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18/11/2011
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Renault is pursuing its proactive electric vehicle strategy with the inauguration of an electric test centre yesterday in Lardy, France. Renault now offers a range of all-electric vehicles that deliver the highest levels of performance, safety and quality thanks to the Group's €28 million investment and three years of electric powerplant development.
 The centre is the cornerstone of the brand's development of new electric technologies and houses most of the test facilities for electric motors and batteries. Operational since 2009, it has been gradually expanded to cover 3,300 sq. metres and some 100 test benches.
Over the past three years, the centre has run a comprehensive test programme for the development and validation of the performance, reliability and safety of the electric powerplants fitted to vehicles in the Z.E.[1] range. Lardy's technicians and engineers have thus acquired extensive testing expertise in the field of electric motor technology.
Renault has recently launched Kangoo Van Z.E. and Fluence Z.E., the first two of the four new-generation electric vehicles that will be released over the next year. Developing these highly innovative vehicles has called for an extensive list of tests designed to cover the performance, safety and durability of the new components: the electric motor, power electronics unit and battery.
Renault has set up dedicated test facilities – housed at Lardy in an electric mobility test centre which has been gradually expanded since 2009. The centre spans two buildings and around 100 test benches over a surface area of 3,300m2: Eight test benches for electric motors; six test benches for the power electronics unit (charger, controller, transformer); and 41 benches associated with environmental chambers to test lithium-ion batteries.
There are 58 other test benches devoted to improving the performance of the 12V starter batteries and researching second-life applications for lithium-ion batteries.
All this work comes on top of the input of Renault's partners on their own test benches.
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John Challen
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