This is for our Challenge colleagues Gilles Le Borne made this announcement on the sidelines of the Munich exhibition (IAA 2023). Indeed, Renault is announcing that it may be building its next Renault 5 only in 10 hours at the plant in Douai in the north of France.

Renault is at the top of the rating

Quite simply, if Renault manages to achieve this engineering feat, the brand will become one of the most efficient in the industry. Indeed, the Japanese, known as the standard in this field, need between 13:00 and 14:00 make a vehicle. We can also mention Tesla, which prides itself on being able to build a car 9:00 a.m watch in hand.

Gilles Le Borne mentions in Challenge that in the 2000s a Peugeot 207 is required 17 hours for its manufacture. An example that highlights the great progress manufacturers have made in their production methods.

For those who have doubts about the claims of the director of engineering, the latter clarifies that 10 hours to build a Renault 5 it is not a hypothesisconfirming that Renault will now already able to do it.

Renault wants to do even better!

Despite this statement, Luca de Meogeneral manager of Renault, wants his brand to work even better in this domain. Indeed, the goal of a diamond brand would be to achieve 9:00 a.m to produce Renault 5. Then Renault would put itself on the level of Tesla.

The goal of the Renault 5 brand is to make electric cars available to as many people as possible. The latter will most likely be offered less than 25,000 euros without bonus. The low price, which is explained precisely by this very short production time. Indeed, the shorter the production time, the cheaper the car will be to produce, and therefore less in the end it will be expensive purchase.

We’ll just have to wait until Renault’s small electric city car goes into production to see if the words are followed by actions.

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