The Renault DeZir activity is the aboriginal to acquire been led by Laurens van den Acker and marks the alpha of a arrangement of abstraction cars that will accommodate an acumen into Renault Design's fresh eyes for the future. DeZir stands out as an analogy of the brand's allegation to added affecting styling.
The DeZir is a two-seater coupé that Renault says stands out as an analogy of the company’s allegation to added affecting styling. With its sports car looks and adeptness to advance from 0 to 100 km/h (62mph) in bristles seconds, or 0 to 50 km/h in aloof two seconds, it’s adamantine to disagree.
Although the DeZir is absolutely a abstraction car at this point, Renault is acerb hinting that it shows not alone the administration they plan on branch with sports cars in the future, but that it is apocalyptic of a fresh overarching architecture and administration aesthetics beyond the absolute Renault brand.
The 'Z' in the name Renault DeZir is a absolute advertence to Renault's Z.E. signature, and several appearance of its architecture are evocative of two qualities readily associated with electric mobility, namely avant-garde technology and ablaze weight.
DeZir is powered by an electric motor army in a mid-rear position to optimize weight administration over the advanced and rear wheels. The vertically-mounted 24kW/h lithium-ion array is amid abaft the benchseat and provides the car with a ambit of 160km.
Battery cooling is ensured not alone by the air channelled from the advanced to the aback of the car, but additionally – and aloft all – by the breeze of air that enters through the crabbed scoops buried abaft the aluminium panels on either ancillary of the body.
Employing the aforementioned attempt as the KERS (Kinetic Activity Recovery System) apparent in Formula 1, back the car decelerates, active activity is recovered and stored in the battery. This activity can again be active by the disciplinarian to accommodate a acting ability addition application a button amid on the council wheel. The car can be answerable in 8 hours at 240-v, can get to 80% allegation in 20 account at 4o0-v (3-phase) and will acquire array swapping fabricated accessible by the Better Place alliance.
The basal motor is the aforementioned as the assemblage acclimated for Renault's assembly electric cars, although an change has enabled its ability and torque to be uprated to 110kW (150ch) and 226Nm respectively. Through the all-encompassing use of failing abstracts such as the Kevlar body, the DeZir tips the scales at aloof 830kg or 1,830 pounds. According to the French carmaker, the DeZir can go from aught to 100km/h (62mph) in 5 abnormal and ability a top acceleration of 180km/h or 112mph.
The DeZir will admission in October at this year's Paris Motor Show, but no date has been set for its abounding release. According to Fast Company, by the end of 2013 the Renault-Nissan accord hopes to aftermath 500,000 electric cartage globally, including the 2011 Fluence ZE and the 2011 Kangoo ZE electric van.
