DACIA SPRING

A genuinely small EV at a low price gives plenty of boing for your buck

JACK WARRICK

I gnoring the Dacia Spring is impossible if you’re hunting for a small EV. Its headlinegrabbing starting price of £14,995 makes it comfortably the cheapest electric car on sale in the UK today, undercutting the Citroën ë-C3 by £6995 and the Fiat 500e by £10,000. Unlike several other boxy EVs on sale today that market themselves as ‘small’, the Dacia Spring is genuinely dinky. Measuring 3701mm long, 1583mm wide and 1480mm high, it’s very similar in size to the Hyundai i10. Entry-level Springs come with a measly 44bhp electric motor, which will eventually propel the car from 0-62mph in 19.1sec. It’s comfortably the slowest car on the market today and makes our rangetopping, £16,995 Extreme model a more enticing proposition. That’s equipped with a more powerful 64bhp motor with 83lb…

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Autocar (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 13, 2024

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