MUNICH — Cupra will value its full-electric small automobile at “about 25,000 euros” ($29,500), when it launches in 2025.
The price shall be 5,000 euros greater than the 20,000 euros beginning value for Volkswagen model’s small EV, additionally due in 2025.
Each automobiles shall be primarily based on a shortened model of VW Group’s MEB electrical architectures that’s used for compact EVs together with the Cupra Born, VW ID3 and ID4, Skoda Enyaq and Audi This fall e-tron.
“The Cupra model of the automobile shall be priced greater as a result of we wish it to be positioned between the mass and the premium segments,” Cupra CEO Wayne Griffiths mentioned on the Munich auto present earlier this month.
Cupra previewed its small EV in Munich with the UrbanRebel idea, which had a motorsports-inspired design. On the Munich present, VW model unveiled the ID Life idea that shall be launched as its entry-level battery-powered automobile.
Skoda can also be anticipated to get a model referred to as the Elroq however Cupra’s guardian model, Seat, isn’t planning a model.
The manufacturing Cupra small EV will preserve the identical design language of the UrbanRebel, Griffiths mentioned.
“We are going to do a really provocative design. The collection automobile could be very close to to the UrbanRebel. You are taking the fin off the again and the spoiler off the entrance, and you then get very very near what we wish to do with the automobile we wish to launch in 2025,” he mentioned.
The rationale the design shall be so distinctive is that it will likely be one of many key components to distinguish the mannequin from different electrical efficiency automobiles which all have related efficiency, Griffiths mentioned.
The Cupra Born, the model’s first full-electric automobile, will arrive in showrooms in November.
Griffiths mentioned Cupra had confronted a problem in making the Born’s dealing with and suspension really feel sporty because of the weight of the batteries within the automobile’s platform.
The UrbanRebel-based small EV could be the subsequent step, he mentioned, and its size and weight would make the automobile very sporty.
The automobile shall be powered by a 170-kilowatt electrical motor and a battery as much as 55 kW. This can enable for a 400 km (248 mile) vary on a single cost.
The EV will take 6.9 seconds to speed up from 0 to 100 kph (0 to 62 mph), greater than double than the time of three.2 seconds claimed for the UrbanRebel.
VW Group plans to construct small EVs for the completely different manufacturers in Spain, with capability for as much as 500,000 models a yr.
Seat’s manufacturing unit in Martorell, close to Barcelona, is because of be transformed into an EV manufacturing hub. VW model’s manufacturing unit in Pamplona, Spain, is also concerned within the manufacturing of EVs, Griffiths mentioned.
Spain introduced in July a plan to take a position 4.3 billion euros to help the manufacturing of electrical autos and batteries within the nation.
Seat intends to use for the funds, which will even use cash from the EU.
“The Spanish authorities helps us and it’s presently discussing with the EU. If we wish to launch the automobile in 2025 we’d like selections to be taken by the tip of this yr,” Griffiths mentioned.