Dacia Duster is the cheapest SUV on sale in Britain

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2019 is shaping up to be a colossal year for electric cars with a number of car manufacturers bring new vehicles to market Nissan, Porsche, BMW, and Audi are among the many manufacturers launching new EVs this year. Electric cars are getting better, more capable and cheaper with vehicles such as the Hyundai Kona EV and Kia e-Niro being ‘affordable’ high milers coming to market. However, electric cars are still not cheap and there aren’t many ‘budget’ electric cars.

This space is something that budget car making pioneers Dacia are hoping to occupy when it launches its first electric car. Dacia makes the cheapest car and cheapest SUV on the road in the UK with the Sandero and the Duster respectively. Dacia’s European chairman Jean Christophe Kugler told Auto Express in 2017 that the EV will remain true to the Dacia brand’s ethos. “We will remain shockingly affordable. We won’t change our brand territory," he said.

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"We will benefit from the Alliance strength and the proven technology – so we can fit that to a Dacia. “We have all the [electric] technology ready and on the shelf. “Being part of the bigger Alliance means when we need a technology, we have it. We don’t have to negotiate.” Dacia is likely to borrow heavily from electric cars manufactured by parent company Renault which produces EVs such as the Zoe. The Zoe has been an immensely successful electric car for the firm and has been updated for the 2019 market.