"Jb boin" (jb-boin)
10/15/2020 at 23:13 • Filed to: Dacia Spring, Dacia Spring Electric, Renault Megane eVision, Dacia, Renault, Horse, Concept car, electric, unveiling
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"Jb boin" (jb-boin)
10/15/2020 at 23:13 • Filed to: Dacia Spring, Dacia Spring Electric, Renault Megane eVision, Dacia, Renault, Horse, Concept car, electric, unveiling | 2
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Yesterday, Dacia unveiled it’s all new Spring Electric which is supposed to be the cheapest electric car in Europe (the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! is cheaper but it’s a “mobility instrument” or technically a quadricycle : Limited in power, maximum speed and with only two seats).
It’s 3.73m long (~12.2ft) which is similar to the Renault Kwid !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , the interior seems closer to !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! than !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .
The battery pack is small at 26.8kWh, the engine 33kW (44hp) and 125Nm of torque but because it’s a small battery it can be fully charged in less than 14 hours on a domestic 220v plug and less than an hour to have 80% with a wallbox.
The autonomy is 225km on the WLTP cycle and 295km on the WLTP City cycle which is decent for a cheap small city car that is supposed to be massively used for car-sharing platforms on urbans areas.
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Some of !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! photos and videos of the Spring :
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The Renault Megane eConcept, also the video and some photos of !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! :
Hold your horses !
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Two “real” videos of both cars done at the reveal event by French journalists :
BaconSandwich is tasty.
> Jb boin
10/15/2020 at 23:32 |
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I was just showing this to my wife. At the supposedly low price, I'd consider buying one. Except I'm in North America. And they likely will never sell it here.
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> Jb boin
10/16/2020 at 00:01 |
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Any word on the estimated price. The market is so devoid of low end electrics on this side of the Atlantic a deal with, say, FCA dealers could actually make a single model Dacia import scheme viable.
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BaconSandwich is tasty.
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10/16/2020 at 00:08 |
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Electrek was saying somewhere around 10,000 Euros. Not sure where they got that from.
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Jb boin
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10/16/2020 at 00:19 |
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FCA is the wrong group but it could be imported as a Nissan or Mitsubishi.
The price has not been revealed yet but it’s supposed to be around 15k€ including VAT (20 %), knowing that there is at the moment up to 5k€ in subsidies for an electric car so we could have the car for some 10k€ including taxes .
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Jb boin
> BaconSandwich is tasty.
10/16/2020 at 00:21 |
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They might import it for ride-sha ring platforms like they did try with some PSA cars and also with the Tweezy some years ago.
There is also the possibility of it rebadged as a Nissan or Mitsubishi.
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> Jb boin
10/16/2020 at 03:26 |
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GIB Dacia EV
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> BaconSandwich is tasty.
10/16/2020 at 08:53 |
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One model makes rarely do all that well here so maybe a rebadge for a struggling automaker like Mitsubishi could generate lots of dealer traffic even if just to look at them at such a low price.
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> Jb boin
10/16/2020 at 08:54 |
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It is possible. I think Mitsubishi could really benefit from it as there is basically no reason to go to a Mitsubishi dealership except to buy used so that would generate lots of traffic in the door. Where they could probably upsell an Outlander Sport or something.