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Fiat Grande Panda to land on European market as ~$27,000 EV

Fiat has unleashed the Grande Panda as its latest compact SUV for select European countries. It is to be available in a markedly affordable all-electric form, so as to compete with a growing number of rivals such as the eerily similar Citroën e-C3. Then again, it will start even cheaper as a hybrid EV.

The Grande Panda is now Fiat's latest EV - one that will, furthermore, join the legion of increasingly accessible cars of that type with a starting price of just €25,000 (~$27,240).

For that, the buyer gets a 5-door car with a design suspiciously like that of the pre-existing Citroën e-C3, except that the Fiat version will have more modern touches such as a dot-matrix strip of LEDs for headlights (albeit without the Cybertruck vibes of some prototypes).

That should not really come as a surprise, as both vehicles are based on the Smart Car platform from Stellantis, now a parent company to both Fiat and Citroën.

Accordingly, the Grande Panda will have options with a 44 kilowatt-hour (kWh) LFP battery and 83kW motor, rated to go for up to 199 miles per charge, which it may or may not do at up to 100kW.

Then again, it is also now slated to gain a hybrid sibling in the future, confirmed by Fiat's CEO Olivier Francois to start at just €19,000 (~$20,700). However, the Grande Panda's availability is projected to be limited to countries such as France, Italy and the UK at the time of writing.

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