Electric successor Citroën C5 Aircross in production in 2025

The current Citroën C5 Aircross will most likely only be available in electrified form from soon. The new Hybrid 136 powertrain is expected to replace the 1.2 PureTech three-cylinder and the 180 and 225 hp plug-in hybrid powertrains will continue to be available. With this, the current C5 Aircross is already warming up the buyer public, because with its successor – which will be on the market in 2025, it now appears – it is purely electricity that is the clock.

STLA platform

We learn this from reports from Stellantis, which show that the group is starting to convert its factory in Rennes – where it now also builds the C5 Aircross. Stellantis reserves 160 million euros to be able to set up and start the production line of the next C5 Aircross in two years. Not only that, because the factory will also produce battery packs. Part of that will find its destination in Stellantis’ new STLA Medium platform, because that is the architecture on which the new C5 Aircross will stand. We do not know that architecture yet, but it will also form the basis for the electric successors of, among others, the current Opel Grandland and Peugeot 3008.

From 2025, a roof full of 90,000 m² of solar panels must ensure that 30 percent of the battery packs and EVs built in the factory are built with sustainable energy. We expect that the next Peugeot 5008 will also roll out of that factory, because the current one is also being built there. For cars on the STLA Large platform, of which we haven’t seen any yet, Stellantis is already converting its factory in southern Italy.

The four electric car platforms that Stellantis will use in the near future.