{"id":15131,"date":"2022-01-27T03:40:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T08:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evglobe.com\/?p=15131"},"modified":"2022-01-30T13:20:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T18:20:09","slug":"renault-nissan-mitsubishi-ev-roadmap-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evglobe.com\/2022\/01\/27\/renault-nissan-mitsubishi-ev-roadmap-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"Renault, Nissan, Mitsubishi Confirm 35 EVs By 2030 On Five Platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"
Following a report published at the beginning of the week by Reuters<\/em>, the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance has confirmed plans for a veritable EV onslaught<\/a>. The three automakers will spend a combined \u20ac23 billion ($25.7 billion) in the next five years to bolster their electric car portfolios. The massive investment will help the trio introduce a whopping 35 purely electric vehicles by the end of the decade.<\/p>\n About 90% of these new arrivals will ride on five common EV architectures and will be sold in the vast majority of countries around the world. The most affordable ones will sit on the CMF-AEV platform, which is already in use for the Dacia Spring \u2013 Europe\u2019s cheapest electric car on sale today.<\/p>\n Even smaller EVs are planned on KEI-EV underpinnings developed for kei cars sold in Japan. The platform will be inaugurated in the coming months by Mitsubishi and Nissan with their \u201cultra-compact<\/a>\u201d models for the local market.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Up next is the LCV-EV platform, which as its name implies, it\u2019s tailored to light commercial vehicles such as the already available Nissan Town Star<\/a> and the Renault Kangoo.<\/p>\n The Renault Megane E-Tech Electric and Nissan Ariya<\/a> share the CMF-EV architecture, which will be used by 15 models by 2030. The alliance estimates it will be able to build as many as 1.5 million cars each year on this platform.<\/p>\n Then there\u2019s CMF-BEV, set to arrive in 2024 as \u201cthe most competitive compact electric platform in the world.\u201d Cars using this hardware will offer more than 400 kilometers (250 miles) of range combined with superior aerodynamics and performance. At the same time, Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi mentions costs will come down by a third and the necessary power consumption will be reduced by more than 10% compared to the Renault Zoe<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n