Renault brand will sell hybrid vehicles
- Among the alternative energy engines, the Renault-Nissan group has so far favored the electric motor, becoming, in a short time, the world's largest manufacturer of electric cars, thanks mainly to the Renault Zoe, Renault Kangoo ZE, Nissan Leaf and Nissan e-NV200.
- With the acquisition of Mitsubishi in 2017, the Renault-Nissan group now has a plug-in hybrid vehicle in its range (Mitsubishi Outlander), of which nearly 11,000 have been sold worldwide in the first half of 2017. This type of engine will now be applied on Renault and Nissan models.
- Hybridization seems, according to Carlos Ghosn, a response adapted to the programmed reduction of diesel which will become more expensive due to the cost of future anti-pollution standards, and which is already undergoing a clear decline in Europe, its principal market (46.3% of the market in the first half of 2017 compared with 50.2% in the first half of 2016), mainly due to the Dieselgate scandal, and the increasingly strict measures, in force or announced, concerning diesel vehicles in cities.
- Thus in 2022, Renault will have more than one diesel engine (1600) instead of three today (1500, 1600, 2000). The thermal engines will represent 50% of the range, while the hybrid engines (12 new models) will represent 30% and the all-electric engines (8 new models) 20%.
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