the parable of the petrol-driven Avenger emerges at a delicate moment for the electric market, so much so that it represents a signal: precisely in Germany, various manufacturers (primarily Volkswagen) are experiencing a sharp drop in the demand for cars drums.