Nissan’s Electric SUV Rendered With Leaf And Kicks Design

Before Nissan’s all-electric SUV premieres at October’s Tokyo Motor Show, Behance designer

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by Brad Anderson

October 4, 2017 at 01:33

Before Nissan’s all-electric SUV premieres at October’s Tokyo Motor Show, Behance designer Kbleber Silva has rendered the vehicle.

No one outside of Nissan has any idea of what the SUV will look like but we do know it will share its underpinnings and battery technologies with the latest-generation Nissan Leaf. Consequently, it seems likely that it will receive some styling inspiration from the Leaf.

In creating his rendering, Silva has essentially grafted some styling elements of the Leaf onto the front-end of the Nissan Kicks to create an all-electric SUV. Compared to the standard Kicks, the vehicle designed adopts a faux grille, has a charge port in its nose just like the Leaf and receives headlights similar to those of the electric hatchback.

From what we know of the SUV, the vehicle will be slightly larger than the Nissan Qashqai and probably be sold with the same 40-kWh battery as the 2018 Leaf.

Like the Leaf, the SUV’s range will sit near 150 miles which will be less than what the upcoming Tesla Model Y will muster up. However, the vehicle should follow in the footsteps of the Nissan Leaf by undercutting its rivals in price.