The last road for Dacia Spring in Europe. What convinced the Renault bosses to stop the plans for a new generation of the model

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Dacia Spring will not have a new generation, after the decision to build Renault Twingo electric. Only one Renault model will be manufactured in Slovenia, as the head of the company, Luca de Meo, said.

Information comes from sources Profit.ro close to the car company from Mioveni. According to the quoted source, however, contacted on this topic for several days to confirm or deny the information, the representatives of the companies did not respond. The sources quoted by Profit.ro claim that the decision would have come against the background of the Renault brand’s need to sell an accessible fully electric car, at a price below 20,000 euros.

In November 2023, at an event dedicated to investors, Luca de Meo presented the concept of the future electric Twingo, a car developed by Ampere, the electric division, and which will be assembled, according to the agreement signed with the Slovenian government, in the factory in Novo Mesto. At the time, the announcement came as a surprise, as the same Luca de Meo had declared two years earlier that the Twingo would not be replaced by a new generation.

Behind the new Twingo is the decision to transfer the entire Spring 2 project to Twingo E-TEch

The future affordable electric model of the Renault group will benefit from a brand with more weight and generate higher sales, at a price that Spring could hardly have had, after this year’s discount, says the quoted source, via transfer to Twingo E-Tech.

At the same time, the Renault brand will also allow the sale of more powerful and better equipped versions, at prices that generate more profit, something that a Dacia car would not have been able to achieve. The question arises “why can’t both models be manufactured and sold in parallel on a single platform?”. The explanation seems simple: to be competitive, the quoted source explains, Spring should have a price difference, below the future Twingo, of at least 5,000 euros, which, in the current market conditions, would be impossible.