According to ZF calculations, considering an average price of EUR1,000 per engine, Dacia’s 2015 engine production reached EUR436 million. Besides the 0.9 TCe Energy engine, Dacia is also producing the old eight-valve engines of 1.4 and 1.6 liters which are no longer used on Dacia car models meant for Europe.
By comparison, Dacia’s car production inched up 0.2% in 2015, to some 339,000 units, due to delays in the delivery of certain car parts in October last year.
Representatives of Group Renault Romania said Dacia’s Mechanical and Chassis factory produced approximately 436,000 engines in 2015, of which 88% went to export. In 2014, Dacia produced 332,653 engines.
Between 2012 and September 2015, Dacia produced in Mioveni a total 500,000 units of the 0.9 TCe Energy engine of 90 HP, which became one of the most popular engines from the Dacia and Renault ranges, being used on car models such as Dacia Logan, Logan MCV, Sandero, Sandero Stepway, Clio IV and Twingo.
Dacia’s Mechanical and Chassis factory is the second plant located on the industrial platform in Mioveni (along with Dacia’s carmaking plant) and the first mechanical plant within the Renault Group in the world in terms of the diversity of processes. The factory has 3,900 employees, of whom 27% are women.