Nissan will introduce an all-electric successor to its Micra small car, which will be based on a new electric vehicle platform. The new platform will also be used in the future Renault 5 model. The new Micra electric car will be designed by Nissan and will be built by alliance partner Renault, who will manufacture it at the Renault ElectriCity plant network located in Douai, France.

The new battery-electric hatchback will use the Renault-Nissan alliance's new CMF-BEV platform, which alliance leaders announced Thursday as they unveiled a joint $23 billion deal. euro ($26 billion) company electrification plan. Nissan has said that the electric Micra will match the price of cars with internal combustion engines.


 "This is one of the most competitive segments in Europe," Nissan COO (Chief Operating Officer) Ashwani Gupta said at the launch. - "To have an electric car in this segment, you have to be competitive in terms of performance and price. The CMF-BEV will be a very competitive automotive platform. The said platform has more than 60 percent of parts "taken" from the CMF-B internal combustion engine car platform used in various cars of the joint Nissan-Renault alliance, such as the Renault Clio and Nissan Juke.

Renault CEO Luca de Me said that the new car platform is designed for vehicles with a length between 3900 mm and 4200 mm, the platform will have enough space for an electric car battery with a capacity of slightly more than 50 kilowatt hours, so the electric cars based on the new platform will be it is possible to drive up to 400 km. distance

He described the EV platform as a "fundamental game-changer" for reducing costs, which he said were 33 percent lower than the Renault Zoe small car platform. "It's the best compact electric vehicle platform in the world," he said.


The CMF-BEV platform will be used by the Renault, Nissan, Dacia and Alpine brands and will be based on more than 250,000 vehicles per year in the future, according to a slide used to introduce the new platform. The relatively small number of cars indicates that the CMF-BEV will be used only in the European market.

The first car to use the CMF-BEV platform will be introduced in 2024, but Renault-Nissan executives present at the launch of the new platform did not say in which car the innovation will be integrated. Interestingly, Renault previously said that the company's retro-styled Renault 5 would be launched in 2023, but a statement released on Thursday said that the car's launch date has been pushed back.

According to JATO Dynamics, Nissan has seen a bad trend in recent years: demand for the company's Micra model has declined, and sales of the small hatchback in Europe fell 9 percent last year (to 34,847 units sold). The Micra is currently manufactured at the Renault plant in Flints, France. The current version of the Micra began production in 2017, when Renault predicted that about 132 thousand units would be assembled per year. cars.