November 4, 2024

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New SEAT urban EV to arrive by 2025

SEAT is organizing to launch an all-electric “urban EV” in 2025, with a price tag between £17,000 and £22,000.

Talks on regardless of whether the new auto will be branded a SEAT or a Cupra are ongoing, with company President Wayne Griffiths outlining at the brand’s annual benefits conference  that a determination on this experienced not yet been produced. 

Griffiths did verify that the new compact EV “will be the 1st auto for an entry platform for various makes of the VW Group.”

This probable refers to the MEB Entry architecture, an electric-only platform for much more compact cars that will sit beneath the MEB-centered Cupra Born and Tavascan models in the line-up.

Despite the admission that the new car will be an EV focused on urban mobility, it could not be a regular supermini. Griffiths highlighted that the auto is a identical size to the SEAT Arona compact SUV, at around 4 metres lengthy.

SEAT’s teaser image (below) discovered at the convention also shows a much more SUV-like profile, with a a bit lifted journey top, probable to accommodate the mounting of a battery in the car’s ground, as with the larger sized MEB platform. Our exclusive image (over) imagines this teaser sketch as a little SEAT electric SUV, a minor smaller sized than the present crop of models in this segment, namely the Vauxhall Mokka-e and the Peugeot e-2008.

The new urban EV will be developed as section of SEAT’s system to remodel its Martorell production facility outside the house Barcelona, with the purpose of creating five hundred,000 electric automobiles for every year.

SEAT urban EV

SEAT’s formidable plans also include major EV progress for the total VW Group, and the new urban EV will be a key section of this, due to the fact it has the probable to crank out monumental sales volumes – and it demands to.

The tricky section for automotive makes is that EVs value a large amount to produce and construct, but little cars have to be marketed for comparatively low charges, so it can just take a lengthy time to earn back the funds spent on progress.

Coupled to slower sales for SEAT, particularly very last year owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, the company’s upcoming could journey on this new child EV. It is not known yet when the Spanish organisation will make a determination on regardless of whether to badge its new urban electric auto a SEAT or a Cupra, but offered the meant entry price position of around £17,000 it’ll much more than probable be a SEAT, as this brand name is pitched as the much more affordable supplying in comparison with its sportier, much more high quality off-shoot, Cupra.

SEAT has at the time again been place in charge of major the progress of a compact EV for the Volkswagen Group, with a VW ID.1 little EV scheduled to make its debut in 2025 also.

SEAT and Cupra President Wayne Griffiths said: “We want to manufacture electric cars in Spain commencing in 2025. Our ambition is to produce much more than five hundred,000 urban electric cars for every year in Martorell also for the Volkswagen Group, but we require a distinct motivation by the European Fee.

“We’ve drawn up the system, we have the appropriate partners on-board and we’re generally completely ready to invest. This venture is meant to come to be the driver for the transformation of the Spanish automotive marketplace. The assistance of the Spanish Government and the EU Fee for this cross-sectorial and nation-large system is essential for the Volkswagen Group to be able to just take the closing determination on its execution.”

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