Amped up! Nissan to bring 19 new electric cars this decade among 27 electrified models, but what does that mean for Patrol, X-Trail, Qashqai and more?

Nissan is stepping up its electrification plans even further to meet the “growing needs” for electric cars, with the brand hoping more than half its global sales are electrified by 2030.

To meet this goal, Nissan will introduce an extra four electric cars in addition to the 15 it had originally planned to build by 2030, raising its total number of planned new electrified models this decade to 27.

Nissan says the shift aims to “meet the needs of individual markets, improve the competitiveness of development and manufacturing globally, and further accelerate the electrification strategy”, in order to achieve the goals it has set in its Nissan Ambition 2030 plan.

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Its expected share of electrified vehicle sales by the end of the decade has risen from 50 to 55 per cent compared to the Ambition plan announced in 2021, with even its electrified vehicle forecasts for the world’s regions by 2026 changing quite dramatically in some cases.

Nissan expects that, in 2026, 98 per cent of the cars it sells in Europe will be electrified, compared to the 75 per cent it previously predicted.

In Japan, it now expects to sell 58 per cent electrified cars in 2026, instead of 55, while in the US plans remain unchanged at 40 per cent.

China is the exception, where domestic brands have stormed the market with choices for EV sales, meaning Nissan has lowered its forecast to a share of just 35 per cent electrified models sold there in 2026.

There, it says it will push harder “to address rapid market changes” and as such will “launch an EV designed specifically for the market”.

Europe, where Nissan is very optimistic about how well it expects its EVs to do, benefits greatly from the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance. Beyond 2026, Nissan and Renault specifically will “explore possible collaborations on the next generation of C-segment Electric Vehicles”.

Nissan has been partially hamstrung by supply issues in Australia, with no sign of the Ariya electric SUV.

Locally, Nissan has already confirmed electrified models in the form of the X-Trail and Qashqai with e-Power hybrid drivetrain options, which join the long-serving Nissan Leaf electric car.

In Europe, the fully electric Nissan Ariya and a hybrid variant of the Juke are also available, though cars like the Pathfinder, Navara, and Patrol are less popular there and might not be part of the near-future plans for electrification.

With the Navara and Patrol being the brand’s first- and third-most popular cars in Australia, with the X-Trail second, it’s hard to see the local line-up being quite as electric as Europe for some time.