Dacia, like the rest of the brands that make up the Renault Group, will carry out a transition process towards electric mobility. However, Dacia’s transformation into a 100% electric car brand will take longer. Some statements made by Denis Le Vot himself confirm various clues about this change that has begun in the popular Romanian firm.
the future of Dacia
it inevitably goes through electrification. At a time when the European Commission has established a clear roadmap establishing that the battery-powered electric car and the hydrogen fuel cell will be the only valid options in the European territory, the brands must get down to the work to carry out its transition process towards electric mobility.
Dacia, one of the brands that make up the Renault Group, is no stranger to all these changes that are taking place in the European automotive industry. It’s more, in the Dacia range we can already find an electric car. The small and affordable (with help) Dacia Spring. However, and although the commercial success of the Spring is evident, it is not a self-developed model and has basically come to the Old Continent by accident.
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Dacia’s commitment to the electrified car and its commitment to LPG
In the Dacia range, if we put aside the Spring, there is no electrified vehicle. This will change in 2023 with the arrival of the company’s first hybrid car (HEV). The Dacia Jogger will become Dacia’s first hybrid. And what’s more, the brand itself announced at the time that it will be the cheapest seven-seater self-charging hybrid on the market.
Denis Le Vot, CEO of Dacia, has made some very interesting statements to a specialized media in which he analyzes various issues, including the Dacia electrification process. Will be fast? Will priority be given to hybrid vehicles to later bet on 100% electric ones? Let’s go into detail.
The top leader of Dacia warns that, at the moment, the brand “plays with weight” and its bifuel engines adapted to LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas): “The Jogger, 1.2 metric tons with 1.0 ECO-G engine, It has emissions of 119 g/km of CO2. Today our hybrid is the LPG engine, and it’s a really smart solution, but it’s not going to last 20 years, for sure,” Le Vot assured.
Dacia has at its disposal the technology developed by the Renault Group and that is already being applied to the Renault brand itself. However, Le Vot noted that they will use the company’s assets one by one when the time comes: “We will use the company’s assets one by one when the time comes. We will have a full hybrid at some point, using Renault’s E-Tech system, probably in 2023″, referring to the expected Dacia Jogger hybrid.
When the time comes Dacia will get on the electrification bandwagon
The amortization of the technology used by Renault it is decisive so that Dacia can benefit from it. Le Vot went a step further by clarifying that “By that time, the Renault Group will have sold perhaps half a million of them, so it will be fully amortized. You will say, this is the cheapest full hybrid on the market, but there is no magic. It is only the cycle of use of the Group’s assets that will allow us to do that.”
Last but not least, Le Vot emphatically pointed out that the full electrification of Dacia will be possible thanks to the amortization of Groupe Renault technology and therefore a reduction in costs. And it is key, the hybrid technology developed by the French manufacturer made it impossible to incorporate it into the Dacia range simply because of the price factor.
Source: autonews