Renault EV Just Set Electric Range Record
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Range anxiety? Renault's Filante Record 2025 concept car drove 626 miles on one charge using a standard battery.
The Filante Record 2025 is a new electric concept car that just proved that electric vehicles can (literally) go the distance on a normal-sized battery alone when engineers are given free rein to experiment. This art deco-inspired machine drove 1,008 km (626 miles) in under 10 hours without stopping to recharge at a test track in Morocco.
The car was equipped with off-the-shelf components in Renault's inventory and travelled at speeds that mimic realistic highway driving - an average speed of 102 km/h (63 mph). Best of all, it did all this with an 87 kWh battery, the exact same size battery that you’d find in Renault’s Scenic E-Tech electric SUV, a consumer-grade EV.
The sculpted bodywork is both art-deco and futuristic, and seems to draw inspiration from fighter jets, but it isn’t just for show as the vehicle’s design is a masterclass in aerodynamics after extensive testing in the wind tunnel.
For example, the wheel fairings mount directly onto the wheels, improving airflow around the mechanical components and optimizing the air intakes to reduce the car’s drag coefficient to about 0.30. “Filante was inherently aerodynamic from the outset,” the company said. “What we did was fine-tune it to unlock its full potential and enable it to meet our performance targets.”
While the Filante Record 2025 isn’t a production car you can buy tomorrow, this experiment proves that massive range improvements are possible with existing battery technology when you optimize everything else.