The restyling version of Dacia Spring will be presented at the end of February, and it will reach buyers in the summer. Dacia Spring is the cheapest electric car in the EU, last year it found 61,000 buyers, but compared to two years ago, serious competition has been announced on the market. The biggest change customers expect isn’t about design or features.

Dacia Spring reached its first customers almost three years ago, with more than 15,000 cars on the streets in Romania, of which almost 7,000 arrived last year. Over the years, the car has increased in price by more than 10%, so that in most European markets its starting prices are 20,500 – 21,000 euros before subsidies. The version with a more powerful engine costs more than 22,500 euros.

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It’s time for a face lift in the spring as well, and the French press has written a lot about what it can bring. There will be some changes in the exterior and interior, but probably not radical, because Dacia does not want the car to become too expensive. Some publications wrote that the restyled Spring will have a slightly larger battery and slightly better autonomy, i.e. more than 200 km.

There is no indication that the Dacia Spring will be produced at any plant in the EU, nor in China, as the car cannot currently be assembled in Europe at such low costs as in Wuhan.

The two engine versions will be retained, but the most anticipated aspect will be the price, as in the European market, where government subsidies are reduced, car companies have had to cut prices to compensate. Dacia has already reduced the spring in several European markets, where subsidies have been reduced or disappeared.

It remains to be seen what will happen with the prices of the Dacia Spring facelift, but a symbolic price threshold for small electric city cars is already forming in the EU market: as many models as possible should have a starting price below €20,000, even if the variants with a larger battery cost around €25,000 for the same model.

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