The European car industry wants to give a definitive boost to the electric vehicle and to do so it is preparing a series of innovations for next year. After a bad 2024 in which registrations of this type of car decreased by 5.9% in the European Union, and a 2025 in which they increased by 24.1% between January and September – these are the latest data provided by ACEA, the European automotive industry association, which will publish October data next week – the sector will take a further step forward with several electric models. produced in Europe which will start from lower prices or around 25 thousand euros without counting public aid.
Among the new features arriving next year, the four models that will roll off the assembly lines of the Volkswagen group’s Spanish factories in Landaben (Navarre) and Martorell (Barcelona) stand out. In the first, the Skoda Epiq will be made, a small SUV which will be the first model of the Czech brand to be produced in Spain, and the Volkswagen ID. Through; while the Volkswagen ID will be released from the Catalan plant. Polo and the Cupra Raval. The latter will have to be seen if it will finally be under 25,000 euros or slightly above, since even if it will be the entry model of the Cupra range, it is a brand that is placed slightly above the generalists in terms of price. The Raval will be the first of these models to hit the market, with production expected to begin in the first quarter of 2026.
These four “Spanish” models, which will have a range of between 425 and 450 kilometers in their top versions, will be the first cars that the Volkswagen group will offer below or around 25,000 euros, a market segment that it reaches later than other competitors, not only Chinese, but also European ones such as Renault or Stellantis. The French company will launch the Twingo, a model already presented but which will begin to be delivered to customers at the beginning of the year. This model, produced in the Novo Mesto plant (Slovenia), represents a milestone for the turbot brand – which comes from the success with the Renault 5, an electric car that has a version under 25,000 euros, although this does not offer fast charging – since it was developed and launched on the market in just two years, a pace comparable to that of Chinese car brands.
Even faster will be the development of the new Dacia Spring (brand belonging to the Renault group), for which it is not yet known whether it will continue with that name or change its name. This will no longer be produced in China and will be assembled in Europe, in the same plant as the Twingo. The model will be officially presented next year and should reach markets such as France at the end of 2026, although in Spain we will have to wait until the beginning of 2027. It will be a model developed in a record time of 16 months and will have a starting price of less than 18,000 euros without counting public aid. As for subsidies, we will have to see how they will be managed after the death of the current Move and the launch by the Executive of a new aid program in which the autonomous communities will have no interference, as EL PAÍS announced this month.
Among the non-European brands, the arrival of the Kia EV2 stands out, which will be the cheapest model, at least for the moment, of the South Korean brand. This car, which will arrive at the end of the first quarter, will expand the electric offer of the company, which this year has had enormous success with the EV3, the third best-selling electric model in Spain in the first ten months of 2025, behind only the Tesla Model 3 and the Model Y, with almost 4,800 registrations for the Korean car. The EV3 is currently offered on the manufacturer’s website at 22,160 euros including discounts and 7,000 euros of help from the Removal Plan for the scrapping of an old vehicle. The price of the EV2, which will be produced at the Žilina plant (Slovakia), should be around 25,000 euros, perhaps a little more, not counting public aid, although the price has not yet been announced.
Other groups such as Stellantis have already continued their affordable electric offensive, with models such as the electric Citroën C3 or the Fiat Grande Panda, both below the price range mentioned above and which are already available on the market. Leapmotor, the Chinese brand of the consortium, recently launched the B10 in Europe, a vehicle that does not have the characteristic of costing less than 25,000 euros, but which is not far away, and which will presumably be produced in the plant in Figueruelas, Zaragoza, starting next year. Furthermore, Leapmotor will launch the B05 at the end of next year, the price of which is not known and which could also be produced in the Aragonese plant. All these innovations aim to attract more customers towards mobility which in Spain has seen an acceleration in the current year, with an 89.7% increase in registrations between January and October, up to 81,129 units, according to data from the national association of the automotive industry, Anfac.
