Renault Group’s electric vehicles (EV) unit Ampere is to launch seven models by 2031, including a city car called the Legend priced at under £17,000.

The Legend will be built at its Renault's factory in Slovenia from 2026 and will offer best-in-class efficiency with energy consumption of 10 kilowatt-hours per 100 km, improving on the 15 kWh/100km of most small BEVs currently available. Renault's factory in Slovenia, already builds battery-electric and combustion engine versions of the Twingo minicar.

Ampere's lineup will also include the Megane E-Tech (pictured), launched last year; the Scenic E-Tech, which goes on sale early next year; the forthcoming Renault 5 to be revealed early next year; and the Renault 4 to be launched in 2025.

CFO Thierry Pieton said Renault which is currently the third largest EV manufacturer in Europe in 2022, behind Tesla and Volkswagen aimed to achieve price parity of smaller models with its combustion engine cars in the next two years and larger ones by 2027-28.

"We want to democratise EVs in Europe. We will reduce our costs to lower our prices, while improving our margins at the same time,” he said.