A first Nissan-Mitsubishi electric vehicle will be released in 2016
- One part of the agreement signed in November 2013 between the Renault-Nissan group and Mitsubishi, was focused on sharing technologies on electric vehicles and sharing last generation manufacturing platforms. We knew at that time that a vehicle from the "Kei-cars" segment would provide the base for an electric version.
- We now know slightly more about this vehicle which is expected to be launched in 2016/2017 and that should have an attractive price range compared to other electric vehicles.
- Thus, Nissan and Mitsubishi hope to market the future vehicle for a price of 1.5 million yen (after government subsidies), slightly less than 11 000 Euros based on the current exchange rate. This small vehicle would be much cheaper than the current Mitsubishi i-Miev (sold at about 18 000 Euros in Japan) and the Nissan Leaf (sold just over 20 000 Euros in Japan).
- This future Nissan-Mitsubishi might replace the current Mitsubishi i-MiEV, which has sold at only 1 500 units in 2013, the future model would be positioned on the "Kei-cars" segment that currently doesn't have any electric vehicles. Let us recall that in 2013, the Japanese market for 100% electric vehicles was dominated by the Nissan Leaf (13 000 units sold) and by a Mitsubishi Minicab-MiEV (2 000 units).
- No announcement has been made about a European launch, mainly because the segment of "Kei-cars" is not present in Europe, but also because this future Nissan-Mitsubishi would be in direct competition with the potential electric version of the Renault Twingo and would compete with the current Renault Zoe.
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