EV option coming for Nissan JUKE, QASHQAI and X-TRAIL

The first pure-electric versions of the Nissan JUKE, QASHQAI and X-TRAIL will be released between 2025 and 2027, the Japanese car-maker has told Autocar.

Set to be introduced alongside the company’s new e-POWER hybrid powertrains, the all-new battery-electric SUV options will help Nissan comply with the complete blanket ban on combustion engines in Europe from 2035.

Describing the move from e-POWER to full battery-electric tech as a “natural progression”, Nissan Europe boss Guillaume Cartier confirmed for the first time that the current generation of Nissan SUVs had been developed for pure battery power, including the pint-size JUKE.

Instead of being based on the CM-F (JUKE) platform or the CMF-CD architecture that underpins the latest QASHQAI and X-TRAIL, it’s thought the all-electric versions will actually be based on same CMF-EV platform that underpins the Renault Megane E-Tech and Nissan Ariya electric SUVs, but with a JUKE, QASHQAI or X-TRAIL ‘top hat’.

Set to benefit from next-gen battery tech that will bring higher energy density and lower costs, the new family of EVs should be capable of being charged at more than 400kW, although their timing means they will miss out on the car-maker’s most advanced solid-state battery tech that won’t be introduced until 2028 at the earliest.

Nissan says EVs will account for half of its global sales by 2030.

As well as all-electric versions of the JUKE, QASHQAI and X-TRAIL, Nissan will roll out a battery-powered version of the new Micra, which is not sold in Australia.

None of these newly announced EVs have yet been confirmed for Australia, where e-POWER hybrid tech has just debuted in the new X-TRAIL and we’re still waiting for the Ariya and QAHQAI e-POWER.

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