Renault releases fresh tease of Volkswagen ID.4 fighter

Renault has continued to tease its first-ever pure-electric SUV ahead of its unveiling online on October 15.

Set to become the French brand's best-selling EV, the latest preview of how the new SUV is shaping up reveals how it will get an advanced full-length front light bar that incorporates and illuminates the Renault logo and features customisable graphics.

Below it, an earlier teaser suggested it will be backed up by a pair of boomerang lower LED driving lamps.

Elsewhere, it's believed the concept for the near-production SUV will be based on the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi CMF-EV architecture that will underpin the car-making group's next-generation electric cars.

The first model to be launched on the CMF-EV platform will be the Nissan Ariya, a vehicle that is understood to have been developed alongside the still-to-be-named Renault SUV.

Like the Ariya, the Renault EV is expected to come with two battery options – a 65kWh version and a more powerful 90kWh unit. This should provide a decent range of between 430km and 610km.

Created to rival both the Tesla Model Y and the recently-revealed Volkswagen ID.4, plus the new Ford Mustang Mach-E, the range-topping dual-motor model could boast the same 290kW/600Nm output as the flagship Ariya.

Due to go on sale next year, the new electric Renault SUV is expected to be priced around $60,000.

Renault recently dropped the slow-selling Renault ZOE from its line-up in Australia, but the company’s new strategy that concentrates heavily on SUVs will see the local distributor pushing the case for the all-new EV to be sold here.

The near-production concept will be unveiled as part of Renault’s ‘eWays’ online event that is held from October 15-26.

Renault Group’s budget brand Dacia is also set to unveil a production version of its Spring concept – a small SUV that’s been developed to be Europe’s cheapest electric car.