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Report: Nissan Hopes to Cut EV Price 20% through Platform Sharing
Nissan Motor Co. hopes that a plan to share a common electric vehicle platform with partners Renault and Mitsubishi Motors will enable it to sell a future EV model for about 2 million yen ($17,000).
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Nissan Motor Co. hopes that a plan to share a common electric vehicle platform with partners Renault and Mitsubishi Motors will enable it to sell a future EV model for about 2 million yen ($17,000).
That price would be more than 20% below that of the Nissan Leaf EV. It also would largely erase the price gap between EVs and comparable piston-powered vehicles, The Nikkei says.
Nissan, Renault and their just-added MMC partner plan by 2018 to build their next-generation EVs on the same platform but with different exterior body styles. The cars also will lower costs by sharing batteries, motors and power control systems.
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