Renault 5 sales overtake Tesla Model Y in France - ArenaEV
Renault 5 sales overtake Tesla Model Y in France - ArenaEV
The Renault 5 E-Tech has taken the French electric car market by storm, outselling even the Tesla Model Y in its first full month of sales.
The Model Y is prettier and performs better, not to mention the charging infrastructure in place is a huge bonus. For Renault to overcome all of that, bloody well done.
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I knew the R5 would be a winner in France. This will encourage an $18k R4 clone. The original R4 and R5 fit French roads/culture well. R4 had top speed of 100kmh, IIRC.
Renault and Citroen (AMI) also pioneered ultra cheap city mobility EVs that hopefully continue to win.
The smaller the EV the more mileage/kwh. This is still a practical sized format.
The smaller the EV the more mileage/kwh. This is still a practical sized format.
That's unfortunately not the case yet. If you check EV database and sort by efficiency it's rather big, but aerodynamic cars that take the lead. The smaller ones apparantly don't allow for the right form factor ('water droplet') apparantly. I was searching for a small and highly efficient car and ultimately ditched size in favor of consumption.
I ended up with 4.89m x 1.89 x 1.50 - way bigger than I hoped for. But average consumption is 13.2 kWh/100km. At least according to online reviews and my experience during some test drives, the smaller ones I considered were rather between 18 and 22.
The BYD seagul is 9/100. 340km range. Ford escort shaped but smaller, not unlike R5. I think your mileage figures are based on weight needed for longer range.
Wow, amazing! The seagull isn't listed on EV Database yet, so I wasn't aware of that. Is this a somewhat realistic figure or just what the manufacturer declared it to be?
China's mileage estimates are perhaps regulated differently than US/EU/UK, but they are still regulated, and so "official".