Vehicle
VinFast VF 5
The small crossover built for the domestic Vietnamese market and for export to South and Southeast Asia, and the simplest vehicle in the range — a single front motor, a modest LFP pack and none of the driver-assistance hardware the larger cars carry, which removes a whole family of calibration procedures from consideration. That simplicity is the practical point: most of what goes wrong on it is twelve-volt and body electronics rather than high-voltage, and the pack itself is comparatively undemanding. The charging port and its lock actuator are the recurring complaint, presenting as a car that will not start a session with no fault in the pack at all.
Generations
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First generation 2023–present
Single motor, modest LFP pack and no assistance hardware; twelve-volt and body faults dominate over high-voltage ones.
- Body styles
- SUV
- Platform
- VinFast VF 5
- Engines
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- 37.2 kWh electric — electric · 135 Nm (100 lb-ft) · LFP
- Transmissions
- Single-speed reduction
- Drivetrain
- Front-wheel drive
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