Skoda is to steer clear of smaller electrified models for the foreseeable future, after a senior executive confirmed the axing of the Citigo-e iV and insisted there are no current plans for plug-in versions of any model smaller than the Octavia.
The Czech brand has just launched its first bespoke electric vehicle, the Enyaq, based on the VW Group’s MEB platform. but last year it also revealed the Citigo-e iV, an all-electric conversion of its regular city car, and sister car to the VW e-up! and SEAT Mii Electric. but while those models remain on sale, Skoda’s version of the automobile has now been discontinued after all of the manufacturer’s allotment of cars was snapped up – including around 400 examples in the UK.
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Skoda’s sales & marketing boss Alain Favey said, “The Citigo is as good as gone. We’ve sold all that we had to sell, and there will not be a replacement. We have no objective to have a automobile of this size in the future.”
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Favey believes that the impending arrival of plug-in hybrid versions of the Octavia will allow Skoda to be better represented in markets with faster developing sales of electrified vehicles, or incentives to encourage demand. but despite several of Skoda’s essential rivals providing pure-electric entries in the supermini class, Favey said that the firm would find it hard to justify even a plug-in hybrid version of the larger Scala family hatchback, which sits between the Fabia and Octavia in Skoda’s line-up.