Dacia will launch an all-wheel drive model of the Duster with an electrified rear axle by the top of this yr.

At Dacia’s press convention on the 2025 Automotive of the Yr closing, the place the Duster is shortlisted for the award, the corporate’s 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 are going to introduce a brand new hybrid resolution for our 4×4 model.

“We’ll electrify the rear axle with an e-motor on it. The automotive will probably be hybrid and automated and there will probably be an LPG model. We’ll make it accessible at an inexpensive value, identical to the Dacia method.”

This model of the Duster will high a spread which from launch features a 99bhp 1.0-litre bi-fuel three-cylinder engine, a 128bhp 1.2-litre gentle hybrid and the highest spec 138bhp 1.6-litre full hybrid from the Jogger.

Costs at the moment attain simply north of £26,000, so the brand new vary 4×4 hybrid is anticipated to push that nearer to £30,000.

It’s extremely seemingly that the powertrain will make its method into the marginally bigger Bigster, which is sort of technically an identical to the Duster. Different automobiles 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 time”, however the first electrical Dacia would be the Sandero, in 2027. The Duster must wait till its subsequent era to obtain an electrical drive system and it’ll most likely arrive in 2030 / be. 31.

Le Vot additionally confirmed that on the finish of November, the brand new Duster was the primary SUV for retail gross sales in Europe throughout all different-sized SUVs.