Dacia to Produce Sub-€18,000 Electric Car in Morocco

Motivated by Luca de Meo, CEO of the Renault group, the Dacia brand will develop Spring 2, the replacement for the Spring developed on the basis of the new Twingo. De Meo had announced in February the development of this new electric city car for less than €18,000 during the presentation of the Renault group’s results. This second generation of the city car will borrow the platform of the future Renault Twingo (launch in spring 2026).

The future city car should be based on the AmpR Small platform of the R4, R5 and especially the future Twingo. It should use an LFP battery (supplied by CATL) with a slightly lower capacity than that of the future Twingo (which announces a consumption of 10 kWh/100 km) in order to be cheaper than the "Frog". The new Spring would offer a range of less than 250 km.

This project is locally led by the 150 people of the Advanced China Development Center (ACDC), who "act as an interface with the Technocentre in Guyancourt for the post-design stages," reports L’argus, adding that Chinese suppliers "would have been invited to set up on the Moroccan side where Dacia is located in order to avoid European protectionism." Production of the future Spring should start in 2027.