Volkswagen Group’s Skoda model will launch three new electrical fashions by 2026, 4 years sooner than initially deliberate, its boss informed Handelsblatt enterprise each day.

The Czech carmaker will spend the overwhelming majority of its deliberate funding on these new fashions, Skoda CEO Klaus Zellmer added.

This may carry the proportion of electrical fashions in its vary to 70 p.c by 2030.

“We’re coming with three extra electrical fashions by 2026, with extra to return. That is sooner than we had beforehand introduced,” Zellmer informed Handelsblatt in a interview printed on Wednesday.

“We’re investing 5.6 billion euros by 2026 in electromobility. That’s round 80 p.c greater than we deliberate a 12 months in the past,” Zellmer added.

The Enyaq is at present Skoda’s solely full-electric mannequin. It makes use of the identical VW Group MEB all-electric platform that underpins the VW ID4 SUV.

In August, Skoda previewed the Imaginative and prescient 7S idea for seven-seat crossover that may spherical off the highest finish of its product portfolio.

Zellmer stated in August that Skoda’s different two new battery-electric fashions can be a small automotive and a compact crossover.

The small EV can be priced underneath 25,000 euros and is anticipated to be referred to as the Elroq. It is going to be inbuilt Spain together with the VW ID2 and the Cupra Raval.