Renault Scenic Is Automotive of the 12 months In Europe 2024

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The French household SUV Renault Scenic is Automotive of the 12 months in Europe 2024. CleanTechnica’s Maarten Vinkhuyzen coated the return of this icon in electrical clothes again in September.

Now it has received the distinguished honor, and the Danish affiliation of motorists launched a press launch on the victory:

“With the brand new eScenic, Renault is reclaiming its position as a number one producer of electrical vehicles,” says FDM’s automotive technical editor, who can be president of the jury behind Automotive of the 12 months.

The electrical household automobile ended up on the prime of the rostrum when the distinguished title was awarded on Monday morning in reference to the opening of the Geneva Motor Present. The normal automobile exhibition, which for a lot of years has offered an exhibition corridor for the Automotive of the 12 months award, is again this 12 months after being dormant for the reason that pandemic in 2020 put an finish to automobile exhibitions.

The BMW 5-Sequence, which within the electrical model in November was named Automotive of the 12 months in Denmark 2024, got here in second place.

This 12 months is the 61st time {that a} jury of a complete of 58 European automobile journalists from 22 nations has chosen Automotive of the 12 months. FDM’s automotive technical editor, Søren W. Rasmussen, is each president of the jury and on the similar time the one Danish jury member. Though he had the BMW 5-Sequence on the prime of his listing, he’s glad with this 12 months’s profitable automobile, which he himself had in second place.

“Renault Scenic is a particularly spacious and smooth-driving electrical automobile that, with a wonderful consumer interface, making it straightforward for shoppers to modify to an electrical automobile. The Scenic may be very straightforward to drive, and with the choice of selecting between two battery sizes, Renault has made the entry worth reasonably priced for extra folks, as the most cost effective model of the Scenic prices DKK 310,000 DKK ($45,120),” says Søren W. Rasmussen.

For the title of Automotive of the 12 months 2024, going to an electrical automobile was within the playing cards. 4 of the 7 finalists within the battle for the coveted title are electrical vehicles, whereas 2 of the three remaining finalists can be found both as pure electrical or hybrid. The Toyota C-HR, which got here in final place, shouldn’t be out there as a pure electrical automobile, however solely as a hybrid with or with out charging possibility.

“With this 12 months’s placement of the seven finalists, the pace of the inexperienced transition of passenger vehicles have picked up. Electrical vehicles have now utterly taken the lead, and it’s only a matter of time earlier than we see solely electrical vehicles combating for this the oldest and most coveted automobile title on this planet,” says Søren W. Rasmussen.

That is how the votes had been distributed:

1. Renault Scenic (BEV) 329 factors together with 22 1st locations
2. BMW 5-series (BEV + Hybrid) 308 factors together with 19 1st locations
3. Peugeot 3008 (BEV + Hybrid) 197 factors together with 3 1st locations
4. Kia EV9 (BEV) 190 factors together with 7 1st locations
5. Volvo EX30 (BEV) 168 factors together with 4 1st locations
6. BYD Seal (BEV) 131 factors together with 1 1st place
7. Toyota C-HR (Hybrid) 127 factors together with 2 1st locations