Nissan is working on a successor to the Micra. That will be an electric car, which shares its platform with the fully electric retro Renault 5.
The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance will reveal more details about its future on Thursday. There is at least one striking announcement: the Nissan Micra will receive an electric successor on the CMF-B-EV base on which the new Renault 5 is also enthroned. That rumor came out earlier this week and is now confirmed by the alliance.
It is not yet known when the ‘new Micra’ will be on the market, but since the Renault 5 is planned for 2024, it is possible that the Micra successor will also appear in that year. According to Nissan, despite the basis developed by Renault, it will be a car that will receive a Nissan design. The above teaser photo already gives a vague picture of the car, so we may get to see a study model very soon. What we already know is that it is built by Renault, in Renault’s ‘ElectriCity’. This is a combination of the factories in the northern French towns of Douai, Maubeuge and Ruitz.
So logically we can no longer expect a new Nissan Micra with fuel engines, since the CMF-B-EV base is only intended for electric cars. It also immediately raises the question of what happens to the other sister model of the Micra in that case: the Clio. According to Renault, the Renault 5 will mainly be a successor to the Zoe, but the new 5 may also have to replace the Clio. In any case, count on a 136 hp electric motor and a range of up to 400 kilometers for the Renault 5 and the Nissan ‘Micra’. Incidentally, there is much more electric news in the barrel at Nissan in the coming years.
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