The Japanese automobile concern Nissan has announced two new electric vehicles that will enter the market under the Nissan and Infiniti brands, the company’s press service reports. The presentation is scheduled for 2025.
The report said Nissan will invest $500 million to upgrade production at its US assembly plant in Canton, Mississippi, to produce new models. The company has already invested $13.5 billion in its manufacturing facilities in the US. Part of the funds will go to retraining and advanced training of workers, the company stressed.
The new vehicles are part of the Nissan Ambition 2030 program, which includes 23 new models for the Nissan and Infiniti brands – 15 of them will be all-electric and 8 more hybrid. According to Nissan’s plans, 40% of sales in the US in the future will come from “battery” cars.
At the end of January, it became known that the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi automobile alliance intends to invest 23 billion euros in the development of electric vehicle technologies over five years. Companies have already invested more than €10 billion in transport electrification. In the main markets – Europe, Japan, the USA, China – 15 factories of the alliance already produce parts, engines and batteries for ten models of electric vehicles, the report said. Investments are planned over the next five years, which will allow the creation of 35 new models of electric vehicles by 2030.