From the arrival of Luca de Meo at the head of Renault in 2020, the French automotive group has changed a lot. His master plan for recovery, called Renaulution, was to make people forget the failures of the Carlos Ghosn era, but above all to modernize and reorganize the group’s various brands. Because at that time the same dealership could sell Renault, Dacia or Alpine next to each other. for clarify your position and to ensure their development in a more autonomous way, Luca de Meo decided to make them independent of each other. Dacia provides from a niche of general models, allowing Renault increase the range and price. Alpine is the sporty (and soon to be 100% electric) division of the group. Mobilize dedicated to mobility and services.

Selected entities

In addition to the brands, the former CEO of SEAT also the research center was reorganized. The same organization was responsible for the development of thermal, hybrid or electric models. There was also cleaning, and now the technique is divided into two main poles. Power for thermal and hybrid, Ampere for electric. Each entity now has its own managementhis own teamshis own resource AND finances independently Brands of the Renault group cooperate now and then with others. For development of platforms, engines and technologies what they need Ampere, Renault’s pinnacle of electrics, should be able to reduce by 2027 40% of costs for the development of an electric model. Purpose and ambition demonstrated by Luca de Meo in a press release.

Simpler and cheaper electric cars

To achieve these goals, it Luca de Meo himself, who will take the reins of Ampere. He will be assisted operationally and financially by two senior Renault executives. But also by a team of 10,000 employees, a third of whom are engineers. It will rely on several levers to hopefully lower costs (and therefore prices) of future electric models. Simplify the designusing less coins (-30%) and reduction of assembly time, to reduce the total assembly of the car to 10 hours. But also to develop batteries of a new generation (sodium or solid) and a the architecture of the “software-engineered car”. Many of these Ampere works and innovations will introduced on the following R4 and R5 E-Tech Electric models. With this decision, Renault wants to develop electric models that are bolder, more technological, more environmentally friendly in their design and, above all, cheaper for end customers.

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