Electric Citroën ë-C3 will cost less than €25,000

The Citroën C3, like its larger brother with Aircross addition and the Opel Crossland within the Stellantis family, is not only a somewhat older model, but also a car based on older technology. After all, under the skin you will still find technology from the previous generation Peugeot 2008. Although the C3 has been around for quite a few years, Citroën is still doing pretty good business with it. Citroen CEO Thierry Koskas tells Automotive News that the hatchback in Europe accounts for 30 percent of its sales. That is not the only interesting thing Koskas has to say about the C3.

We wrote earlier that Citroën is pulling the curtain on a new C3 this year. About that model, Koskas says that he will make his public debut in the fall. More interestingly, that will be a fully electric car that Citroën positions as a European answer to low-cost Chinese EVs. The Citroën ë-C3 (that’s how it will be called) would get a bare European price of less than €25,000. According to Koskas, it will be a compact hatchback with the necessary cross and SUV elements.

This somewhat raises the suspicion that the Citroën ë-C3 will be a model in the style of the C3 and its electric derivative, which Citroën sells in India, among others. Will that model come to Europe? In theory that could be, although it would be a version adapted for the European market. The new ë-C3 will soon be produced in Europe and not in India. It is more likely that Citroën will develop a different model for the European market, partly because that ‘exotic C3’ is drawn according to a design language that you have already known from the brand. In short: we do not yet know how the ë-C3 will dry up for Europe. But that it will be considerably cheaper than the electric Peugeot e-208 and Opel Corsa Electric is certain in advance.