Specs for all generations of Dacia Spring

Dacia Spring is a good affordable electric vehicle, designed mainly for being a daily driver in the city. Its compact, despite its SUV look, size, the small battery, somewhat low top speed of 125 km/h (77.67 mph), and slow acceleration make it more suitable for an urban environment rather than for long drives on the highway. This, however, does not mean that the Spring should not be taken out of cities at all; it will get you where you need to go, just more slowly. Its all-electric range of 225 km (139.81 mi) is enough to cover some extra-urban distance on one go (as of 2022).

Charging times of Dacia Spring are quite reasonable, depending on the power outlet. If charged at a standard household power outlet, it would take about 7 hours for the battery to go from 20 to 80%. This time is reduced to about 5 hours, if 3.7 kW (16A) wallbox is used, instead. The ability of the Spring to charge on direct current (DC) is an optional feature to have. With DC charging, it only takes half on hour for the battery to charge from 20 to 80% (as of 2022).

A drawback of the Dacia Spring that is often mentioned is the inability to adjust driver’s seat height and steering wheel position (as of 2022), meaning the driver needs to somehow adapt to the vehicle. This can make driving quite uncomfortable for some, if their preferences are not met. Since the model is designed in a way to keep costs minimal, materials used in the interior are not of superior quality and while they look good, they have a cheap feel. This, of course, is expected from a vehicle in this price range.

The reversing camera is a convenient feature that the majority of modern vehicles have. While the base level Dacia Spring does not include one, the upper Comfort Plus trim, on the other hand, does. Along with a reversing camera, Dacia Spring Comfort Plus also gets a 7-inch touchscreen system with navigation and smartphone mirroring, central locking, automatic headlights and wipers, rear parking sensors, and the ability to be fitted with a 30kW CCS DC charging system (as of 2022).

Regenerative braking preserves the energy generated from using the brakes on a vehicle, which is otherwise wasted, and puts that energy into the vehicle’s battery, recharging it. Dacia Spring, unfortunately, does not have this regenerative braking capability. Since it is an expensive feature to add to a car, Dacia needed to skip it, in order to keep the model’s price as low as it is.