Last year, Leapmotor and Stellantis announced the formation of Leapmotor International, a 51/49 Stellantis-led joint venture between the two carmakers. The French carmaker currently owns around 20 % of the Chinese carmaker.
This joint venture gives Stellantis exclusive rights to build, export and sell Leapmotor products outside China.
For this reason, Leapmotor International is going to assemble the small electric car T03 at Stellantis plant in Poland.
The production is slated to begin as early as the second quarter of this year, utilizing the semi-knocked down technique, wherein partially assembled kits are transformed into fully assembled vehicles.
Assembling electric cars in Europe is a way to bypass French legislation that excludes EVs made in China from public subsidies.
The cool Leapmotor T03 is the first model of the Chinese carmaker to get WLTP ratings (280 km range), sugesting that its European debut is near.
The European version should be based on the best equiped Chinese variant - called 403 Comfort Edition. Let’s see some details.
Leapmotor T03 (403 Comfort Edition)
Basic specs
- Seats: 4
- Length: 3.620 mm
- Wheelbase: 2.400 mm
- Width: 1.652 mm
- Height: 1.592 mm
- Luggage capacity: 210/508 L
- Weight: 1.190 kg
- Tire specifications: 165/65 R15
- Vehicle warranty: 3 years or 120.000 kilometres
- Price: 69.900 yuan (8.911 euros)
Powertrain
- Electric motor: 80 kW with a maximum torque of 158 N.m
- Maximum speed: 100 km/h (limited via firmware)
- Range (WLTP): 280 km (178 miles)
- Battery capacity: 41,3 kWh
- Battery chemistry: LFP
- Battery warranty: 8 years or 150.000 kilometres
- TMS: Intelligent liquid heat management system (heating + cooling)
- DC fast charging: 30-80 % in 36 minutes
- On-board charging (6,6 kW): 30-80 % in 3,5 hours
- System efficiency: up to 92,3 %
The European version will definately get its top speed increased to 120-130 km/h and the price should be around 20.000 euros to compete with the Dacia Spring.
I really like this small electric car. What do you think?
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