Kangoo best-selling EV in its segment since 2011, says Renault

The first EV to earn the title of International Van of The Year in 2011, the Renault Kangoo is the segment’s all-time best-selling model, says Renault.

It adds the Maubeuge factory in northern France has produced more than 90,000 Renault Kangoo and 10,000 partners’ fully electric vehicles since 2011.

Since its launch, the model has served as an ideal testing ground for the brand’s EVs, Renault explains.

While Renault began exploring the idea of electric vans in 1985 with an EV version of the Renault Express running on nickel-zinc batteries, this ambition became a reality in the early 2000s with the Renault Kangoo.

The Kangoo was available in electric (Kangoo Electri’cité) and hybrid (Kangoo Elect’road) versions as early as 2002.

These small-scale runs helped the brand build up real expertise in EV design, industrialisation, and especially maintenance, says Renault. “At the time, a team of flying doctors would travel out to each customer to analyse, maintain, and improve those models already in circulation.”

In 2011, when it was marketed to the public, the Renault Kangoo Z.E became the first full-electric vehicle to earn the title of ‘International Van of The Year’, thereby creating a segment for electric vans.

Renault now has a new, high-performance Kangoo E-Tech electric range.

The Kangoo is available in an E-Tech electric version for both business and private customers, in two lengths, with a floor cab, van or passenger car, and can be customised ad infinitum thanks to more than 350 Renault Pro+ certified converters, the company adds.

Specialising in eco-friendly digital services, TIBCO is the owner of the 90,000^th electric Renault Kangoo and is renewing its fleet of 960 vehicles with 50% electric models, including 198 Renault Zoe, 29 Kangoo E-Tech electric, and 28 Megane E-Tech electric.

Strong EV-centred partnerships with companies like TIBCO are very important because they help Renault to develop further EV expertise, says Renault.

located in Hauts-de-France (Northern France), has been making Kangoo for the entire world.

Along with the sites in Douai and Ruitz, Renault’s Maubeuge factory forms the new ElectriCity hub through which Renault plans to produce 480,000 EVs annually by 2025.

As part of its efforts to industrialise the latest passenger and utility versions of the new Kangoo, as well as vehicles by partners Mercedes and Nissan, Renault has invested 450 million euros in the plant and installed a new battery assembly workshop.

The electric motor and chargers on the new electric Kangoo E-Tech are all made at Renault’s Cléon plant in Normandy (north-west of Paris).

To support the success of the Renault Kangoo in its various versions and the industrialisation of the future electric Renault 4, the Maubeuge plant has confirmed a first wave of recruitment of 200 permanent employees in 2023.

These recruitments are part of the social agreement “for the future of Renault sites in the Hauts de France” signed by all the trade unions on June 8, 2021, at the time of the creation of the ElectriCity industrial cluster. A total of 350 direct jobs have been announced for the site by 2024.

The Maubeuge factory employs 2500.