Dacia has its own European factory in Pitesti, Romania, but has not yet given any indication of plans to build electric cars there.
Importantly, Dacia remains ardently committed to the Spring’s value billing, and would avoid incurring any significant increase in production costs so as not to threaten its list price.
“We don’t want to deviate from this positioning – it’s what makes the success of Dacia today: to be the best value proposition in every segment that we compete in.”
Dacia Spring facelift: Everything you need to know
The Spring will finally head to UK dealers in the coming months to become the nation’s cheapest electric car, following a substantial overhaul inside and out aimed at sustaining strong European sales volumes.
The Spring was originally introduced in Europe in 2021 as a rebadged version of the Chinese-market Renault City K-ZE. Its low launch price of just €16,800 (£14,385 at today’s exchange rate) meant it quickly rose up the EV sales charts, and three years on, 140,000 Springs have been bought on the continent.
However, the original Spring was not imported to the UK – partly because it was “lacking a bit of modernity”, in the words of Dacia design chief David Durand.
Now, though, it has been heavily updated to rectify that, with major improvements to interior quality and connectivity, and it is due to hit the market imminently, priced from just above £17,000.
