MUNICH — Renault has introduced its first full-electric compact SUV with the Scenic E-Tech, providing greater than 620 km (385 miles) of dimension with two battery and two motor possible choices.
The Scenic E-Tech, making its debut on the 2023 Munich auto display, will succeed in the marketplace originally of upcoming past.
It’ll give Renault 3 distinct choices within the compact SUV department, becoming a member of the fresh Austral, a historically styled SUV that changed the Kadjar, and the Arkana, a coupe-style design that has been one thing of a miracle best-seller.
It’ll be constructed at the Renault-Nissan Alliance CMF-EV platform, which additionally underpins a sibling style from Nissan, the Ariya SUV, in addition to the Renault Megane E-Tech compact hatchback.
The Scenic is the 5th primary compact or midsize settingup for Renault since 2021. CEO Luca de Meo is pushing gross sales of bigger, higher-margin cars over tiny vehicles, the place Renault has had a management place on the expense of benefit margins.
The Scenic nameplate used to be worn for greater than 25 years as a minivan variant of the Megane. In conjunction with Espace – now a seven-seat midsize SUV according to the Austral – Renault has repositioned the Scenic as an SUV.
Stellantis discovered good fortune with a alike tactic for the Peugeot 3008 and 5008, onetime minivans that are actually SUVs.
The primary styling issues of the Scenic E-Tech have been unhidden in 2022 within the Scenic Seeing thought. Matching to the Megane E-Tech, large floor subjects are spark off by means of high-tech, jewel-like main points.
The Scenic E-Tech includes a 2780 mm wheelbase, which is 100 mm longer than the Megane E-Tech. General space is 4470 mm, 40 mm shorter than the Austral (and slightly cut for the department), however 260 mm longer than the Megane. Matching to the Megane, the Scenic has cut entrance and rear overhangs, which Renault says emphasize the robustness and athleticism of the design, as do flared wheel arches.
Aerodynamic main points come with flush door handles, 20-inch wheels with inserts that release the skin department and low-profile roof bars.
