The impact of soaring raw material prices will also spread to the rise in automobile prices.
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation have found that they will raise the price of EV = electric vehicles that have just been released this year.
According to the people involved, Nissan plans to raise the price of the light car type EV "Sakura" from the 22nd.
The price increase will be about 100,000 yen to 160,000 yen, or 3% to 6%.
We will also raise the price of our flagship EV, the LEAF, from next month.
In addition, Mitsubishi Motors will increase the price of the light car type EV, "eK Cross EV" to about 140,000 yen, and the main plug-in hybrid car, "Outlander" to 220,000 yen, each at a rate of about 5% from February next year. is the policy to do so.
Especially for EVs, the cost of storage batteries is said to account for one-third of the cost of the vehicle body, and the soaring prices of raw materials such as lithium and cobalt have had a major impact.
Both companies' light vehicle type EVs were jointly developed and just released in June this year, and both companies have so far tried to absorb costs by saving energy at factories and improving the efficiency of production processes, but raw material prices Due to the long-term soaring price of cars, it is inevitable that the price of hot-selling new cars will increase.
Among automobile companies, besides EVs, Mazda and SUBARU have already raised prices for some models, and it is expected that this will spread further.