Renault detailed the brand new software program structure of its future autos which it stated can be on par by 2026 with that of electric-vehicle trade chief Tesla.
The French firm, like most automakers, has been residing for months below the specter of common and drastic worth cuts from its U.S.-based competitor. In France, the listing worth of the Tesla Mannequin 3 now begins on the identical stage because the Renault Mégane electrical, round 42,000 euros ($46,318).
Renault CEO Luca de Meo acknowledged at a presentation that Tesla stays a “problem within the quick time period,” however he stated his firm won’t have interaction in a worth struggle on electrical autos.
“We do not need to do what we did previously, we need to promote our automobiles, we do not need to give away our automobiles,” Renault’s head of engineering, Gilles Le Borgne, instructed journalists and analysts on the identical occasion on Monday.
A “software-defined car” design can be on the coronary heart of Renault’s future electric-vehicle entity, referred to as Ampere, the automaker stated. Developed with Alphabet’s Google and Qualcomm, it should significantly cut back complexity by permitting to have simply 20 processors on board to run a automotive as an alternative of the at present required 100.
This can even enable for updates to be made remotely with out touching the {hardware}.