Groupe Renault - 2019 Universal Registration Document

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few minutes, as opposed to one hour in its absence. Groupe Renault is currently the only carmaker to offer this technical solution to firefighters. The Rescue Code provides firefighters with another tool enabling them to carry out extrication maneuvers more quickly and effectively. It is a QR code that the customer can affix on the windshield or rear window. It allows firefighters to access the damaged vehicle’s decision support sheet on the rescue site, thanks to a free application co-developed by a start-up, the French fire department and Renault. It includes information for each model, allowing firefighters to perform their extrication maneuvers safely for themselves and the victims. Other measures implemented in 2019 included: studies on the best position for the service plug and fireman P access on future electric and hybrid vehicles in the Renault range; drawing up design rules for vehicle projects taking into account P the interventions of the emergency services; consideration by engineering of the first rules of design relating to P emergency firefighter interventions on our hybrid and electric vehicles; organization of the annual Renault Tertiary Road Safety Seminar P at the Technocentre, attended by 300 firefighters and Renault engineers. Technical exchanges with the engineering professions; participation in different French safety trade shows in 2019: P Secours Expo, the annual French firefighters’ congress; active participation in the consideration by Euro NCAP of fire P service interventions after accidents to define the new ratings for vehicles from 2020 and plan the future protocol for 2022; construction of a multi-energy training vehicle in collaboration P with the prototype construction center, based on a KANGOO, to increase firefighter recognition of alternative energy vehicles. This vehicle is designed to be lent to firefighters for their training. The first firefighters to benefit are those in the Auvergne Rhône Alpes region. 2.2.2.2 The vehicle of the future will be zero emission, communicative and driverless. The communicating vehicle will be connected with other vehicles, with the road and with the environment. Vehicles will share information regarding their location, speed and expected itinerary, etc . They will also act as sensors for other vehicles, indicating traffic, road issues, etc . The information obtained will be used first and foremost to provide safety services (incident warnings for onward route, roads or areas with specific hazards, etc. ) as well as traffic services (congestion, alternative real-time itineraries, etc. ). Vehicle autonomy is being phased in, starting with partial or conditional autonomy depending on the driving situations envisaged. Integrating new technologies

It was also a major partner for the first Latin-American Extraction Challenge, held from October 9 to 11 in Medellin, Colombia, which brought together nine teams from four countries, and welcomed firefighters from other Latin American countries as observers. The Renault Sofasa plant in Medellin provided 11 recent vehicles for this challenge. Groupe Renault also actively participated in firefighter road rescue training in 10 different French départements and European countries (Croatia, Finland, Spain, Germany, Portugal) by providing recent vehicles for extraction training and by offering theoretical training sessions of technical information on new generation vehicles. The beneficiaries are road rescue trainers as well as operational command chain officers. Groupe Renault also contributes to improving road rescue through partnership actions with all extraction equipment suppliers. Consideration of technological developments and electrical risks Vehicles are equipped with increasingly efficient safety systems, but they also pack in more technologies that complicate the work of emergency services. Groupe Renault’s commitment to improving road safety can also be seen in technical and R&D collaborations, which take into account these new technological risks and include vehicle extrication and fire extinguishing tests on vehicles that use new energy sources. The Group, regularly donates several hundred latest-generation vehicles for training the fire service in highway rescue. The implemented strategy focuses on four factors: improving firefighters’ knowledge of the Group’s vehicles; P acknowledgment of constraints experienced by firefighters during P their work by engineers and designers working on new products; implementation of research and innovation projects; P technical modification to vehicles. P Each new vehicle model in the range includes a decision support form (format ISO 17840) designed for operational firefighters, as well as an ERG (emergency response guide) (format ISO 17840) for alternative energy models. Emergency services needs are taken into account from the design stage of vehicles. As an example, fireman access is already a feature of the ZOE, ZOE Long Range, KANGOO Z.E. Long Range and MASTER Z.E. It will be fitted on all future electric and hybrid vehicles of the range. Fireman access is a heat-fusible part (plastic that melts in heat) placed on the electric vehicle chassis. In the event of malicious fire, it allows firefighters to access the 400 volt battery below with their fire hose. The aim is to drown the battery by filling it with water, which is the only way to turn off a lithium ion battery quickly and permanently. This allows firefighters to extinguish the fire in only a

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