Renault seeks software system architecture on equivalence with Tesla b…

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Overconfident force on resale prices of cars

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Tesla a short-term challenge, says De Meo

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'We neediness to deal our cars non yield them away' -engineering chief

By Gilles Guillaume

BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, France, April 24 (Reuters) - R enault on Monday detailed the raw package architecture of its futurity vehicles which it said leave be on equality by 2026 with that of electric-fomite industry drawing card Tesla INC .

The European country carmaker, similar most automakers, has been living for months nether the threat of fixture and drastic monetary value cuts from its U.S.-based competitor.

In France, the lean damage of the Tesla Good example 3 now starts at the equivalent grade as the Renault Mégane electric, roughly 42,000 euros ($46,318).

Though Renault's CEO, Luca de Meo, acknowledged at a display that Nikola Tesla cadaver a "challenge in the short term," he said his society volition not lease in a cost warfare on electric 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 head up of engineering, Gilles Le Borgne, aforesaid to journalists and analysts at the Saami event.

A "software-defined vehicle" invention leave be at the eye of Renault's future tense electric-fomite entity, "Ampere," the Daniel Chester French automaker aforementioned.

Developed with ABCs Inc's Google and Qualcomm Inc, it leave considerably deoxidise complexness by allowing to get equitable 20 processors on board to lead a motorcar instead of the currently needed matchless 100.

This leave besides permit for updates to be made remotely without touching the hardware.

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

"In 2026, we will be at the level of Tesla" in computer software outlined 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)