{"id":21564,"date":"2022-05-06T00:04:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T04:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=21564"},"modified":"2022-05-06T00:04:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T04:04:13","slug":"nismo-ev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=21564","title":{"rendered":"Nissan will put Nismo to work on high-performance EVs | Autoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Nissan<\/a> drawing combustion engine development to a close<\/a>, one question mark that’s been lingering is what the company plans to do with Nismo. For nearly 40 years the company’s in-house motorsports<\/a> and tuning shop has churned out some of the wildest street-legal engines in the world. Currently, it’s responsible for the 600-horsepower Nissan GT-R Nismo<\/a>, heritage parts<\/a> for now-classic Skyline GT-Rs, and handling packages<\/a> on some of the company’s more mundane offerings.<\/p>\n

However, Nismo will not go quietly into that EV night, according to Top Gear<\/em><\/a>. “It’s not a gimmick,” Nissan’s European chairperson Guillaume Cartier told the British outlet at a recent Formula E race. “To use an English expression, it\u2019s not lipstick on a pig.”<\/p>\n

Nissan plans to spend $17.7 billion introducing 23 electrified cars<\/a> in the next five years, with 15 of them running solely on battery<\/a> juice. Cartier says the Yokohama-based company is in the process of determining which of these vehicles would be best suited for the Nismo treatment. Among the concepts Nissan has shown, one called the Max-Out is an AWD, open-top, EV sports car<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cartier says the goal is to “bring performance,” citing “specific suspension and powertrain.” Using the example of the upcoming Ariya, he told Top Gear<\/a><\/em> that it doesn’t just mean a bigger battery. The Ariya already has a performance model, the dual-motor Platinum+ boasting 389 horsepower and all-wheel-drive, which is a 151-horse<\/span> bump over the front-wheel-drive’s 238. “So we need to go higher that that,” Cartier explained.<\/p>\n

Other companies have also hinted at performance sub brands for electric cars<\/a>, whether it’s all-new like Volkswagen’s GTX<\/a> line or piggy-backing on an existing line like Hyundai’s electric N car<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s up to each brand to see if they can forge a unique path. Nismo has quite a bit of heritage and capital built up with enthusiasts. It’ll be interesting to see if Nissan can translate that into a new era of performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With Nissan drawing combustion engine development to a close, one question mark that’s been lingering is what the company plans to do with Nismo. For nearly 40 years the company’s in-house motorsports and tuning shop has churned out some of the wildest street-legal engines in the world. Currently, it’s responsible for the 600-horsepower Nissan GT-R […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}