It can go fast
It can go fast. For a long time, Dacia wanted nothing to do with hybrid powertrains, let alone electric ones. Nowadays, Dacia has a very different view on this. In the meantime, almost a quarter of all new Dacias are equipped with an electric motor.
When it comes to electrification, Dacia has never been a pioneer. Hybrid powertrains are relatively expensive, let alone fully electric. And a Dacia? It should of course be relatively affordable to purchase. With the Spring, Dacia launched a relatively inexpensive electric car in Europe just over 4.5 years ago, based on a Chinese electric Renault to keep costs down. About three years ago, Dacia CEO Denis Le Vot indicated for the first time that it might come with a car with a hybrid powertrain. By the end of 2022, the time had come, when Dacia presented its first hybrid car ever with a hybrid version of the Jogger. Nowadays, the electrified models play a very important role in the Dacia line-up.
Dacia sold 356,084 cars worldwide in the first half of 2025. That was slightly less (-0.7 percent) than in the same period last year. According to the Romanians, this decrease in registrations is easy to explain: the Duster was previously sold in Turkey – just like in the Netherlands – as Dacia. Since the generation change, however, the Duster has been going through life as a Renault, with the result that the Turkish Duster sales are now recorded at Renault. Anyway: of the more than 356,000 cars that Dacia sold in the first half of this year, almost a quarter were electrified. 23.5 percent, to be exact. That share was still 9.1 percent in the first half of last year. These electrified models include both the electric Spring and the models with (mild) hybrid powertrains (Jogger, Duster, Bigster).
The Spring accounted for almost 19,500 units sold. That was no less than 62.5 percent more than in the first half of last year. In other words: 6.2 percent of all Dacias sold in the first half of 2025 were therefore electric. 17.2 percent of all Dacias sold in the same period had a hybrid powertrain. In the first half of 2024, that share was only 5.4 percent. The electrified variants of the Duster in particular are boosting the figures.