The Citroën Berlingo, Peugeot Rifter and Opel Combo will be 100% electric in PC version
- The Citroën Berlingo, Peugeot Partner and Opel Combo, launched in 2018, totaled 280,000 units produced in 2021, mainly from Spain (Vigo) and Portugal (Mangualde). They are manufactured in utility vehicle (LUV) and passenger vehicle (PC) versions. Utility versions represent 80% of all these models, or 223,500 units in 2021, with other versions representing only 56,500 units last year.
- These models are equipped with petrol, diesel and 100% electric engines. In 2021, electric motors accounted for less than 5% of sales for all of these models.
- However, the Stellantis group has decided to only offer the 100% electric version on these models in the passenger car version from January 1, 2022, which seems quite audacious given the current demand. Are we going to witness – as with the Smarts which have gone from all-thermal to all-electric – a drop in sales of the Citroën Berlingo, Peugeot Partner and Opel Combo in passenger car version? It is quite possible, especially since the fall in sales of these models has already started between 2019 and 2021, when they were still available in three different engines. In the scenario envisaged by Inovev, it will no longer be 56,500 annual sales of these models, but probably less than 10,000, because the price is much higher in the electric version than in the thermal version. This kind of decision undoubtedly contributes to the decline of the automobile markets as a whole, the manufacturers now betting more on profitability (linked to the high prices of vehicles) and no longer on volumes.
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