[maelito]

Also in Europe, an old state company called Renault is beating Tesla with the R5.

[3D30497420]

I just saw an R5 on the street in the bright green. Super cool looking car. There are a whole bunch of promising small EVs coming out in the EU. Hyundai Inster, VW ID.1, Kia EV2, etc.

[philjohn]

Took one for a test drive - it was fun. The only downside is compared to some other compact/city EV's the legroom in the back is REALLY bad (and I'm not exactly tall).

The legroom in my son's VW e-Up! is markedly better, despite it being a smaller car.

[conradfr]

And it's not even cheap (actually its success kind of baffles me but great I guess).

[brightball]

Wasn’t Renault an F1 competitor for many years?

[LunaSea]

3rd place for most F1 wins as a car motor builder.

[epolanski]

It still is, albeit they use the Alpine branding.

[rkomorn]

It was but I'm not sure how that's relevant.

Also not sure what the point of the "old state" part of the parent comment was. Renault is just another big carmaker.