Unveiled a number of days in the past, the way forward for the Fiat Panda has already been written. The small Italian automobile will proceed to be supplied in an electrified model (delicate hybrid), produced on the Pomigliano d’Arco plant in Italy. The true revolution is predicted on 11 July, when the all-new Panda makes its debut as the electrical Panda. 

It’s a utterly new mannequin based mostly on a standard platform with different fashions from the Stellantis Group, however what’s going to the brand new electrical Fiat Panda appear like? As at all times, we attempt to discover out with our rendering.

A blast from the previous

The first images of the new Fiat Panda, nonetheless in idea kind, had been printed by the producer within the hours main as much as the 2024 Geneva Motor Present. They present a crossover-like form, with sq. traces and bigger dimensions than the present mannequin.

After all, it is laborious to say how lengthy the brand new Panda shall be, however to assist us, there’s the Citroën ë-C3, with which it’ll share the ‘Good Automobile’ platform. The French automobile is 4.01 metres lengthy, a measurement that could possibly be taken, centimetre for centimetre, from its Fiat counterpart.

Fiat Panda (2024) render by Motor1.com

Coming again to the design, it ought to recall partly the sq. shapes of the very first era, relationship from 1980 and designed by Giugiaro, whereas making a nod to the B-SUV phase, with out going overboard when it comes to floor clearance. Sure, identical to the brand new C3. 

From the idea introduced a number of days in the past, which you’ll see under, the design ought to take up the pixel entrance lights (just like these on the Hyundai Ioniq) and the Fiat brand with the sloping stems, taken straight from the Nineteen Nineties mannequin. 

Idea Fiat Panda electrical 

Fiat Panda electrical idea inside

So far as the inside of the electrical Fiat Panda is worried, the idea, known as ‘Mega Panda’, provides a number of hints. Essentially the most eccentric options have been eradicated and the main focus has been on the minimalist philosophy, as soon as once more taken from the unique Panda. The emblematic pocket in entrance of the entrance passenger shouldn’t be lacking, nor the technological side, represented by the double monitor on the dashboard.  

Electrical solely?

When it comes to powertrain, there is no such thing as a affirmation apart from that of battery energy. A minimum of at first. The electrical Fiat Panda will most certainly be based mostly on the Smart Car, a platform defined as multi-energy. Because of this, just like the CMP of the Fiat 600 and Jeep Avenger and the long run STLA from Stellantis, it is going to be capable of accommodate electrified or 100% electrical powertrains.

Nonetheless taking the instance of the brand new Citroën ë-C3, the brand new Panda could possibly be marketed with a single 113 PS electrical motor powered by a 44 kWh battery, for an estimated vary of 199 miles and recharging as much as 100 kW. A model with a much less highly effective battery, a spread of 124 miles and a lower cost is also launched sooner or later.

So far as costs are involved, it is nonetheless too early to say how a lot the brand new electrical Fiat Panda will price. The ë-C3 starts at €23,300 (UK pricing not obtainable but), with the much less highly effective model prone to are available in at beneath €20,000. Its Italian counterpart may convey the value listing down even additional.

Completely different twins

The ultimate query issues the identify. It was thought that, with the arrival of electrical automobiles, Fiat would rename the present Panda because the ‘Pandina’, thus retaining the historic identify of the electrical automobile. This isn’t the case: Pandina is in fact the name of a special version of town automobile, for which no identify change is deliberate. So what does that imply?

We predict we will rule out the identify ‘Mega-Panda’ used for the idea. “Pandona’ could possibly be an possibility, as may Panda L or XL, as the five hundred did with its spin-offs. In brief, barring any future teasers, we’ll have to attend till 11 July to search out out the identify of the electrical Panda, which can go on sale on the finish of the yr and be produced on the Vucic plant in Serbia, whereas the delicate hybrid, which has simply been restyled, will stay at Pomigliano d’Arco till a minimum of 2027.