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On November 11, Renault Jiangling's new mini new energy car "Little Kirin" was officially launched, with a total of two models with a price range of 55900-58900 yuan, which will compete with similar models such as Wuling Hongguang MINIEV and Changan waxy corn. For comparison, Wuling Hongguang MINIEV, which is currently the best performer in the field of minicars, sells for 3.28-99900 yuan.

"Little Kirin" was renamed from Renault Jiangling Yi to EV2. In terms of appearance, the new car adopts the popular design style of minicars nowadays. The front face is designed with black closed grille, with fumigated headlights on both sides, and connected by a black decoration board, and the lower part is surrounded by an anti-friction board design, the overall shape is compact and round, and the recognition is high. In the rear part, the new car adopts the upper narrow and lower wide shape, and uses the fumigation treatment rear door design, and the rear surround echoes with the front face, which looks thicker.

On the side of the body, the shape of the new car is smooth, and a straight waistline runs through the whole body, with two-color exterior rearview mirrors and new-shaped rims to further enhance the visual length of the car, which is different from the design of the two-door structure of the mini car at the same price. the new car uses a four-door structure with a larger overall size than Wuling Hongguang MINIEV and Changan waxy corn. The length, width and height of the new car body is 3500/1646/1460mm, and the wheelbase is 2340mm. As a contrast, the length, width and height of Changan Lumin are 3270/1700/1545mm, and the wheelbase is 1980mm. By contrast, the new car has more 230mm in length and more 360mm in wheelbase, which has an advantage in size.

In the interior part, the new car uses two color options, the smart version is a vertical and horizontal two-color splicing light color theme with PVC leather seats, and the heart version is a dark theme with fabric seats. The new car is equipped with three-frame steering wheel, liquid crystal instrument and knob shift mechanism. In the seat layout, the new car adopts the design of four doors and four seats.

In terms of power, the new car is equipped with a permanent magnet synchronous motor, maximum power 26KW, maximum torque 84 N ·m, with 15.86kWh lithium iron phosphate battery, rear suspension for the same class of common torque beam non-independent structure, life, the new car CLTC pure electric mileage is 175km.

"Little Kirin" is the second model launched by Renault Jiangling, and the first model, "Yi", was launched on September 26, 2021. In July 2019, Renault Group and Jiangling Group jointly announced the establishment of a joint venture company, Renault Jiangling. Renault Group increased its capital by 1 billion yuan to become the largest shareholder of Jiangling New Energy vehicle, and then launched its first model, Yi, on September 26, 2011. the car is positioned as a compact pure electric sedan with a price range of 13.98-199800 yuan. As the first pure electric car in the joint venture between Jiangling and Renault, Yi uses a brand new "E" logo with the tail label "Renault Jiangling Group", but the market performance of the new car is very mediocre. According to the narrow sense passenger car wholesale sales data of the Federation of passengers, the cumulative sales of Reynolds River Ling Yi from January to September in 2022 was 2220, with an average of more than 200 per month.

As for the second model, "Little Kirin", can it become a volume model? The automobile industry is concerned that since the popularity of the Wuling Hongguang MINIEV market, the domestic sub-sector has gradually increased. According to the data of the Federation of passengers, the cumulative sales of the Hongguang MINIEV in 2021 increased by 250.7% to 395500 vehicles compared with the same period last year. Wuling Hongguang MINIEV sales increased by 15.7% to 297063 vehicles from January to September in 2022, and Chery QQ ice cream was 80744 vehicles. After listing, "Little Kirin" will compete with Wuling Hongguang MINIEV, Changan waxy corn, Chery small ants, QQ ice cream, zero running T03 and other models, but as Renault Jiangling small Kirin's brand awareness is not particularly high, and Wuling Hongguang MINIEV has become a popular model in the field of subcompact cars, it is obviously very difficult for small Kirin to compare with Wuling Hongguang MINIEV.

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