How Renault drove 1,000 km at highway speeds on a single charge
Renault’s Filante Record 2025 demonstrates 1,000 km on an 87‑kWh battery at over 100 km/h, hitting 7.8 kWh/100 km. Aero and mass, not pack size, deliver range.
Renault has shown what “a thousand kilometers without charging” can look like without a supersized battery. The experimental Filante Record 2025 covered more than 1,000 km on a single charge in conditions close to highway driving: during the run, the average speed stayed above 100 km/h, with a target of roughly 110 km/h. All of this was done with an 87‑kWh battery—the same capacity used in the production Renault Scenic E‑Tech crossover.
After the finish, according to 32CARS.RU, about 11% remained in the pack, enough for roughly another hundred kilometers.
The achievement is less about “range magic” and more about energy efficiency. Renault reports around 7.8 kWh per 100 km—about 13 km per kWh—a figure that shifts the spotlight to aerodynamics and mass rather than sheer battery size.
The Filante Record 2025 was conceived as a rolling laboratory: advances in streamlining, loss reduction, and energy management are meant to migrate into production cars over time. If this philosophy reaches showrooms, long‑distance EV travel could finally hinge more on smart engineering than on ever‑larger packs.