Nissan's electrified drivetrains use compact motors and parts sharing - here's how they reduce the cost of the firm's EV development
announced in March that its new ‘X-in-1’ powertrain packages will reduce driveline costs by 30% by 2026 compared with 2019. It also expects to achieve price parity between its hybrid e-Power models and conventional ICE models by the same date. Parity for EVs will come “eventually”, helped by the introduction of solid-state batteries.
Although e-Power wasn’t launched until 2016, a Leaf-based prototype first ran as early as 2010. Since then, the drivetrains have been steadily improved. Cost reductions also come from parts sharing across the range of motors, which now use less than 1% of rare-earth elements in the magnets. Engineers achieved this by modifying the shape of the motor’s rotor surface to reduce heat loss.
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