In November 2021, as part of an announcement that it would invest $17.6 billion in developing new EV and battery technology, Nissan will launch four electric vehicles with interesting names such as Chill-Out, Surf-Out, Hang-Out and Max-Out. I shared a rendering of the electric car concept.
Nissan has finally shown a physical version of one of these concepts, the Nissan Maxout EV Convertible, ahead of the Nissan Futures event, which kicks off in Yokohama, Japan on February 4. According to the company, the event, which runs through March 4, aims to showcase how Nissan is shaping the future of sustainable mobility and innovative design.
Not much is known about the Nissan Maxout, other than what we can see and collect and the vaguely ambitious description Nissan provides.
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The vehicle is a two-seater convertible that the company said was created around the “basic concept of becoming one with the car.” I’m not sure what that means exactly.this is some kind of Avatar Is it the Na’vi queuing situation, or is it just a play on words, could the design and performance of this theoretical vehicle make drivers feel as if they were one?
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Concepts are often design exercises to spark creativity within a company. These concepts may offer a glimpse of which design path automakers might take. In other words, elements of the Nissan Max-Out could hit the market.
Nissan GT-R fans will be paying attention. There is also a sign that the successor to the GT-R will come, and it will be electrified. Nismo CEO Takao Katagiri said in an Autocar interview in December 2022 that Nissan is developing a new sports car that will be available in hybrid or other electric formats. It will be sold first in Japan, followed by North America, Europe and the UK.
First introduced in November 2021, Nissan’s Ambition 2030 plan aims to electrify half of its portfolio and release 15 new EVs by the end of 2010.
At the time, the company said it would develop 23 electrified vehicles by 2030, with 20 of them on the market by 2026. The company said it wants 75% of its portfolio in Europe to be either hybrid, plug-in hybrid or battery electric. , 55% in Japan and 40% in the US and China by 2030.
