The new Renault 5 will launch in 2024 as a Fiat 500 Electric rival with 134bhp and funky retro looks
last year, hailing it as a key part of Renault’s push for 30% of its sales to be of electric vehicles by 2025., said: “I know from experience that reinventing a cult products lights a fire under the whole brand. This is a cult vehicle at a price many can afford. And this is only the beginning for the whole Renault brand.”
Renault design chief Gilles Vidal said: “The design of the Renault 5 Prototype is based on the R5, a cult model of our heritage. This prototype simply embodies modernity, a vehicle relevant to its time: urban, electric, attractive.” , which will arrive shortly after the standard car, using the same 215bhp powertrain as the Mégane E-Tech Electric. Described as a city car, the model will replace the hugely successful Zoe EV as the firm’s compact electric hatch. The original Renault 5 was launched in 1972, designed to fill the sizeable gap between the Renault 4 and the Citroën 2CV in the French small car market.