Nissan to launch all-electric Micra

Friday, 28 January 2022

Nissan has announced the Micra will become an all-electric hatchback sometime after 2024.

Nissan is preparing to launch an all-electric Micra, based on the same EV platform as the upcoming Renault 5 hatchback.

The Micra will be manufactured in the Renault ElectriCity centre in France, using the CMF-BEV platform, but designed by Nissan.

Expect a range of around 400km, sizeable for a small car like this, but importantly, it will match internal combustion cars on price.

The next-generation Nissan Micra will be all-electric.

This will be done by carrying over around 60 per cent of parts from the CMF-B combustion platform already used by the Alliance for vehicles like the Renault Clio and Nissan Juke.

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The Micra will share its bones with the Renault 5 EV.

'This is one of most competitive segments in Europe,' Ashwani Gupta, Nissan COO, said during the Alliance 2030 presentation overnight. 'To have an electric car in this segment you must be competitive in terms of performance and in terms of price. CMF-BEV is going to be very competitive.'

Renault CEO, Luca de Me, added that the platform is a “gamechanger” for keeping costs down, saying they were 33 per cent lower than those for the Renault Zoe platform.

It will power 250,000 cars per year from 2026 across four brands – Renault, Nissan, Dacia and Alpine. This is probably European figures, with global production likely to be quite a lot higher.

The presentation confirmed the first CMF-BEV vehicle will launch in 2024, which is a year after Renault originally said we could expect to see the Renault 5 hatch.

Renault and Nissan also discussed the CMF-EV platform, which will be their primary EV architecture. It is currently set to debut in the Nissan Ariya SUV, with the Renault Megane E-Tech Electric following soon after.

The two brands say the CMF-EV platform is a “benchmark platform,” supporting more than 15 models coming from the Alliance by 2030. Up to 1.5 million cars per year will be produced on this platform around the world.

The Alliance is also working with common partners to achieve real scale and affordability, enabling to reduce battery costs by 50 per cent in 2026 and 65 per cent by 2028.

At this point, solid-state batteries should be in mass production, bringing costs down to under US$100 per kWh.

As for more details on the electric Micra, we'll have to wait a few more years on that. When Renault releases information on the Renault 5, we can use that information to guess at what the Micra will be like.