BETTER PARTSNew Citroën C4 will get electric version
During the salon of Paris, Citroën is against our British colleagues from AutoExpress, a booklet opened on the new generation of the C4.
In January of this year, it was announced that Citroen's power cord from the C4 had drawn; the hatchback, which in 2008 was placed on the market and that is Citroen, in fact, showed up by the facelifted version of the C4 Cactus. Citroën CEO Linda Jackson was previously on the Season already confirming that the brand in the long term really with a new C4, a car that just has a 'regular' hatchback. We now know more about the technique of that newcomer.
During the Parisian salon, our British colleagues from AutoExpress talked with Gilles Le Borgne, vice-chairman of Citroën. That interesting information. Thus, the new C4 is not on the EMP2 platform, Groupe PSA, the basis that we know of cars like the 308, 508, 3008, 5008, Citroen C5 Aircross and Opel Grandland X and that the French group for all models above the B-segment has planned. The new C4 is, according to Le Borgne namely placed on a stretched version of it, together with Dongfeng developed CMP platform, a basis for the following Peugeot 208 is planned and that the new DS 3 Crossback using.
In the form of the e-CMP-platform Groupe PSA and Dongfeng also developed a platform specifically designed for the compact electric cars is intended. The new C4 gets a fully electric version that is. That platform must be able to provide a battery pack with a capacity of up to 60 kWh. In addition to a electric C4 come according to Le Borgne the regular versions with petrol and diesel engines available.
The C4 is not the only newcomer that Citroen in the barrel. The French come about by 2020 with a new C5 on the limiter. Expected, the new C4 also not for 2020 on the market.