Nissan Motor and Mitsubishi Motors announced that they will raise the price of EV = electric vehicles that have just been released this year.
Among automobile companies, prices have already been raised for some models other than EVs, and the impact of soaring raw material prices is spreading.
According to the announcement,
Nissan will
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%.
In addition, the
price of the main EV “Leaf” will be raised from about 370,000 yen to 1,020,000 yen, or 9% to 24%.
In addition, Mitsubishi Motors will raise the price of
the mini vehicle type EV "eK Cross EV" to about 140,000 yen and
the main plug-in hybrid car "Outlander" to 220,000 yen
, at a rate of about 5% from February next year. do.
Especially for EVs, the cost of storage batteries is said to account for one-third of the cost of the vehicle body, and the steep rise in raw materials lithium and cobalt has a major impact.
The two companies' minicar-type EVs were jointly developed and just launched in June this year, and the two companies have so far tried to absorb costs by saving energy at factories and improving the efficiency of production processes. It is a form in which price increases have become unavoidable due to the prolonged rise in prices.
Among automobile companies, Mazda and SUBARU have already raised prices for some models other than EVs, and it is expected that this will spread further.