Nissan design chief Alfonso Albaisa says today's car design is inverted from the practices of the past, and Nissan is thinking about an electric pickup truck.
We got insight into today's vehicle design by sitting down with Nissan's Senior Vice President of Global Design, Alfonso Albaisa, at theNissan EV teaserVehicle design in the modern era has become a numbers game, according to Albaisa. Before a vehicle is even designed, a spatial volume and a target coefficient of drag are set in stone. That's the marker. The rest is shaped, sculpted, and designed around these numbers. This is the opposite of how it used to be.
The process of designing a car now starts with making a shape and setting where the nose has to be. This involves the height of the front end, hood line, and cowl. This all plays into hitting the target coefficient of drag for the specific vehicle. The rest comes after at this point. Albaisa noted the future lineup of Nissans is already designed and sitting in his studio in Japan, but he wouldn't say how many have been fully designed.Nissan's pickup truck started life in the U.S. in 1959 as the Datsun B-10, and it might not hit the end of the road anytime soon. Thehe's informed his team to"start thinking, because the evolution of the pickup truck is not going to be like the other cars.
Alabaisa could not comment on where an electric pickup truck falls in the automaker's future timeline, but he said Nissan makes trucks.
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