Fiat defines the roadmap for its huge all-electric transition

Fiat plans to go to Tout-EV, transition from the manufacturer’s range of 2025 from internal combustion. The announcement follows Fiat’s decision to make an electric version of the new 500, its emblematic city car.

Announced last March, the last Fiat 500 was a sudden reversal of the previous 500th of the manufacturer. Then, the electric version of the car was barely popular among Fiat’s finance officials: then-Managing Director Sergio Marchionne informed memorablely that he hoped the EV would not be purchased because it cost $ 14,000. Whenever you have been sold.

This time, however, the numbers seem to be on a firmer floor. The new 500 – which is not available in North America – A up to 199 kilometers of range on the WLTP cycle, 85 kW of rapid DC charging support and a $ 29,000 ($ 40,000 sticker price ) before any incentive. There is no fuel or diesel version either.

“It is our duty to bring the electric cars market that only cost those with an internal combustion engine, as soon as possible, in accordance with the costs of lowering batteries,” said Olivier François, CEO of Fiat and Sellantiris CMO, said today. “We explore the territory of sustainable mobility for all: it is our biggest project. Between 2025 and 2030, our product line will gradually become electricity only. It will be a radical change for Fiat. “

Certainly, the new Electric 500 is a much more convincing perspective like an eV than the former 500th ever. The interrupted model – from the US range in 2019 – boasted only a range of 87 miles on a full load, for example.

Cars, however, are only half of the battle. The CFA responded in January that it would renovate a plant in Poland, for example, where it would focus on electrical models through the Jeep, Fiat and Alfa Romeo brands. This will help meet the Jeep ambitions to expand its hybrid plug-in models like the new 4xe Wrangler; Alfa Romeo, meanwhile, works on a completely electric SUV she said she hopes to reveal in 2022.

Now a part of Stellantis, the FAFF FCA and the Peugeot Group, Fiat is not the only company looking for electric makeover this decade. Jaguar announced earlier this year that it was also going to go all from 2025. GM and Ford, as for this, will take a little more time to reach this stage, but has defined ambitious goals to the carbon neutral, among others. .