In an age of overstatement in relation to the uptake of electric cars, Nissan has revealed plans to grow its electrified vehicle numbers, expand and develop autonomous driving systems as well as accelerate vehicle connectivity technology development in a midterm plan dubbed Nissan M.O.V.E. to 2022.
As part of the electrified vehicle expansion goal, Nissan plans on selling one million electrified vehicles, in pure electric or e-POWER hybrid form, every year by 2022.
Seven key benchmarks to achieve the Nissan M.O.V.E to 2022 plan include:
- Development of eight new pure electric vehicle models
- Launch of multiple electric vehicle models in China using different brands
- Introduction of an electric “kei” mini-vehicle in Japan
- Develop a new global crossover electric vehicle, inspired by the Nissan IMx Concept
- Electrification of new INFINITI models from 2021
- Equip 20 models in 20 markets with autonomous driving technology
- Reach 100 percent connectivity for all new Nissan, Infiniti and Datsun cars sold in key markets by the end of the plan
As part of the plan, the company is also aiming for an 8 per cent core operating profit margin and cumulative free cash flow in excess of 2.5 trillion yen.
New electric vehicles set for launch in China include a new C-segment electric vehicle, an affordable EV through the Alliance joint venture eGT New Energy Automotive and Dongfeng and two new vehicle derivatives for Venucia.
Nissan’s e-POWER technology will continue development. The technology is currently available on the Nissan Note and Nissan Serena in the Japanese market with more than 129,000 e-POWER models sold in Japan.
Up to 40 per cent of the company’s Japanese and European sales are expected to be electrified vehicles including e-POWER models by 2022 with the percentage rising to 50 per cent by 2025.
From the U.S market and Chinese market Nissan are expecting 20-30 per cent and 35-40 per cent respectively of their sales to be electrified models.
For Infiniti, electrification of new models will mean pure electric or e-POWER vehicles will be developed by 2021 with 50 per cent of global sales by 2025 being electric vehicles.
As part of the autonomous driving aspect of the new plan, Nissan has announced it will deploy ProPILOT technology in 20 models in 20 markets by 2022. One million ProPILOT-equipped vehicles are expected to be sold each year by 2022.
In terms of the connectivity aspect, 100 per cent of new Nissan, Infiniti and Datsun vehicles sold in key markets will be ‘connected cars’ thanks to the Alliance Connected Cloud.
Senior vice president, Ogi Redzic, said: “The Alliance Connected Cloud will allow for all of the Alliance companies to integrate the data management of future, current and past connected vehicles – new models and those already on the road.”
“It will support infotainment services, as well as a single communication mechanism to facilitate updates over the air for all vehicles,” he added.
The Alliance Connected Cloud is the first step in enabling full connectedness and offering mobility services such as Nissan’s robo-vehicle ride-hailing service ‘Easy Ride’ which was tested earlier this month in partnership with DeNA.
Nissan is aiming to provide commercial services directly to customers by the early 2020s.
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