Nissan and its luxury arm, Infiniti, will each introduce new electric vehicles (EVs) for the 2025 model year. The company will build the cars in America.
The Japanese automaker just released teaser images and video of two new all-electric sedans, one a Nissan and one an Infiniti. Along with the cars came news that the company would invest $500 million to turn its Canton, Mississippi, manufacturing plant into a center for EV production.
Nissan has previously announced plans to sell 23 electrified models – at least 15 EVs, the rest plug-in hybrids — globally by 2030. But the company’s only EV product at the moment, the sub-$30,000 Leaf – has a short lease on life. It’s due to be replaced by an SUV by 2025.
Last November, Nissan unveiled the next EV it plans to build. The handsome Ariya SUV will carry a much higher starting price than the Leaf, with an MSRP of nearly $46,000 – just a hair under the average cost of a new car last month. The company says it will boast a range of over 300 miles.
That’s more than they’ll say about the new models. Nissan teased the two in a short video shown during an executive presentation on the company’s EV plans.
The video showed the Nissan against a red backdrop, as a heavily shadowed digital rendering with small bright CGI lights drifting over it as if in a wind tunnel. It’s a sedan, with a thin light bar across the front and a similar lighting treatment in the rear, with the Nissan name illuminated like a taillight.
The Infiniti model is also a sedan, similar in size and shape. But it appears to have a more intricate lighting design, consisting of a waterfall of slanted slashes that illuminate in a welcome pattern on starting.
