Renault 5 Turbo 3E Revealed..Ioniq 5N's Rival Appears

Mar 21, 2025
















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Renault unveiled the Renault 5 Turbo 3E, a high-performance electric vehicle, on the 17th.The background of the birth of this car is the glory of the past. Rally racing was popular among car enthusiasts in the 1980s.





It was a period of competition among automakers to make stronger race cars. Renault decided to revive the Renault 5 Turbo, the most famous vehicle in the rally at the time.









In the design, the Renault 5 Turbo 3E is intense to look like a supercarThe cow was applied. The extreme bumper design and protruding fender show that the car has unusual performance.





It is being developed with the aim of officially releasing it in 27 years and has a compact size of 4080mm in total length and a light weight of 1,450kg.





It is a dual motor with a maximum output of 540 horsepower (400 kW), with a zero-back of less than 3.5 seconds and a maximum speed of 270 km/h.







It is an ultra-high performance model, but the driving distance per charge based on WLTP is more than 400 km.The battery has a 70kWh battery capacity, which takes about eight hours to fully charge with a slow 11kW charger.





With the 800-volt architecture, fast charging takes only 15 minutes to charge from 15% to 80% at speeds of up to 350 kW.




Unlike competing vehicles, where dual motors are applied but one motor is applied to the front and one to the rear wheels, the Renault 5 Turbo 3E uses motors one to the rear wheels.








So this car is originally rear-wheel drive like the Renault 5 Turbo. This is the biggest difference from the Ioniq 5N, which is called a powerful electric SUV.




Renault has yet to disclose the price, but the price is likely to reach up to $200,000, depending on the personalization option. Its domestic launch is undecided and it plans to start selling in major markets such as Europe, the Middle East, Japan, and Australia.





Only 1,980 units will be sold in limited edition models, a figure that represents the year the first Renault 5 Turbo was launched.




Editor Song Moon-cheol happymotors@naver.com











This article was translated by Naver AI translator.