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DAILY: Renault Sets EV Roadmap For 2030, Nissan Micra and VW ID.3 Neo | 12 Mar 2026

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Renault just put 800-volt charging—that costs $100K in Porsches—into a budget family car.

The episode opens with Renault's EV roadmap for 2030. He uses that as a launch point, then keeps the pace moving instead of dwelling on one corporate announcement. Nissan's Micra gets the longest look. He remembers the old Micra as the cheap, cheerful granny car nobody aspired to own, then makes clear the new one is not that at all. It shares its bones with the Renault 5, and he treats that shared platform as a plus rather than a compromise. The Alpine A290 is the sharper comparison case: the Micra keeps the friendly Nissan face and a simpler steering wheel, but underneath it is basically the same car, with a 52-kWh battery pack. The UK grant shifts the price story, taking almost 4,000 pounds off and making the Micra look like a real contender. He also walks through the configurator, the colour choices, and the interior, and he sounds genuinely won over by how the car comes together. He thinks it may be a four-seater, notes ISOFIX points, and says he'll check the fifth-belt detail before treating it as settled. VW's ID.3 NEO is in the opening lineup too, and BYD closes the broader news sweep with reported interest in Formula 1 and Le Mans, while EV News China is mentioned as the place where that story continues.

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A brisk EV roundup that turns battery size, platform sharing, and grants into practical context.

The piece moves from Renault's EV plans to Nissan's Micra and VW's ID.3 Neo, then on to BYD's push toward Formula 1 and Le Mans. It works best when it turns model names into practical context, especially around battery size, platform sharing, grants, and whether a small EV…

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