The market for electric vehicles increasingly in China
The Renault-Nissan Alliance seems ready to jump on the low-cost, competitive electric car market, a price well below 35,000.
Gérard Detourbet, Renault chief engineer best known for bringing the low cost competitive cars on the market is moving towards launching an electric car not expensive, according to the French financial newspaper Les Echos Detourbet has spent much of his time in a factory in China jointly by Renault-Nissan and the Chinese manufacturer Dongfeng.
He d been recruited retired 67 years by the CEO of Renault-Nissan Alliance Carlos Ghosn, and then sent to India to get a cheap car on the market The result was the Renault Kwid, a small car petrol engine launched in September 2015 to the very low prices of 3850 it instantly became a hot-selling car in the Indian market.
Now, at the age of 70, Detourbet shuttled between India and Wuhan, China, at a factory owned by the joint venture between Renault and Dongfeng as chief engineer of the electric car project at low cost, Detourbet opens the way to a competitive product that Ghosn was this year's champion.
Earlier this year, Ghosn commented during the inauguration of Renault and Dongfeng new Chinese factory in Wuhan, how cheap and frugal electric vehicles will be even more important than luxury cars for the Chinese market leader Ghosn said that the strategy a few months later in Beijing vehicle Exhibition.
High prices of electric vehicles with excellent performance are not selling well in China what sells in China are less powerful models, the most affordable, Ghosn said Renault and Nissan journalists continue to develop high models specifications, but we work very hard the introduction of affordable electric cars with low spec, and for that, we work with our friends in Dongfeng.
This affordable electric car can be sold to Chinese car buyers in the near future contributor to Forbes Bertel Schmitt that Detourbet spends much of his time at the factory in Wuhan, China, Renault and Dongfeng, said in a statement the not too distant future.
Schmitt had met Detourbet to Renault-Nissan's engineering center in Chennai, India The chief engineer explained how he's been able to cut costs on some Renault vehicles launching projects.
The best way to reduce the cost of a car is to reduce the number of its parts, he said that you get a car that costs less to the engineer, it is easy to assemble and has fewer problems .
He used the Apple mouse as an example to simplify the process and reduce costs, which the Apple mouse can do with a function button that other manufacturers needed two or sometimes three buttons to control much time time Detourbet the chief engineer went chasing unnecessary complexity, according to Schmitt.
Les Echos speculated that the next low cost car China could be a plug-in hybrid, and could be based on Clio Renault with batteries from LG Chem But the automaker has not be specific about the product launch beyond to be the best deal on the market.
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