News 2017 (400)
Official press releases
Renault e.dams is pleased to announce they will continue their successful partnership with Sébastien Buemi and Nicolas Prost until 2019.
INFINITI and Renault have added another opportunity for the students of the INFINITI Engineering Academy programme which helps youngsters to pursue high-performance technology roles in motor sport.
Robert Kubica has returned to a Formula 1 cockpit for the first time in over six years to conduct a private test with Renault Sport Formula One Team at the Circuit de la Comunitat Valenciana Ricardo Tormo.
- Renault and Powervault present a home stationary energy battery storage system based on second life electric vehicle batteries.
- Renault has a complete strategy now addressing all the uses of the energy storage market with this home energy storage system.
- M&S Energy joins customer trial to understand the benefits of Powervault’s smart home battery using Renault Second Life EV batteries.
- GT dCi 165 Auto EDC is now available as a hatchback or Sport Tourer estate priced from £27,740
- High-tech, high performance diesel engine joins the 205hp petrol engine GT version
- New twin-turbo engine is the most powerful 1.6-litre diesel available on the market today with power and torque output of 165hp and 380Nm respectively
- Developed and engineered by Renault Sport
- 4Control chassis with unique-in-class four-wheel steering
- Renault TREZOR has picked up the award for the most beautiful concept car at Italy’s prestigious Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este.
- Renault TREZOR is an all-electric concept car which embodies the styling cues and technologies set to feature on upcoming Renault models.
There is now just over a week to go before the Renault UK Clio Cup joins the star-studded British Touring Car Championship once more for its latest rounds of 2017 at the popular Croft Circuit in North Yorkshire (Sat 10/Sun 11 June).
New Koleos, which was unveiled at China’s Beijing Motor Show in 2016, and which is already available for sale in Australia, the Gulf States and certain South American and Asian countries, will hit European markets in June 2017.
Sam Randon (Ashbourne, Derbyshire) will make his Renault UK Clio Cup debut in the championship’s forthcoming two rounds at North Yorkshire’s Croft Circuit (Sat 10/Sun 11 June) with the Westbourne Motorsport team.
- Groupe Renault and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation started a partnership in September 2010, and have now renewed their commitment to the circular economy.
- As a circular economy pioneer and leader, Renault is the first carmaker to have developed an industrial system that will enable it to meet expected future mobility needs in the context of increasingly scarce natural resources.
- Renault proves the economic benefit of implementing circular economy practices, generating 0.5 bn euros revenue per year from recycling and remanufacturing operations.
- Introduction of INITIALE PARIS versions of SCENIC and Grand SCENIC.
- In France, order books for SCENIC INITIALE PARIS and Grand SCENIC INITIALE PARIS open on June 7, 2017.
- The two cars to go on display in showrooms across the country during the Renault network’s promotional week on September 14-18, 2017.
- New INITIALE PARIS versions combine the signature’s hallmark elegance with the styling and strengths that saw the uniquely-proportioned SCENIC break new ground in its segment.
The Force was strong for Renault Sport Formula One Team’s Jolyon Palmer in today’s Grand Prix de Monaco with a season-best eleventh position the result after 78 laps around the most iconic circuit in the Formula 1 galaxy.
One year after his victory in the Principality, Sacha Fenestraz (Josef Kaufmann Racing) did it again in winning the Formula Renault Eurocup race and curtain raiser for the F1 Monaco Grand Prix for the second time.
Renault Sport Formula One Team and Disney combine the worlds of motorsport and film in team-up for epic celebration of ruby anniversaries.
Will Palmer (R-ace GP) and Sacha Fenestraz (Tech 1 Racing) will start from pole position this weekend in the Formula Renault Eurocup at Monaco.
- New Mégane R.S. makes first public appearance in drive around Monaco’s famous grand prix racetrack by Renault F1 pilot Nico Hülkenberg.
- New Mégane R.S. will be unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September, sales are scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2018 and for the first time, customers will be able to choose between manual or dual-clutch EDC transmission.
Last year’s winner in the Principality, Sacha Fenestraz (Josef Kaufmann Racing) set the pace in the one collective test for the Formula Renault Eurocup in the streets of Monaco.