Renault seeks software program architecture on equality with Tesla by 2026 > 커뮤니티 카카오소프트 홈페이지 방문을 환영합니다.

Simplified vehicle design, similar to Tesla

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Plus upshot on resale prices of cars

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Tesla a short-term challenge, says De Meo

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'We privation to sell our cars not move over them away' -engine room chief

By Gilles Guillaume

BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, France, Apr 24 (Reuters) - R enault on Monday elaborated the raw computer software computer architecture of its succeeding vehicles which it aforesaid testament be on equation by 2026 with that of electric-vehicle manufacture drawing card Tesla Inc .

The French carmaker, comparable well-nigh automakers, has been life for months below the menace of steady and drastic cost cuts from its U.S.-founded competition.

In France, the inclination cost of the Tesla Simulation 3 at once starts at the Saami dismantle as the Renault Mégane electric, about 42,000 euros ($46,318).

Though Renault's CEO, Luca de Meo, pagar beton minimalis acknowledged at a intro that Tesla clay a "challenge in the short term," he aforementioned his companion testament not rent in a terms warfare on galvanizing vehicles.

"We don't want to do what we did in the past, we want to sell our cars, we don't want to give away our cars," Renault's capitulum of engineering, Gilles Le Borgne, aforementioned to journalists and analysts at the same issue.

A "software-defined vehicle" intent testament be at the philia of Renault's time to come electric-vehicle entity, "Ampere," the European country auto manufacturer aforesaid.

Developed with ABCs Inc's Google and Qualcomm Inc, it will substantially cut complexness by allowing to get merely 20 processors on table to move a automobile as an alternative of the presently required unitary hundred.

This testament besides allow for for updates to be made remotely without touch the computer hardware.

"This is similar with Tesla, in 2026 they are going to have the same approach, they have the same EV architecture approach," said Renault's head appendage officer, Frédéric Vincent.

"In 2026, we will be at the level of Tesla" in software system settled vehicles," le Borgne added.

By making constant updates of driving and infotainment features possible, the architecture should improve the resale value of the cars, supporting the pricing power of the company, and avoid 1.5 billion euros of Research & Development (R&D) expenses in a decade.

The total cost balance should nevertheless be neutral after taking into account the investment required for the new architecture and the price of the more advanced processors put aboard, Le Borgne said.

The "Flexevan" electric van program for last-mile delivery will inaugurate Renault's new architecture around mid-2026, followed by the sporty Alpine brand and then by all models of the Renault brand.

($1 = 0.9068 euro) (Reporting by Gilles Guillaume in Paris Writing by Victor Goury-Laffont Editing by Matthew Lewis)