Yoshi Shimoida, Nissan’s deputy general manager of electric car engineering, announced this week that future Nissan electric cars will offer a range extender, with a two-cylinder gasoline engine integrated into the electric drive system that will essentially double the range of the car to around 150 miles. The new technology is expected to be available in the next model year, and it could also make its way onto other models like the Leaf, which has been on sale since last year.
Yoshi Shimoida, Nissan’s deputy general manager of electric car engineering, announced this week that future Nissan electric cars will offer a range extender, with a two-cylinder gasoline engine integrated into the electric drive system that will essentially double the range of the car to around 150 miles. However, according to Shimoida, there are currently no plans to offer the range extender in the ever-popular LEAF model, instead, it will appear on an as-yet-unnamed future model, with speculation being that it might be used on a production version of Nissan's IDS concept, which debuted at the 2015 Tokyo Auto Show.