Dacia is preparing a sub-£16,000 electric city car that was spotted testing and will be revealed later this year ahead of a public debut at the Paris motor show in October.
The model is closely twinned with the Renault Twingo, sharing a raked C-pillar, curved roofline and similar wheel-arch surfacing, but it uses a thin gloss-black front panel and has higher-set rear brake lights; Dacia developed the car in 16 months.
Dacia has not released full technical details, but the car is expected to mirror the Twingo with a likely 27.5kWh battery and roughly 160 miles of range, and the company confirmed pricing from under €18,000 (£15,600). Patrice Lévy-Bencheton, Dacia product boss, told Autocar the model "will not immediately replace" the Spring because "they are still quite different."
Dacia also confirmed plans for three further electric vehicles through 2030, including an electric version of the next-generation Sandero on Renault's CMF-B platform with multi-energy powertrain options, and said it will expand hybrid offerings and push models such as the Striker and Bigster to grow sales.
This report is based on information originally published by AutoCar.
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