Citroen C3 Electric, now unveiled

volkman10 · 17th January 2023, 17:51

Media drive starts, reviews will drop Jan 21, 12pm.

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Magicallyme · 18th January 2023, 03:21

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Originally Posted by aim120

42kw/57ps is mostly peak power and not continous power, mostly the latter due to low top speed, poor acceleration and natural cooled battery. Continous power is usually about half the peak power about 25kw or less, so the motor will pull less then 1C of power from the battery which is not enough to raise the battery temperature above 60c. Usually the safe air cooled temperature of the battery is 60c.

I guess since its a LFP battery they are not bothered much about cooling. We have two wheelers like Ather and Ola which use NMC cells and have a peak motor power more then 1C power of battery.

I absolutely love your analysis. This probably explains why Citeron has been testing the eC3 so munch, their test mules were all over India and spotted so often. The air cooled battery will considerably reduce the cost and weight of the car, this should have higher real world efficiency and range than Tiago, Tigor and Nexon Prime.

If Citron prices this car around 10 lakhs and offers good battery warranty (specifying allowable degradation %) then this is a much better engineered product than all of the Tata EVs released so far. Case in point, the short and concealed high voltage wiring which reduces cost and improves safety!

Magicallyme · 18th January 2023, 03:46

A request to the reviewers, please ask if Citroen can share more details on the battery thermal management system and warranty. e.g. if AC air is used in cooling the battery.

volkman10 · 18th January 2023, 10:55

More pics from the Citroën ë3 media drive:

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volkman10 · 19th January 2023, 19:19

Snippets from the media drive:

Citroen plans on exporting it to other markets in the near future, although we doubt that such a model would arrive in Europe which will soon get a new generation of the C3 and likely its own eC3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHhP...ro%C3%ABnIndia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcty...ro%C3%ABnIndia

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