Dacia does not build many cars like the Dacia Spring: a 5-door hatchback, built from 2021 in the decade the industry is turning electric. Its designer of record is David Durand (design director).
How it came about
The Dacia Spring is a battery electric city car (A-segment) produced and marketed by Romanian manufacturer Dacia since 2021. The first generation was styled as a crossover, while the second generation adopts a hatchback body style.
The hardware
it is rated at 33 kW. Kerb weight is NNNN -. The gearbox is a Single-speed automatic. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2423 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Where it sits in Dacia's history is not in doubt: it was built at Shiyan, Hubei (eGT New Energy Automotive), China. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Chery QQ Ice Cream, the JAC Group Sehol E10X, the Daihatsu Taft (LA900). Its Dacia stablemates include the Dacia 1100 and the Dacia 1210.