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Renault's Medium-Range Electric Prime Mover

Renault’s Medium-Range Electric Prime Mover

My only previous experience with Renault’s medium-range electric prime mover was at its European launch at the Solutrans Show in Lyon, France last November, where I was permitted two minutes behind the wheel in a car park. This time I can take it for a proper run in and around Glasgow.
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Hidden Behind the Skirts

Hidden Behind the Skirts

Hidden behind the skirts of the Renault Trucks E-Tech T are six 90kWh lithium-ion battery packs, providing 540kWh of power, as PowerTorque’s European Correspondent Will Shiers discovered.
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Renault Trucks' E-Tech T

Renault Trucks’ E-Tech T

With its electroluminescent paintwork, Renault Trucks’ E-Tech T certainly stands out from the crowd, but as PowerTorque’s European Correspondent Will Shiers discovers, it didn’t need a gimmick to make it shine.
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testing electric truck range

Testing Electric Truck Range

PowerTorque’s European Correspondent, Will Shiers, attempts to get into the record books while testing electric truck range at the same time as circumnavigating London in a zero tailpipe emissions 16-tonne Renault D ZE.
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Renault product will always look a little quirky

Renault Product Will Always Look a Little Quirky

The design of most Renault product will always look a little quirky. The company doesn’t go for the conventional if it can demonstrate a little style or introduce a little Gallic ingenuity. This is the case, even in the work horse, Master van, which Diesel News took for a test drive.
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driver comforts from Renault

Driver Comforts From Renault

The design of most of its product will always look a little quirky, but it is the driver comforts from Renault which stand out. The company doesn’t go for the conventional if it can demonstrate a little style or introduce a little Gallic ingenuity. This is the case, even in the work horse, Master van, which Diesel News took for a test drive.
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all-electric drivetrain under the hood

An All-electric Drivetrain Under the Hood

Given it was launched in 2009, the second- generation Renault Kangoo is no spring chicken, but by offering an all-electric drivetrain under the hood, the clever people at Renault have quite literally transformed the tireless little workhorse, according to Paul Matthei. Read More
robo delivery concept

Robo Delivery Concept

Renault brings its robo delivery concept to life with Renault EZ-PRO, an autonomous delivery design featuring shared customisable robo-pods, which use a field-based human ‘concierge’ for special deliveries and driverless robo-pod fleet management. Read More
Top of the Horsepower Tree

Top of the Horsepower Tree

Not that long ago most (if not all) of Europe’s truck makers were still vying to climb to the top of the horsepower tree, reckons Diesel News’ European Correspondent, Brian Weatherley. Today it’s another story altogether. I’d say the first truck maker to publicly take its foot off the power pedal was Mercedes.
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