Peugeot will say goodbye to petrol and diesel engines in 2026, launching only new electric cars onto the market

Electrification is moving faster than we would like, especially given how infrastructure is progressing. More and more manufacturers are announcing the end of combustion-engine cars in their future ranges, while most drivers still have nowhere to plug them in. Now it is Peugeot that announces that from 2026 it will launch only new cars with 100% electric propulsion.

Logically, the petrol and diesel models presented up to that date will continue to be sold for a few more years. Let’s hope that by then the electrification situation in Spain, still trailing Europe, will have turned around 360 degrees.

Peugeot thus joins other brands that have announced similar plans, such as Audi, Jaguar-Land Rover or Volvo, to name just a few, getting ahead by almost a decade of the European Union regulation that foresees ending the sale of any vehicle with a combustion engine by 2035. Mind you, this includes hybrids of any kind, plug-in or not.

More than 80% of the current Peugeot range is already electrified

The announcement by Peugeot is no less surprising, as 2026 is, so to speak, just around the corner. It is true that the lion brand already boasts a range that is 80% electrified. But mind you, plug-in hybrids are included in that figure. For now, the only fully electric cars that can be bought in the Peugeot range are the e-208 and the e-2008, to which the electric version of the new Peugeot 308 will shortly be added. In the commercial vehicle range, however, the transformation towards purely electric models is moving faster, and we already have the Peugeot e-Partner, e-Rifter, e-Expert, e-Traveller and e-Boxer.

This announcement is part of the Dare Forward 2030 plan unveiled recently by Stellantis, which contemplates an offer of exclusively electric vehicles for all the group’s brands in Europe from 2030. To this end, the launch plan includes more than 75 new electric models over the next ten years, of which more than 60 will be aimed at the European market.