► Micra replacement will be an EV► Supermini will use the CMF B-EV platform
► Confirmed by Nissan bosses in 2022
Nissan has confirmed that an all-new supermini-sized EV is to join its European range in the years to come, sitting below its Leaf and Ariya EVs.
While the name of the new supermini isn’t confirmed yet, Nissan says it will replace the Micra in the brand’s range – a name that’s been in use since 1982.
During the 2022 Alliance digital conference, announcing more details on the Alliance 2030 electrification plans for Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi, Nissan’s COO Ashwani Gupta teased images of the new car. From the images, we can see ring-like DRLs front and back, a profile with a floating roof and what looks to be a five-door configuration.
The key to this is the new CMF-B EV platform announced by the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance. It’s going to underpin the new Renault 5 EV, as well as what results from the ‘4Ever’ teasers laid out by the Renault brand. ‘CMF-B EV is the very first time an EV can compete with an ICE car on price,’ Renault boss Luca De Meo tells the world during the 2022 Alliance digital conference at the end of January 2022.
‘This all-new model will be designed by Nissan and engineered and manufactured by Renault using our new common platform, maximizing the use of our Alliance assets,’ adds Gupta.
More details, including its name, are due to be revealed in time. But for now, we’ll have to wait and see.
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