The future electric Renault Twingo will be assembled in Slovenia
- Renault has announced that the future battery electric Twingo scheduled for 2026 will be assembled at the Slovenian site in Novo Mesto, which produced the previous generation of the model (thermal).
- Renault objective is to sell 150,000 units per year. This objective seems very ambitious. For Inovev, this model would reach 50,000 sales in 2026, 100,000 sales in 2030 and it would be necessary to wait until 2035 for the 150,000 sales to be effective, but this would done by the next generation, because the Twingo launched in 2026 could be marketed until 2033 in the best case scenario but hardly beyond.
- The decision to produce the future battery electric Twingo at the Novo Mesto site will save this factory because this site only produced 60,000 vehicles in 2023 (including 36,000 Twingos and 24,000 Clios), compared to 210,000 in 2018 and 220,000 in 2010. The years 2024 and 2025 are likely to be even worst, especially since Renault seems to have decided to stop the current Twingo before the launch of the new one. The Novo Mesto site, which has been producing Renault-branded vehicles since the 1970s, now employs more than 1,400 people.
- For the current Twingo, Renault had collaborated with Mercedes (Smart), but the German carmaker is now in partnership with Geely to design its new Smarts. For the future Twingo, Renault had considered collaborating with Volkswagen to share costs, but this association could not take place, Volkswagen having decided to design its own A-segment electric car internally. It is said that Renault would have turned to a Chinese carmaker to design its future Twingo. This could be Geely, which already collaborates with Renault for the Horse company.