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2 hundred miles miles in an EV may be the new normal for affordable EVs, not 80-100 miles. Nissan simply confirmed that the next-generation Nissan Foliage electric vehicle will go more than 200 miles, since one of the bombardment packs offered will be a sixty-kWh lithium-ion unit of measurement. And then that makes the upcoming Chevrolet Bolt, Tesla Model iii, and Nissan Leaf all delivering 200 miles on a accuse.

Nissan'due south strategy will be to offer multiple battery options, including one of about 24 kWh as on the current all-time-selling Leaf that is good for 84 miles on the EPA cycle, or a 30-kWh battery (also offered now) practiced for 107 miles, and one of 60 kWh that by interpolation would get 210-220 miles of range.

Next Nissan Foliage due in 2018

The side by side generation Nissan Leafage volition appear in 2017 as a 2018 model, or in calendar 2018, meaning it could be as piffling equally a year away. As technology allows more than power to exist packed in the same space, automakers are probable to let buyers decide if they want emphasize lower toll or greater range.

The Nissan IDS concept automobile (pictured) has been shown at US and international auto shows since last autumn. IDS stands for Intelligent Driving Organisation, so it'southward both an electrical motorcar prototype and an democratic bulldoze concept car. IDS stands for intelligent driving arrangement, as in "self-driving." It's possible the next Leaf would assume some of the IDS motorcar's swoopy lines. For sure it will take the IDS car'south big battery.

Asked well-nigh the 60-kWh battery, Kazuo Yajima, global director of EV and hybrid EV engineering science at Nissan, told told Autoblog, "It's coming … I cannot say when." Others accept said the when is for the 2018 Leaf.

What's the big bargain with 200 miles? More sales

The market for EVs should expand significantly as automakers swap in 200-mile batteries, meaning 60 kWh batteries in a compact vehicle, if they keep the price increase incremental. When Nissan began offering the 30-kWh pack late final yr, the upcharge was about $5,000 to go 23 extra miles (107 versus 84). To be competitive with Commodities and Tesla Model 3, Nissan will need to keep the price increase to less than $10,000, or the base of operations cost somewhere in the mid-thirties and certainly nether $40K, before tax credit rebates.

For the full-size Tesla Model Southward, the company offers sixty-kWh, 75-kWh, and 90-kWh batteries; the 90D model with all-wheel-drive is rated at 294 miles (EPA) and the performance P90D at 270 miles.

As for the competition: volt pullapart

Chevrolet unveiled the Chevrolet Commodities (inset epitome) in January at Detroit'due south North American International Automobile Show. It goes into product toward the end of this year equally a 2017 model, with at to the lowest degree a trickle of sales in 2016. The base of operations model should exist priced around $37,500 before a federal tax credit of $seven,500, meaning it'due south a $30,000, 200-mile vehicle.

The Tesla Model three was announced in March with a projected belatedly 2017 ship date, or about the aforementioned time as the 2018 Nissan Leafage arrives. Chevrolet will have had a pb of virtually four quarters in delivering the Commodities. Tesla hints the Model 3 could sell 500,000 units a year by 2020. Information technology will exist handicapped by the federal tax credit: By the time the Model 3 really ships, with a base cost around $35,000, the company's taxation credits for EVs may accept been all but used upward past Model Southward and Model Ten sales.