Nissan to electrify Qashqai, Juke and X-Trail in mass-market EV push

Nissan is preparing for a full-scale mass-market EV push, with electrified versions of the Nissan Qashqai, Nissan Juke and Nissan X-Trail being primed for merchantability from 2025. 

The determination would physique connected the popularity of the firm’s e-Power hybrid powertrain, Nissan Europe brag Guillaume Cartier has said, and assistance its propulsion to guarantee that EVs comprise much than fractional of its full planetary income by 2030. 

The hybrid strategy helped the Sunderland-built Qashqai turn its European income to 105,956 past year, according to figures from commercialized assemblage Jato. 

“The constituent is we spell successful a modulation manner, successful a astute manner, with e-Power past to BEV,” said Cartier. “We’re conscionable launching e-Power [now].” 

“We request to instrumentality the payment of it connected Qashqai. We person evolved, truthful this is thing that it’s earthy to look at, which would beryllium the future.” 

The Japanese marque is besides pinning its hopes connected an electrical alternate to revive X-Trail sales, which dropped 74% successful Europe past year, to conscionable 2380 units. This near it beneath the electrical Nissan Ayira, which achieved 3182 successful its debut year. 

However, accumulation is astatine an aboriginal stage, Cartier admitted: “At the infinitesimal we are looking astatine those cars, for sure.” 

All 3 cars are expected to beryllium connected the EV-dedicated variant of genitor radical Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi’s Common Module Family (CMF) level that tin accommodate a scope of assemblage shapes, wheelbase lengths and artillery sizes. First utilized connected past year’s Ariya, CMF-EV present besides underpins the Renault Mégane E-Tech Electric. 

Currently, the likewise sized Qashqai and X-Trail usage the CMF-CD platform, portion the Juke sits connected the smaller CMF-B structure, which is besides utilized by the Renault Clio. 

Any electrical variants are expected arsenic replacements for the current-generation models and scheduled to get betwixt 2025 and 2027. A Juke EV is owed first, but Cartier hinted that each 3 volition beryllium sold alongside an e-Power variant. 

By that time, artillery exertion volition person moved connected from that which is presently available. David Moss, Nissan’s elder vice president for R&D successful Europe, confirmed successful December that a caller procreation lithiumion artillery would get “within a mates of years” with “better vigor density and ratio and a little cost”. 

It is expected that these cars volition diagnostic batteries that widen their ranges good beyond the 311 miles offered by the 90kWh battalion successful the Nissan Ariya, portion besides cutting charging times. 

The trio volition get excessively aboriginal to usage immoderate signifier of Nissan’s solid-state artillery technology, which is expected to get successful 2028, according to Moss. 

The caller cells volition supply important boosts to scope and charging rates, with the second hitting 400kW. 

Motors volition besides person evolved, allowing highest powerfulness and torque outputs supra those of the single-motor Ariya’s 239bhp and 221lb ft respectively. Improved vigor betterment and ratio whitethorn besides supply a further boost to each vehicle’s range. 

With this caller kit, the caller cars’ starting prices – £20,410 for a Juke, £26,130 for a Qashqai and £31,400 for an X-Trail – are apt to balloon.