French-Japanese group reveals how it will spend $36 billion over just the next five years
Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance has revealed it plans to pull the drapes off an incredible 35 new all-electric vehicles by 2030 as part of radical plans to invest €23 billion ($A36b) in all-electric cars.
Making the announcement as part of a two-hour media presentation, the Alliance explained how its expansions will rely on just five common platforms that will end up underpinning 90 per cent of the 35 EVs it plans to launch.
As well as grand plans for further expansion into pure-electric vehicles, the car-making giant revealed how Mitsubishi would soon introduce two new vehicles in 2023. These will include an all-new replacement for the small ASX, which is likely to share much with the Renault Captur, plus another unnamed vehicle.
Nissan, meanwhile, is primed to introduce 23 electrified models by 2030, one of which will be the all-new pure-electric replacement for the Micra supermini that was previewed as part of the presentation.
The other Nissan likely to land soon will be a new LEAF successor.
Finally, Renault will begin producing the R5 before the end of 2022, as well as the R4 SUV and van spin-off in 2024. The five-seat Austral set to be revealed in the matter of weeks will also be joined by a larger seven-seat SUV.
The good news is, as well as the rush of new models across the three brands the alliance will make its new models more affordable.
Behind the cost cuts are the aforementioned platform and component sharing plus radical plans that will see the price of the batteries it uses fall by 50 per cent in 2026 and 65 per cent by 2028.
It’s in 2028 that the group plan to roll-out its next-gen solid-state batteries that are currently being developed by Nissan. The new cells are claimed to offer double the energy density of current lithium-ion cells with charging times reduced to one-third over current tech.
Other innovations set to be introduced is a huge increase in connectivity, with the Alliance keen to increase the number of cars connected to its Alliance Cloud from three million cars today to five million per year by 2026.
Greater software sharing, thanks to widespread use of Google’s automotive operating system, will occur on a larger scale, while in 2025 the Alliance will debut its first ‘software-defined’ vehicle will make its debut.
Employing powerful chips with processing power well beyond today’s in-car tech, the advantage of its next-gen tech is it will be capable of being able to ‘unbundle software from hardware’ that will allow the group to reduce development time of its digital services from one year to just one week.
Finally, Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi bosses predict that by 2026 more than 45 vehicles will be available with its next-gen autonomous driving systems, which will account for more than 10 million driverless cars out on the road globally.
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