Nissan rumoured to build an electric sportscar?

The automotive market is now clamouring with automaker trying to pump out electric sportscar such as Audi with their R8 and Mercedes with their SLS AMG. Nissan could be next as sources close to the company revealed the possibility of Nissan producing an electric sportscar.

Nothing else has been confirmed, thus we could see the Japanese company using body structures from its current line-up such as the 370Z. This would be a relatively good choice as it is a lightweight car but unfortunately lacks in size which has to house the unconfirmed amount of batteries.

We have to remember that Nissan would most likely use the platform of the Leaf with an electric motor producing slightly more juice. Thus anything in that size would do this new sports car well. We could also see the use of its premium brand Infiniti and some have been suggesting the use of cars like the hybrid concept Essence seen in 2009.

This could be pure speculation but as the old saying goes, where there’s smoke, there’s Nissan’s CEO Carlos Goshn trying to make Nissan a leader in the automotive industry.


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Jacob Alexander

Jacob Mathew Alexander has been a motoring nut for as far as he can remember and has recently turned his passion into writing. After spending some time in the same industry in the UK, Jacob's work is from a slightly different perspective.

 

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  • when you drive a super sport car, you don’t worry paying for expensive petrol and road tax, you know what they worry? Which girl to pick up

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  • good it would be interesting to see it roll out one day :-)

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  • Hurm is stoopid thumb down if agree on Jul 22, 2010 at 9:06 am

    I think its a good idea..EV rules!!!

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  • captain_d on Jul 22, 2010 at 9:14 am

    yeah..go green.

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  • They already have a sportscar for boy racers that will down shift for you, and a supercar that will drive itself for rich dweebs who can’t drive for shit, I can totally see them adding an electric sports car to the lineup!

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  • squawk on Jul 22, 2010 at 10:26 am

    Put the motors in all 4 wheels and you’ll get space in the front and back for batteries.

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  • Nice! I can see them benchmarking against a Tesla Roadster S. Pretty sure they will create an entirely new model for this.

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  • ricky on Jul 22, 2010 at 2:25 pm

    louis…to the c to the n…

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  • Don’t use the fairladyZ platform, make a new model haha, that would be interesting …

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  • 1kereta on Jul 22, 2010 at 9:43 pm

    hope to see EV version of GTR… quiet, but really fast and furious!

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  • rexis on Jul 23, 2010 at 8:03 am

    Yay, Sunny, prove it to Toy and Hondy.

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  • paultan fan on Jul 27, 2010 at 11:57 am

    yeahh nissan EV’s :-)

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