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Dacia Spring Electric 2023 review

Verdict​

The Dacia Spring is a good daily commute vehicle that delivers exactly what it promises. It doesn't shine with anything, but it also doesn't bother you in any way. Dacia promotes it as a city-oriented vehicle, and with its compact size and good visibility, the little Spring zips around town with ease. It is clearly intended as a no-frills transportation, and it does that well.

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Dacia Spring Electric 2023 review

The little Romanian hatchback proves itself as a capable city companion with its small sizing, great usability and basic technology.
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Dacia Spring to fix Britain's electric car affordability next year

The UK's electric vehicle market is set for a budget-friendly shakeup come 2024, with the Dacia Spring ready to cross the Channel. Already crowned Europe's most affordable new electric vehicle, the Spring is set to bring its reputation for value and functionality to UK shores.

Following its successful European debut in 2021, Dacia Spring recorded an impressive 120,000 customer orders. From city slickers to suburban dwellers, the Spring’s blend of utility, cost-effectiveness, and eco-friendly operation appeals to a wide array of drivers. This five-door supermini's track record might suggest it's a welcome addition to the UK's roads.

Dacia Spring isn't just about affordability; it's about serving the needs of everyday drivers. The average Spring driver in Europe covers fewer than 32 km daily at an average speed of 26 km/h. With its convenience and simplicity, it's no surprise that the Spring has become the primary transport for the week for 90% of multi-vehicle households that own one.

The Spring’s anticipated price tag of just over €17,300 will make electric driving more accessible for those deterred by the higher costs typically associated with EVs. But the Spring isn’t just about budget-friendly motoring; it’s also about performance, albeit within the bounds of urban utility.

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Dacia Spring to fix Britain's electric car affordability next year

Affordability meets sustainability with the Dacia Spring – Europe's most budget-friendly electric car set to shake up the UK's EV market in 2024.
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Dacia Spring review

WHAT'S THE VERDICT?

“We can see the Spring having broad appeal: learners, urban commuters, the eco-minded, those not wanting their new car to baffle them”

For many people the Dacia Spring will be the perfect introduction to the electric car. It will require minimal financial outlay and minimal confusion because it’s so straightforward to drive and operate. Not for the Spring are the agony of endless screen menus, modes and options. So it’s simple, it’s affordable and it’s fun to be in and around. 65bhp is enough when it’s pushing less than a tonne.

We can see the Spring having broad appeal: learners, urban commuters, the eco-minded, those not wanting their new car to baffle them (OK, let’s call them what they are: our senior citizenry), young families and more. The Spring’s appeal is that it’s everything that many electric cars aren’t: it’s not over-wrought or heavy-handed, it’s honest and enjoyable and manages to keep the dream of a low impact electric car alive and proves to everyone else it is possible for a battery electric vehicle to weigh largely the same as its petrol equivalent. Well done Dacia, let’s hope that where you lead, others will follow.

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Dacia Spring Review 2023 | Top Gear

Dacia’s entry-level electric car is everything you want: low cost, low weight, low impact, yet high fun
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Behold: the very new, very cheap and very excellent electric Dacia Spring

Finally, right-hand-drive electric city car – and TG Award winner – comes to the UK

Dacia has revealed a new car that’s slower than continental drift, features less power than your average sneeze, and is heavier than it was before.

Welcome then, to perhaps one of the finest new vehicles to emerge from 2024’s already hellish hellscape! It’s the new Dacia Spring!

Making its debut in right-hand-drive for the very first time is the new, thoroughly updated version of Dacia’s very first fully-electric car; a car that, in Euro-spec, earned TopGear.com’s ‘Bargain of the Year’ award 2023. Principally because when prices are revealed next month, we suspect they’ll start from well under £18k.

That’ll make it the UK’s cheapest new EV – assuming you strike the Citroen Ami from that list, which isn’t really a… V – and in terms of a Full Entire Car, you get a lot. Including Dacia’s new design language first seen on the Duster, which it calls ‘robust’.

 
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