All-new Citroen C3 Aircross to arrive with electric power in 2025

The Citroën C3 Aircross is being prepared to participate its 2nd generation, with styling and operation heavy influenced by the Citroën Ami quadricycle and Citroën Oli conception car.

Seen by our spy photographers tackling icy conditions connected European roads, the compact crossover is presently successful an aboriginal signifier of development.

As good arsenic assorted ICE options, the C3 Aircross volition besides connection an electrical powertrain for the archetypal time, Citroën branding enforcement Laurent Barria confirmed to Autocar previously. 

He added that the car volition absorption connected “accessibility to electrical mobility”, leaning connected plan cues and sustainability credentials exhibited by the caller Oli conception car.

Barria added that it volition besides beryllium the archetypal Citroën to deterioration the brand’s caller logo, revealed astatine the extremity of 2022, which means an authoritative unveiling is apt to instrumentality spot this year.

Design manager Pierre Leclercq has antecedently explained that the Ami and Oli “have to power [Citroën] accumulation cars”, hinting that the adjacent Citroën models volition get cardinal ideas from each to statesman the brand’s propulsion for sustainability and affordability.

He said “not one” thought from the Oli conception was being dismissed arsenic a imaginable campaigner for accumulation cars and that it was conscionable a substance of timing. 

When it arrives, the caller C3 Aircross volition apt beryllium connected the CMP platform, which already underpins Stellantis cars including the DS 3 and Vauxhall Corsa.

The electrical variant volition astir apt stock the aforesaid platform, making usage of the aforesaid 132bhp centrifugal and 50kWh artillery utilized successful the Peugeot e-2008 and Vauxhall Mokka Electric for a scope of astir 230 miles.

The larger Citroën e-C4 presently connected merchantability uses a 50kWh artillery (with a 45kWh usable capacity), giving an authoritative scope of 219 miles. 

Rapid-charging capabilities for the C3 Aircross EV volition besides beryllium critical, due to the fact that integrating the indispensable hardware for that “doesn’t measurement thing compared with a battery”, according to main enforcement Vincent Cobée.

While camouflage serves to distort its design, it is expected that the C3 Aircross’s plan is apt to get cues from the Ami and Oli, specified arsenic their shared beforehand and rear bumpers, albeit successful the subtler manner seen connected the Oli. 

It’s besides expected to transportation guardant the Oli’s utilitarian wide styling, with chunky tyres and an abundance of cladding to conscionable lawsuit demands.

What is disposable is that the caller C3 Aircross is somewhat larger than the existent model, with flush doorway handles disposable (likely successful bid to amended aerodynamic ratio and truthful range) and a boxier profile.

Moving to the front, a ample divided radiator grille is contiguous alongside production-specification headlights with an LED daytime moving portion that curves upwards and toward the windscreen overmuch more.

At the rear, a information of the lights are exposed to amusement a striped design, portion the boxy bodywork makes it look little similar a crossover. A plan of this benignant could mean much abstraction wrong for occupants and their luggage. 

Boot abstraction successful the existent C3 Aircross is mean for the class, astatine 410 litres with the seats up, compared with 434 litres for the Peugeot 2008 and 400 litres for the Skoda Kamiq. 

No details person emerged astir the caller car's interior yet, but a revised touchscreen infotainment strategy is expected to diagnostic with improved smartphone compatibility. 

The C3 Aircross volition usage much recycled materials, some wrong and out, than existent models to propulsion sustainability, though the summation is apt to beryllium limited. 

“Nobody buys a car due to the fact that it is sustainable,” said Cobée. 

Leclercq besides confirmed that these materials are much expensive.

While an electrical Citroën C3 was confirmed to beryllium successful improvement by branding enforcement Laurent Barria, the beingness of an exhaust and divided aerial intakes connected this C3 Aircross improvement car tells america that it's powered by a combustion engine. 

The existent C3 Aircross is powered by a 1.2-litre turbo petrol motor with 109bhp oregon 129bhp oregon a 1.5-litre turbo diesel motor besides producing 109bhp.

The upcoming car is expected to diagnostic a powertrain line-up akin to different Stellantis models, focusing connected its favoured turbo triple petrol engines. 

The next-generation C3 Aircross is expected to undercut existing electrical crossovers specified arsenic the Kia Niro EV, which starts from £36,245. However, it’s improbable to scope the €25,000 (£22,560) people acceptable retired by Hansen for the Oli, alternatively sitting astir the £30,000 mark.

On Citroën’s attack to electrification worldwide, Cobée said: “There's nary crushed wherefore Brazil would determination substantially towards electric, due to the fact that they person their ain solutions [high-ethanol fuels]. We're not present to determine which portion [does] what. So what volition hap for car makers similar america is fundamentally we volition person to regionalise our merchandise connection [and] our concern set-up.”

Additional reporting by Jonathan Bryce.