Infiniti Is Ready To Rumble In The EV Sports Car Market
is not going to be confused as a serious mover and shaker in the premium market, at least in the way and are treated. However, s upscale brand did make some strong gains in 2016 when it delivered more than 230,000 vehicles for the entire year. Not only was that number up seven percent compared to its total in 2015, it also represented a new sales record for the company. So with bright and sunny days seemingly ahead for Infiniti, now appears to be a good a time as any for the brand to drop big news regarding its future. Well, Infiniti did just that by confirming plans to bring an to market by 2020.
No less than Infiniti chief Roland Krueger confirmed the news to Autocar, saying that he’d already seen an early prototype of the car. Krueger didn’t dive into the details on what the performance car is going to look like or how much power it’s going to have, but he did say that the car would ride on a completely new platform and will be grounded on providing customers with impressive performance capabilities and impeccable handling abilities. Knowing this, it’s likely that Infiniti will tap into the pool of resources it has at its disposal courtesy of Nissan, the parent firm that has been in the business of electric cars for quite some time now, albeit in a far different capacity that what Infiniti plans to do with this new performance EV.
As far as speculating on this new EV sports car is concerned, we can harken back to the Emerg-e that Infiniti unveiled as an early concept of a potential electric performance car. That’s not to say that the is going to be the complete peg of this future EV sports car, but the concept was packaged as an aggressive two-door sports with a pair of electric motors that worked in concert with a range-extending three-cylinder engine to produce a total output of 420 horsepower, a range of up to 300 miles, and a 0-to-60-mph sprint time of just four seconds. Even by today’s standards, those figures fit into what an electric sports car is capable of.
Let’s hope than that Infiniti doesn’t spend the next three years developing this EV sports under a blanket of secrecy.
Continue after the jump to read the full story.
Infiniti Is Ready To Rumble In The EV Sports Car Market
is not going to be confused as a serious mover and shaker in the premium market, at least in the way and are treated. However, s upscale brand did make some strong gains in 2016 when it delivered more than 230,000 vehicles for the entire year. Not only was that number up seven percent compared to its total in 2015, it also represented a new sales record for the company. So with bright and sunny days seemingly ahead for Infiniti, now appears to be a good a time as any for the brand to drop big news regarding its future. Well, Infiniti did just that by confirming plans to bring an to market by 2020.
No less than Infiniti chief Roland Krueger confirmed the news to Autocar, saying that he’d already seen an early prototype of the car. Krueger didn’t dive into the details on what the performance car is going to look like or how much power it’s going to have, but he did say that the car would ride on a completely new platform and will be grounded on providing customers with impressive performance capabilities and impeccable handling abilities. Knowing this, it’s likely that Infiniti will tap into the pool of resources it has at its disposal courtesy of Nissan, the parent firm that has been in the business of electric cars for quite some time now, albeit in a far different capacity that what Infiniti plans to do with this new performance EV.
As far as speculating on this new EV sports car is concerned, we can harken back to the Emerg-e that Infiniti unveiled as an early concept of a potential electric performance car. That’s not to say that the is going to be the complete peg of this future EV sports car, but the concept was packaged as an aggressive two-door sports with a pair of electric motors that worked in concert with a range-extending three-cylinder engine to produce a total output of 420 horsepower, a range of up to 300 miles, and a 0-to-60-mph sprint time of just four seconds. Even by today’s standards, those figures fit into what an electric sports car is capable of.
Let’s hope than that Infiniti doesn’t spend the next three years developing this EV sports under a blanket of secrecy.
Continue after the jump to read the full story.
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Infiniti Is Ready To Rumble In The EV Sports Car Market
