日产去年11月就透露，下一代聆风纯电动车将搭载60千瓦时电池组。日产的IDS概念车就搭载了相同的电池。现在，日产全球电动车和混动车负责人Kazuo Yajima证实，新一代聆风将搭载60千瓦时电池组。由于新一代聆风搭载的60千瓦时电池比现行版的24千瓦时电池容量增加了一倍以上，因此续航里程也将增加一倍以上，达到210-220英里（约合338-354公里），根据不同路况和驾驶员习惯，续航里程会略有不同。无论新车续航里程如何，重要的是，在面对雪佛兰Bolt或特斯拉Model 3的挑战时，日产并未停滞不前。Yajima表示，未来，日产将推出不存在续航里程问题的电动车。

 

Nissan confirms next-gen Leaf will have over 200-mile range

Nissan has been hinting that it will offer an all-electric Leaf with a 60-kWh battery since at least last November. That's when the automaker showed off the IDS concept with just that size battery pack. The IDS wasn't exactly a new Leaf preview vehicle, but we know a hint when we see one.

 

Today, we finally got confirmation that the next-gen Leaf will indeed have a 60-kWh pack. Kazuo Yajima, Nissan's global director of EV and HEV engineering, told AutoblogGreen that "It's coming," referring to a 60-kWh Leaf. "I'm sorry I cannot say when," he said. We spoke with Yajima at EVS29, a large electric vehicle symposium happening this week in Montreal, Canada.

 

Yajima said that Nissan is proud to be showing off its latest battery technology at EVS29, as pictured above. He said that with more than double the capacity of the 24-kWh battery in the current Leaf, the 60-kWh pack in the next Leaf will be able to have more than twice the driving range of today's model, or something like 210-220 miles, depending on conditions and which test you're using. Whatever the exact number ends up being, the important part is that Nissan is not standing still when it comes to challenging the upcoming Chevy Bolt EV or Tesla Model 3. "In the near future, I believe, we can produce an electric vehicle that doesn't have any driving range problem," he said.