India, Sept. 24 -- With electrification in its mind, Skoda has now turned its focus to introducing a fully-electric version of its popular sedan Octavia after 2025. According to reports, the electric Skoda Octavia will be based on Volkswagen's forthcoming platform, the SSP. It is also expected that the Skoda Octavia EV may get a more advanced battery pack compared to the Skoda Vision 7S concept vehicle which with its 89 kWh offers a range of 600 km and a charging power of 200 kW.

It is being guessed that the Skoda Octavia electric vehicle may get dual electric motors mounted at the front, one for each wheel, while an RS derivative may be added at the rear giving the EV an all-wheel-drive set-up. Skoda has already partially electrified th...