I’ve driven the Dacia Spring – and this EV is cut-price electric motoring at its bare-bones best

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There is a deafening cry on internet forums, comments sections and – dare we say it – certain tech websites for more affordable electric vehicles. So far, passenger cars with battery packs and electric motors have been expensive, they depreciate at a startling rate, and they generally alienate anyone counting the pennies at the end of each month.

“Electric vehicles are for the rich!” is the overarching, often shouty sentiment, but things are changing and the Dacia Spring, which I’ve recently driven, is the perfect embodiment of this impending sea change.

Produced by Renault’s budget European brand Dah-chee-ah (original hailing from Romania), the Spring has been on sale in select European countries since late 2023, but it more recently hit forecourts in the UK with prices starting from just £14,995 (around $19,000 / AU$30,000).

(Image credit: Dacia)

It’s not yet available in the US, but if it was, it would rapidly enter the top three cheapest cars on sale, based on those conversions. An especially admirable effort considering all of its closest cut-price rivals (Mitsubishi Mirage and Nissan Versa) sport relatively inexpensive internal combustion engines.

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