NEWS Renault goes back to the future as new 5 spearheads the firm’s drive to electrification
RENAULT kicked 2021 off with a bang, taking the automotive industry by storm with a new business plan to go all-electric that the firm dubbed ‘Renaulution’. The crowning glory of the company’s announcement was chief executive officer Luca de Meo standing on stage as the reborn Renault 5 prototype made its debut, rebooting the brand’s iconic small hatch for 2021 as an electric supermini with retro-inspired styling cues.
Far from just a pie-in-the-sky concept, though, it was also our first chance to hear about the brand’s new CMF-BEV platform that would underpin future small electric Renaults. At
