Renault Eolab

The Renault Eolab is a plug-in hybrid concept car built by the French maker Renault and shown to the press in September 2014, shortly before its formal debut at the Paris Motor Show. It is a supermini-sized showcase for nearly one hundred technologies that Renault said would reach production models by 2020. A small three-cylinder one-litre petrol engine works with an electric motor mounted in the clutch casing, and a compact lithium-ion battery gives about 65 kilometres of electric running. The kerb weight is held to 995 kilograms by a body of steel, aluminium and composites with a magnesium roof, and active aerodynamics bring the drag coefficient down to 0.235.