It’s going to invest $500 million into the Canton assembly plant to manufacture two electric vehicles from 2025. One will carry the Nissan badge while the other will be a more upscale Infiniti version. Doing so will not only preserve almost 2,000 jobs, but the employees are going to receive additional training to be ready for the EV duo’s arrival in roughly three years’ time.

Judging by the teasers released, both will be approximately the same car, but with the Infiniti likely more luxurious to fit its premium brand image. Surprisingly, the two EVs don’t seem to be SUVs, but rather sleek sedans or more practical five-door liftbacks. As expected from the new era of zero-emission cars, the two will have LED light bars at both the front and rear.

The coupe-like sloping roofline should give the Nissan and Infiniti EVs an attractive side profile. The fact they’re not crossovers is a bit puzzling since just about everyone knows more and more people are ditching sedans. Details about the two products due to be built in Minnesota have not been disclosed, which isn’t a surprise since they won’t be launched until the middle of the decade.

The new arrivals are part of a greater EV agenda Nissan is working on, with 15 purely electric cars scheduled to arrive by 2030. An additional eight will feature a hybrid powertrain and are also programmed to hit the streets in the next eight years. By the end of the decade, the company aims to have 40% of its annual sales in the US represented by vehicles without a combustion engine.

Meanwhile, the Canton factory where the two cars will be made is celebrating its 19^th anniversary this year. At this plant, Nissan puts together the Altima, Frontier, Titan, and Titan XD. It has assembled almost five million vehicles and currently employs approximately 5,000 people. The facility has an annual production capacity of 410,000 vehicles.

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While Nissan has promised to launch 15 fully electric vehicles and an additional eight plug-in hybrids by 2030, Infiniti isn’t saying how many eco-friendly models it will introduce in this interval. However, teaser images give us an idea of what to expect from the Acura rival, including an SUV judging by the higher ride height. The one closer to the camera is apparently a slinky four-door coupe while the vehicle in the middle seems to be smaller, perhaps a two-seater.

At the beginning of the week, Nissan did say some of the new EVs will be badged as Infiniti models thanks to a massive investment of almost $18 billion that will be made in the next five years. It would make sense for the already confirmed solid-state battery tech to be offered in an Infiniti given the premium it commands over an equivalent Nissan. The first electric car to use the next-gen batteries will arrive in 2028.

Solid-state batteries are a big deal considering Nissan says they’ll reduce the time it takes to charge an EV by about a third. In addition, it will also help the automaker drastically cut production costs to $75 / kWh by 2028 before dropping furthermore to $65 / kWh in the next years. The company is confident the costs to produce an electric car will sooner or later match those of a combustion-engined one.

As for these three electric Infinitis with their full-width LED light bars at the front and rear, the teaser images are giving us the impression we are looking at concept cars rather than production models. If our assumption is correct, don’t expect the road-going models to arrive before the middle of the decade since the concepts will be out first, and then the final versions will follow probably a couple of years later.

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