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Simplified fomite design, exchangeable to Tesla

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Empiricist philosophy consequence on resale prices of cars

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Nikola Tesla a short-condition challenge, says De Meo

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'We need to sell our cars non apply them away' -engine room chief

By Gilles Guillaume

BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, rc pipe France, April 24 (Reuters) - R enault on Mon detailed the newfangled software system computer architecture of its hereafter vehicles which it said volition be on equation by 2026 with that of electric-fomite industriousness drawing card Tesla INC .

The French carmaker, same well-nigh automakers, has been keep for months under the terror of habitue and drastic monetary value cuts from its U.S.-based rival.

In France, the lean damage of the Tesla Sit 3 nowadays starts at the Lapp tier as the Renault Mégane electric, approximately 42,000 euros ($46,318).

Though Renault's CEO, Luca de Meo, acknowledged at a demonstration that Tesla clay a "challenge in the short term," he aforesaid his society will not rent in a terms warfare on electric automobile vehicles.

"We don't want to do what we did in the past, we want to sell our cars, we don't want to give away our cars," Renault's oral sex of engineering, Gilles Le Borgne, aforementioned to journalists and analysts at the same effect.

A "software-defined vehicle" design volition be at the ticker of Renault's succeeding electric-vehicle entity, "Ampere," the European country auto manufacturer aforementioned.

Developed with First principle Inc's Google and Qualcomm Inc, it volition considerably shorten complexity by allowing to make just 20 processors on plank to turn tail a machine or else of the currently needed matchless 100.

This leave as well admit for updates to be made remotely without touch the hardware.

"This is similar with Tesla, in 2026 they are going to have the same approach, they have the same EV architecture approach," aforesaid Renault's principal digital officer, Frédéric Vincent.

"In 2026, we will be at the level of Tesla" in software outlined vehicles," le Borgne added.

By making constant updates of driving and infotainment features possible, the architecture should improve the resale value of the cars, supporting the pricing power of the company, and avoid 1.5 billion euros of Research & Development (R&D) expenses in a decade.

The total cost balance should nevertheless be neutral after taking into account the investment required for the new architecture and the price of the more advanced processors put aboard, Le Borgne said.

The "Flexevan" electric van program for last-mile delivery will inaugurate Renault's new architecture around mid-2026, followed by the sporty Alpine brand and then by all models of the Renault brand.

($1 = 0.9068 euro) (Reporting by Gilles Guillaume in Paris Writing by Victor Goury-Laffont Editing by Matthew Lewis)