Fiat launched the primary pictures of the brand new 500 hybrid, which revealed that it will get a revised inside and a six-speed handbook transmission.

Images of a bunch of prototypes earlier than the discharge present that it’ll look similar to {the electrical} 500E, aside from a reworked main grille to feed extra air to a petroleum engine.

Inside, the dashboard has a bigger and sq. new storage field and the gears are elevated subsequent to the steering wheel – as within the previous petrol 500.

Fiat has but to substantiate which energy the five hundred hybrid will use, however it’s anticipated to make use of the identical 1.0-liter three-cylinder Gentle-hybrid fireflyY Engine seems within the Previous 500 and Fiat Panda.

The presence of a handbook transmission comprises the 1.2-liter three-cylinder Gentle-hybrid Puretech engine Utilized in all kinds of fashions underneath the Stellantis umbrella, akin to the brand new Fiat Grande Panda, as a result of it was provided completely with an computerized double clutch with six-course.

The manufacturing of the five hundred hybrid begins within the fourth quarter of this yr – sooner than the early 2026 deadline beforehand set by Fiat.

The transfer to sort out an electrical automobile with a combustion engine is unprecedented within the European automotive trade.

A number of studies in March 2024 recommended that the daring measure was carried out of two essential challenges.

First, the necessity was to boost the manufacturing charges on the Mirafiori manufacturing unit amid the sluggish gross sales of the 500E and its Abartth five hundredth Scorching Hatch brother, which led to Fiat lasting manufacturing on the manufacturing.