Green NCAP granted the Dacia Spring five stars and the title of Best Electric Vehicle of 2022, a significant honor for the tiny electric city car from Renault's Romanian subsidiary. Green NCAP is the environmentally friendly branch of EuroNCAP, an independent group entrusted with evaluating the safety of new cars marketed in Europe. Green NCAP, unlike EuroNCAP, does not submit automobiles to crash tests and evaluation tests of their safety-focused ADAS systems but instead conducts an eco-audit of new models, awarding them from zero to five stars based on how environmentally friendly they are.
Each vehicle is tested and qualified in three separate categories: the "Clean Air Index," the "Energy Efficiency Index," and the "Greenhouse Gas Index." Typically, all new electric vehicles assessed receive excellent ratings in all three areas, translating to five stars. However, in the case of the Dacia Spring, its scores have been genuinely remarkable in addition to the five stars.
Thus, Dacia's modest electric urban vehicle received a 10/10 in clean air (characteristic of all new electric cars). Still, it also received a 10 in "greenhouse gases" and a 9.8 in efficiency, which is unusual. As a result, the average of the three scores was 9.9 out of 10.
