- New Dacia Spring is a Euro-made budget-friendly urban EV.
- It has a Renault platform, 80 hp and a 155-mile WLTP range.
- The entire lineup will be priced under €20k before subsidies.
Dacia has unveiled a new generation of the Spring, marking a complete overhaul for one of Europe’s most affordable urban EVs. The small hatchback is built on Renault bones, promising a 155-mile range, clever design features and a sub-€20k price tag. Unlike its Chinese-built predecessor, the new Spring will be manufactured in Slovenia, avoiding import tariffs in Europe.
The new model swaps the aging CMFA-EV platform of its predecessor for the new RG-EV architecture. This is another name for the AmpR Small platform, already underpinning the Renault Twingo E-Tech, Renault 5 E-Tech and Nissan Micra hatchbacks.
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The shift to the new platform gives the urban EV different proportions and a larger footprint. More specifically, the new Spring is 150 mm (5.9 in) longer and 180 mm (7.1 in) wider compared to its predecessor, stretching to 3,850 mm (151.6 in) long. It is also 61 mm (2.4 in) longer than the Renault Twingo E-Tech twin, adopting an entirely different styling language.
Unlike the Renault Twingo with the frog-style headlights and the soft curves, the Dacia Spring is less playful and more utilitarian. Designers gave it boxy LEDs, a generous amount of plastic cladding on the bumpers, conventional door handles and new wheels measuring 15 or 16 inches in diameter.
Power comes from a single front-mounted electric motor producing 80 hp (60 kW / 82 PS) and 175 Nm (129 lb-ft) of torque. This draws energy from a small 27.5 kWh Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) battery, offering a WLTP range of up to 155 miles (250 km). The battery pack needs 28 minutes to charge from 15-80% from a 50 kW DC fast charger, or 2 hours and 55 minutes from the standard 6.6 kW AC onboard charger.
The lineup will include Expression and Journey trims. Dacia has yet to announce detailed pricing but promised that the entire lineup will cost under €20,000 ($23,000) before local EV subsidies, including the pictured flagship trim. This means it will be more expensive than the outgoing Spring, which started from a heavily discounted €11,900 ($13,80) in Germany earlier this year and will likely remain on sale alongside the new generation.
This is a developing story and will be updated…
