Nissan declares plans to make 16 new electrified automobiles by 2026

Nissan has laid out a brand new plan to impress 16 of the 30 automobiles it produces by 2026, with the remaining utilizing inside combustion as a substitute. For these of us in North America, the corporate says it plans to launch seven new automobiles within the US and Canada, though it’s not clear what number of of these can be some sort of EV.

Nissan says the US is getting “e-POWER and plug-in hybrid fashions” — every of these makes use of a mixture of electrical energy and gas for energy. In the mean time, the one all-electric EVs Nissan is producing are the Ariya SUV and the maybe endangered (or possibly not) Leaf.

In 2021, Nissan stated it might make 23 electrified automobiles by 2030, and that 15 of these could be totally electrical, moderately than some type of hybrid car. It’s arduous to say if any of it is a step ahead from that plan, as a result of sure, 16 is larger than 15, however Nissan doesn’t explicitly say what number of of these 16 are all-battery, or certainly if any of them are. We’ve requested Nissan, nevertheless it didn’t instantly reply.

The corporate did, nonetheless, say it’s anticipating 60 p.c of its automobiles to be “electrified” by 2030, up from its 50 p.c promise by that very same deadline. It additionally upped the overall variety of electrified automobiles to 34 by the identical yr.

The corporate appears to be strolling again its “all-solid-state” battery plans for 2028. Now, it says it’s going to produce automobiles with “enhanced NCM li-ion, LFP and all-solid-state batteries,” by that deadline. You possibly can learn the full announcement right here, the place Nissan additionally goes over its future funding methods, plans for areas like Europe and Japan, and manufacturing enlargement.