Overview
- Dacia has opened reservations for the new Spring, a reworked city car built on Renault Group’s RGEV small platform that emphasizes space and practicality over styling.
- The car is offered with a single powertrain: an 80 PS motor, 27.5 kWh LFP usable battery, about 250 km WLTP range, optional up to 50 kW DC fast charging and bidirectional V2L for powering devices.
- The Spring grows to 3.85 m long and 1.74 m wide, provides a 337‑litre trunk plus an optional 18‑litre frunk, and comes in two trims (Expression and Journey) priced below €20,000 before incentives.
- Reports conflict on where the Spring will be built in Europe—Car and Driver names Novo Mesto, Slovenia, while El Periódico cites Slovakia—and that unresolved location matters for national purchase incentives because the battery is sourced from China.
- Dacia presents the Spring as a pragmatic urban EV aimed at typical short daily trips, reflecting a wider industry move to lower‑cost LFP battery chemistry and platform sharing to cut price and simplify ownership.