Dacia will introduce an all-wheel-drive model of the Duster with an electrified again axle by the top of this 12 months.
Talking at Dacia’s press convention on the 2025 Automobile of the 12 months remaining, the place the Duster is shortlisted for the award, firm CEO Denis Le Vot confirmed a brand new technological resolution for the agency’s all-wheel-drive mannequin.
Le Vot mentioned: “By the top of 2025, we’ll introduce a brand new hybrid resolution for our 4×4 model.
“We are going to electrify the rear axle with an e-motor on it. The automobile will be hybrid and computerized and there shall be an LPG model. We are going to make it accessible at an inexpensive value, as is the Dacia manner.”
This model of the Duster will high a spread that contains, from launch, a 99bhp 1.0-litre bi-fuel three-cylinder engine, a 128bhp 1.2-litre delicate hybrid and the top-spec 138bhp 1.6-litre full hybrid from the Jogger.
Costs at the moment high out at simply north of £26,000, so the brand new range-topping 4×4 hybrid is predicted to nudge that to nearer £30,000.
It’s extremely doubtless that the powertrain will make its manner into the marginally bigger Bigster, which is all however technically equivalent to the Duster. Different vehicles that additionally share the CMF-B platform – together with the Dacia Jogger, Nissan Juke, Nissan Qashqai and Renault Captur – could possibly be in line for a similar therapy.
Le Vot added that an electrical Duster “would are available in time” however the first electrical Dacia would be the Sandero, in 2027. The Duster must wait till its subsequent technology to obtain an electrical powertrain and that is prone to be in 2030/31.
Le Vot additionally confirmed that the brand new Duster was, on the finish of November, the primary SUV for retail gross sales in Europe throughout all different-sized SUVs.
