Renault Scenic Imaginative and prescient unveiled | CarExpert

The Renault Scenic Imaginative and prescient is eye-catching on two fronts: its edgy design, and its hydrogen gas cell plug-in hybrid drivetrain.

So far as the design goes, the Scenic Imaginative and prescient embodies the corporate’s Nouvelle Imprecise (or New Wave) design philosophy, and consists of loads of sharp, daring creases.

In accordance with the corporate, the outside of the Scenic Imaginative and prescient previews a brand new manufacturing “household mannequin” due in 2024.

Reviews point out “90 per cent” of the design will carry by to the ultimate automotive, though we anticipate one main change: the rear-hinged (or suicide) rear doorways might be changed by standard front-hinged items.

The minimalist cabin is claimed to be a “forward-looking examine of future Renault interiors”.

Whereas the manufacturing Scenic is predicted to sit down above the Megane E-Tech within the firm’s EV vary, the idea has a novel hydrogen gas cell range-extender plug-in hybrid setup dubbed H2-Tech.

It encompasses a 160kW electrical motor driving the entrance wheels. The motor hooked as much as a small-ish 40kWh battery pack, and an underfloor 16kW hydrogen gas cell system.

The gas cell system acts a variety extender that prices the battery pack quite than driving the wheels. This format is just like setup utilized by the now-departed Holden Volt and BMW i3 Rex, though these two automobiles employed a small petrol engine to recharge its batteries.

Renault claims the Scenic Imaginative and prescient can journey 800km on a full cost, and with just one fast 5 minute hydrogen refuelling cease.

The automaker’s representatives instructed Autocar the H2-Tech drivetrain received’t go into manufacturing till the 2030s, and can kind a part of the agency’s push to be carbon impartial in Europe by 2040, and globally by 2050.

The Scenic Imaginative and prescient measures 4490mm lengthy, 1900mm extensive, 1590mm tall, and rides on a 2835mm wheelbase.

That’s about midway between the 4.41m Scenic and 4.63m Grand Scenic, each of which went out of manufacturing this 12 months.

In accordance with Renault, the 70 per cent of the Scenic Imaginative and prescient is produced from recycled supplies, and 95 per cent of the automotive could be recycled, together with the batteries.

The idea’s ground is produced from the recycled plastics, the seats are clad in “low carbon” recycled polyester, and the carbon-fibre hydrogen tank is produced from recycled paper waste.

Some components are additionally produced from carbon recycled from the aeronautical business.

The idea rides on 235/45 tyres with 21-inch alloy wheels sporting an fascinating spoke design.

This isn’t the primary time Renault has reused one in all its well-known folks mover names on a crossover-ish car, with the large daddy Espace morphing into an amalgam of the 2 physique sorts when it was redesigned in 2015.

Launched in 1996, the Scenic — initially the Megane Scenic — has been the corporate’s volume-selling small folks mover, and competed with the likes of the Opel Zafira and Citroen C4 Picasso.