YOKOHAMA, Japan — In a push to sell less-costly, better-performing electrified vehicles, Nissan is planning a next-generation electric powertrain lineup that will debut in 2026.
The new range will streamline product development, while cutting costs and improving performance, Senior Vice President Toshihiro Hirai said during a preview of the technology at Nissan's global headquarters."For new electric vehicles, we would like to reduce diversity," said Hirai, head of Nissan's powertrain and EV engineering division.
While Nissan has not committed to bringing its e-Power hybrid setup to the North American market, Hirai suggested that the powertrain may have applications in body-on-frame vehicles, such as trucks. The reducer slows the revolutions per minute of the electric motor to a speed that will turn the axle and wheels. The increaser speeds up the revolutions of the e-Power's gasoline engine to spin the generator that recharges the system's battery. In both the EV and e-Power setups, only the electric motor provides the mechanical force that powers the cars.Nissan declined to disclose who will make the individual components.
Nissan's powertrain announcement came a week after it announced plans for a more rapid move to global electrification. Last week, it said it expects to get 44 per cent of its global sales from EV or e-Power vehicles by its 2026 fiscal year, up from an earlier vision of 40 per cent announced in 2021. Further cost reduction will come from slashing the amount of rare earth materials used in motor magnets. The upcoming motors will use less than 1 per cent of the rare earths that were used in the first-generation Nissan Leaf EV in 2011, Nissan said.
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