Editing Renault (section)

===Innovations===
*1899 Louis Renault "Driving, speed-changing mechanism and reversing gear"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US660924|title=Driving and speed changing mechanism for motor vehicles|author-link=Louis Renault (industrialist) | first = Louis | last = Renault | year=1899|access-date=7 March 2015}}</ref> Louis Renault invented a revolutionary ''direct drive'' gear<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/louis-renault/|title=Louis Renault (1877–1944)|publisher=Encyclopedia Universalis|year=1899|access-date=7 March 2015}}</ref> with no drive belt, with much better uphill performances.
*1961 – [[Renault 4]] was the first serial car with hatchback body style
*1963 – [[Renault 8]] was the first serial car with four-wheel disc brake system
*1980 – First patents for "Braking distribution device for total adherence"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://patents.google.com/patent/EP0014954A1/en|title=Braking distribution device for total adherence|year=1980|access-date=7 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://patents.google.com/patent/EP0014954B1/en|title=Braking distribution device for total adherence|year=1980|access-date=7 March 2015}}</ref>
*1982 – [[Renault Fuego]] was the first serial car with [[Remote_keyless_system | keyless entry.]]
*1988 CARMINAT, a real-time system for location and weather information. This program received European support from 1988, under the code Eureka EU-55 CARMINAT.<ref name="Carminat Renault system">{{cite web|url=http://trid.trb.org/view/1989/C/492535|title=Advanced driver information systems : the CARMINAT program|quote=The article describes the CARMINAT program's origins, its objectives and functions. It gives a progress report for the various modules made at the end of 1989| last = Sarignac | first = Alain |publisher=UC Berkeley Transportation Library|year=1989|access-date=7 March 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402180825/http://trid.trb.org/view/1989/C/492535|archive-date=2 April 2015}}</ref> These innovations for the real-time location and human-machine interfaces are included in the Renault R-link system and Carminat [[TomTom]] devices.
*2000 – [[Renault Laguna]] was the second European car to feature "keyless" entry and ignition.{{cn|date=September 2024}}