Cupra to launch a second EV this year
Incoming Spanish brand Cupra will unveil its second all-electric model at Munich motor show in SeptemberThe rise of Cupra continues with the Volkswagen Group subsidiary set to debut its second electric vehicle (EV) at the Munich motor show in September.
While details are scarce, sources at Cupra have confirmed the Spanish brand’s second EV will be a compact SUV and is due in production some time in 2022.
The unnamed electric SUV will follow on from the Cupra Born electric hatch (pictured), which debuted as the el-Born concept car in 2019.
Like the Cupra Born, the VW sister brand’s second dedicated EV is expected to be based on the Volkswagen Group’s MEB EV platform.
“We will show a small electric car in Munich,” the source admitted to carsales.
“It will be in an SUV style, and it will be our design and very much a Cupra,” he added.
The Cupra Born is a mildly massaged version of the Volkswagen ID.3, with which it shares its doors, roof, hatch and rear-quarter panels, and is built alongside the VW’s smallest electric car in Zwickau, Germany.
The 4.32-metre Cupra Born can develop up to 170kW of power (though the 110kW base version is expected to be the most popular) and can hit 100km/h in 6.6 seconds.
In Europe, it is offered with battery sizes between 44kWh and 77kWh, delivering ranges between 349km and 548km.
The new Cupra electric SUV’s most logical development platform is the Volkswagen ID.4, which is also a compact SUV.
So far no Cupra EVs have been confirmed for Australia, but plug-in hybrid versions of the Cupra Leon, Ateca and Formentor have – alongside hotter 221kW turbo-petrol versions – by mid-2022.
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