New SEAT urban EV to arrive by 2025

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

Talks on irrespective of whether the new auto will be branded a SEAT or a Cupra are ongoing, with enterprise President Wayne Griffiths outlining at the brand’s annual success conference  that a choice on this experienced not but been produced. 

Griffiths did verify that the new compact EV “will be the initially auto for an entry platform for distinctive models of the VW Team.”

This very likely refers to the MEB Entry architecture, an electrical-only platform for extra compact automobiles that will sit beneath the MEB-centered Cupra Born and Tavascan products in the line-up.

Inspite of the admission that the new vehicle will be an EV concentrated on urban mobility, it could not be a standard supermini. Griffiths highlighted that the auto is a very similar measurement to the SEAT Arona compact SUV, at all-around 4 metres lengthy.

SEAT’s teaser picture (underneath) unveiled at the convention also demonstrates a extra SUV-like profile, with a slightly raised trip peak, very likely to accommodate the mounting of a battery in the car’s floor, as with the much larger MEB platform. Our special picture (above) imagines this teaser sketch as a smaller SEAT electrical SUV, a minimal smaller than the latest crop of products in this segment, specifically the Vauxhall Mokka-e and the Peugeot e-2008.

The new urban EV will be created as portion of SEAT’s strategy to renovate its Martorell manufacturing facility exterior Barcelona, with the goal of making 500,000 electrical vehicles for every 12 months.

SEAT’s formidable designs also include things like foremost EV growth for the full VW Team, and the new urban EV will be a important portion of this, due to the fact it has the likely to produce huge gross sales volumes – and it requires to.

The difficult portion for automotive models is that EVs expense a large amount to build and make, but smaller automobiles have to be offered for comparatively minimal prices, so it can get a lengthy time to earn back again the cash used on growth.

Coupled to slower gross sales for SEAT, in particular previous 12 months because of to the Covid-19 pandemic, the company’s future could trip on this new child EV. It is not identified but when the Spanish organisation will make a choice on irrespective of whether to badge its new urban electrical auto a SEAT or a Cupra, but provided the supposed entry price tag place of all-around £17,000 it’ll extra than very likely be a SEAT, as this model is pitched as the extra very affordable featuring in comparison with its sportier, extra high quality off-shoot, Cupra.

SEAT has as soon as again been put in charge of foremost the growth of a compact EV for the Volkswagen Team, with a VW ID.1 smaller EV scheduled to make its debut in 2025 also.

SEAT and Cupra President Wayne Griffiths reported: “We want to manufacture electrical automobiles in Spain starting up in 2025. Our ambition is to make extra than 500,000 urban electrical automobiles for every 12 months in Martorell also for the Volkswagen Team, but we want a very clear determination by the European Commission.

“We’ve drawn up the strategy, we have the correct partners on-board and we’re commonly ready to invest. This challenge is supposed to turn out to be the driver for the transformation of the Spanish automotive industry. The aid of the Spanish Govt and the EU Commission for this cross-sectorial and country-broad strategy is essential for the Volkswagen Team to be ready to get the last choice on its execution.”

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