In the eyes of domestic consumers, Renault may be a less successful European brand.
In 2020, Renault Group transferred its shares in Dongfeng Renault and announced that it would withdraw from China’s fuel passenger car market.
In the eyes of senior fans, Renault and Alpha.
Like Romeo and Lutes, he has made an important contribution in the history of motor sports.
Until now, Renault still insists on participating in F1.
In the eyes of Renault’s loyal fans, Renault’s real family is a sports model like the Honda Civic (such as the Megane RS), but by mistake, Renault’s sports model missed a good opportunity to promote it in the Chinese market.
Megane RS and Renault F1 cars, but neither of these groups could have imagined that Renault was actually the first European runner to start on the latest electrified track.
As early as 2011, we visited the Renault R & D center in Paris.
Renault showed us a lot of technology related to electric cars, and even expressed the beautiful vision of only electric cars in the future.
At that time, Tesla’s first volume model, the Model S, had not even been released.
Quick Drop’s power exchange program, at the R & D center at that time, Renault also introduced us to a power exchange program called Quick Drop, and also showed us the underground battery warehouse similar to “Russian roulette”.
At that time, they designed a pre-buried power exchange equipment to replace the entire battery of the electric car from the bottom, and the whole replacement process took only three minutes.
You know, that’s the technical condition for 2009.
The Renault Morphoz concept car was launched in 2020, and ten years later in 2020, Renault also demonstrated a new power exchange model on the concept car Morphoz.
Depending on the mileage of the trip, Renault hopes to replace batteries of different capacities and sizes.
Of course, it is not necessarily a good thing to be too much ahead of the times, just in response to the old saying: one step ahead of the market is a pioneer, two steps ahead of the market becomes a martyr.
Renault looked back and found that his original dream had come true in today’s new power in China.
Renault’s goal is to launch seven models in the core European market and produce about 1 million electric vehicles for Renault in 2031.
” As soon as you listen to this time span and quantity, you can imagine how “unreliable” the plan is.
Therefore, in the face of the fierce pursuit of electric cars from China, Renault’s most urgent task is to speed up the development of pure electric models.
As a result, the first pure electric product based on Renault’s new B-class electric vehicle platform, the Renault 5 E-Tech, was finally launched this year.
Like Xiaomi SU7, Renault completed the development and manufacture of the new car in “only” three years, while Renault’s ambitious goal is to reduce the time it takes to develop pure electric products to two years, far ahead of its European counterparts.
Renault obviously considered how much fun it was to choose Renault 5 E-Tech as the debut of the new electric platform.
The original Renault 5 sold more than 5.
5 million cars on five continents from 1972 to 1985.
The Renault 5 Turbo, a favorite of veteran fans, is not only the classic representative of the hatchback in the 1980s, but also depends on its design and performance.
It appeared in Akira Birdhill’s cartoons and became a symbol of the times.
The layout of the Renault 5 Turbo mid-rear drive is the winning general in the rally field of that year, and the street version is also a favorite of collectors.
In the 1970s Renault 5, the design of Renault 5 E-Tech naturally pays homage to the classic Renault 5 everywhere.
Not only the lines of the whole body are basically reengraved, the headlights and vertical taillights are designed, but also the designs of the original Renault 5 are basically copied directly.
In the interior, the classic vertical stitches on the dashboard and the rectangular air conditioning outlet design are also retained.
The shield, the seat, the A-pillar, and the engine cover are equipped with a display screen in the charging state, which is fully charged, and the complete “5” will be displayed on the screen.
The “5” signs everywhere remind you that this is a classic new car from 50 years ago.
As a hatchback scooter that is more suitable for European road conditions, Renault 5 E-Tech provides battery capacity of 40kWh and 52kWh, which belongs to the degree that the old man in China will take a breath even after watching it.
But the beauty of European cars is that they can always find compensation in unexpected places.
Renault 5 E-Tech uses a synchronous induction motor without rare earths.
The lightweight design reduces the weight of the motor by 15kg and the rotor by 3cm to accommodate its small power cabin.
Including inverter and other components, the weight of the whole power system is only 105kg.
So the mileage of the two versions is 300km and 400km, respectively, so it is not too ugly.
After losing weight, Renault also installed a fast recharge port on the new car, and the charging power of the 80kW-100kW allowed the battery to go from 15% to 80% in about half an hour.
For narrow Europe, there is no mileage anxiety at all.
After solving the problem of driving life, it is necessary to solve the driving pleasure that the people of Europe care about most.
First of all, the front suspension is further optimized, with a turning diameter of only 10.
3 meters, which is very suitable for narrow streets in Europe.
The second is the size, the Renault 5 E-Tech is only 3.
92m long, the wheelbase is 2.
54m, and the steering system has a very fast transmission ratio (13.7). This area of steering agility is the dominant area for hatchbacks.
Finally, there is the interior.
A large number of physical buttons belong to Musk’s desire to swear, and it also preserves the atmosphere of driving for European and American users who love fuel cars, but it is said that L2 will be added later.
I don’t know if it will deprive them of some of their fun.
In the end, overall, the birth of the Renault 5 E-Tech is interesting, and it reflects a different answer in the age of electric cars.
Under the background of today’s mainstream new energy vehicles’ extreme pursuit of intelligence and battery efficiency, Renault 5 E-Tech based on the new platform shows the cooperation of electrification and driving fun through better lightweight and flexibility.
Even with electricity, it can still be a hatchback happy car.
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