Skoda plans to launch three electric cars by 2026

Skoda, a company specialized in the automotive industry, published a press release in which it announced its intention to offer three electric cars by 2026, as it announced its next plan, which aims to provide its group with an electric character so that it can keep pace with the requirements of the global market. Electric cars to save fuel and also to reduce waste and exhaust polluting the environment.

 Skoda plans to launch three electric cars by 2026

• The international company Skoda is considered one of the oldest car manufacturing companies, as Vaclav Laurin and Vaclav Klement founded this company in 1895 until it manufactured its first car specifically in 1905 in Mladá Boleslav, where its main factory is.
• The company then manufactured a lot of cars, one after the other, until it reached millions of cars, and soon its reputation rose and its position rose among the competing companies until it reached the global commercial markets.
• Today, it comes with a new and modern scheme that aims to offer three electric cars by 2023 , one of which will be a hatchback, while the second will be a small crossover, and the last will be a large crossover.
• Klaus Zelmer, CEO of Skoda International, stated that the company will not focus too much on technology, in order to avoid many of the mistakes and problems that occurred with Volkswagen due to the large number of somewhat complex technological technologies, and for this reason the company decided to become more conservative so as not to Their clients get bored or feel overwhelmed.
• Skoda will not abandon combustion engines
• Klaus Zelmer stated that despite relying on electric cars in the coming period, Skoda does not intend to abandon its group that operates through the ICE system, as only the customer will decide the way the commercial car market develops, and there are also many expectations indicating that with By the end of the current decade, 70% of the cars offered will be fully electric, and by the year 2035, the company will only sell electric cars, and this is what the company plans to implement later.
• The Coupé Egnac RS IV is the first electric car in the Škoda RS range with sporty features. This fully electric car is equipped with two electric motors working in tandem with a power of up to 295 horsepower, which work through an all-wheel drive system. The maximum speed of this car is estimated The car has a speed of 180 kilometers per hour, along with a range of more than 500 kilometers.

New Skoda electric cars

• The company stated that the three electric cars that it intends to launch by 2026, one of them will be a small crossover that the company had announced before, this car will be integrated with models from Seat as well as with Volkswagen.
• This small car will come based on the MEB platform, but in a simplified version of it called MEB LITE, as this car will come with a front-wheel drive system in its standard versions, in contrast to the cars based on the platform in its standard version.
• It is expected that the second car will be a fully electric car alternative to the Octavia that is currently available, and there are several rumors, including that this new car will bypass the MEB platform, provided that it is built on that platform that Volkswagen relies on, but through a new EV architecture that has been allocated to this car and is called It’s called SSP.
• This platform is very important as Volkswagen looks at it as a new architecture that is expected to be an important alternative to the current platforms on which internal combustion cars depend, and it will replace it and some other platforms such as MEB and PPE, which are found in the new Porsche Macan EV and Audi E. Tron Q6, this may in turn provide a single solution for a large number of vehicle styles.

Skoda electric cars prices

Skoda has initially announced the prices of its electric cars, as it stated the initial price of the Fabia-like hatchback based on the MEB platform, which it intends not to exceed $ 26,311, and this means that it will be $ 10,524 cheaper than the Mini Cooper SE, as well as Zoe’s car.