The Dacia Spring is the Cheapest Electric Car in the Netherlands. You would expect Dacia Not to Put Too Much Money Into The Spring, As That would drive up costs. The Opposite is True. The Spring Has Been Thoroughly Renewed and Even Dethrones The Sandero As The Cheapest New Car In The Netherlands Regardless of the Type of Powertrain.
The update that dacia is implementing on the spring is thorough, perhaps equally more drastic than the second Renewal round that the cheap electric car went through in 2024. That is remarkable. Last year, The Dacia Spring Got an Almost Completely New Appearance. The Front and Rear Were Renewed, And It Even Got A Completely New Interior. There are hardly any external changes now. However, The News is Big, Hidden, But Extremely Important.
Until now, The Dacia Spring Always had a 26.8 kWh battery, but it is being replaced by a 24.8 kWh battery. Indeed: A Smaller Battery. For the first time, it is a lithium iron phosphate battery, a so-called lfp battery. Althegh the Capacity is Slightly Smaller, The Range of the Spring Remains Unchanged at 225 kilometers. What are the advantages of that lfp battery then? It is Lighter, Cheaper to Produce, and it can handle a highher charging capacity. Fast Charging was Previously Possible with a maximum of 30 kW, now with 40 kW. An improvement or about thirty percent. A DC Charging Capacity of 40 kW is far from impression in EV Land, but don’t forget that the Dacia Spring is the Cheapest Electric Car in the Netherlands.
Dacia Spring: Including New Color.
Stronger than ever
More is changing. The Dacia Spring is also getting new powertrains. Until now, the electric hatchback was available with a 45 hp or 65 hp electric engine. You can forget Both of Those. The 45 HP Variant is Being Replaced by a Version with 70 HP, which is Therefore Already Stronger Than The Previous Top Version. The 65 HP variant, in Turn, is Being Replaced by a Version with No Less Than 100 HP. By Spring Standards, That Is A True Powerhouse, Although Dacia Certainly Does Not Market It As A Sporty Version. Both Power Sources Are Just about 55 Percenter Than The Engines They Replace.
The Spring Hardly Changes on the Outside, All the More So Underneath.
Technically Tighted
The Adjustments Go Beyond the Arrival of New Electric Motors and Batteries. For Example, the Middle Part of the Platform Has Been Strengthed, result in Higher Rigidity. The Brake Booster Has Been Revised, The Spring Has A Stabilizer Bar For The First Time, And The Shock Absorbers Have Been Adjusted Differently. In Addition, 15-inch Instead or 14-inch Wheels Are Now Standard from the Expression Version. Previously, Only the Extreme Version had Standard 15-inch Tires.
You have to be an extreme Spring Connoisseur to Distinguish the Renewed Model of the Spring from Before the Update. Only the Rear Spoiler at the top of the Rear Window is Shaped Slightly Differently. Of course, not just any old way: Accordance to Dacia, the new one reduces the air turbulence around the top of the tailgate.
The Cheapest Car in the Netherlands: from Less Than € 18,000!
The Dacia Spring was Already the Cheapest Electric Car in the Netherlands and is now just the cheapest new car in the Netherlands Regardless of the Type of Powertrain. With that, the Spring Dethrones the Dacia Sandero. The existing Versions are not so much cheaper, because dacia chooses to add the new absolute entry-level version to the Dutch Delivery Range Again. That is called ‘essential’, just like with other dacias. The Dacia Spring Costs € 17.950 AS Essential, and with that the Starting Price of the EV is about a Thousand Euros Lower Than Before.
The Order Books Will Open in November. The First Copies Will Come To The Netherlands in Early 2026. Since the Market Introduction of the Spring in 2021, Dacia Has Already Sold Around 180,000 Copies Worldwide, or which Around 5000 in the Netherlands. Behind the scenes, Dacia is also working on a new electric A-segmenter. That will be a derivative of the new Renault Twingo and Will Probable Be Positioned Slightly Above the Spring, Althegh It is not inconsceivable that it will possibly push the spring out of the showrooms.