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But when Nissan's luxury brand Infiniti announces an EV for 2013, they get the benefit of any doubt. Autobloggreen reports on the sketch that appeared on Infiniti's FaceBook page. Tags: tesla saab 9-3 ePower RAV4 EV toyota infiniti battery electric car I'm getting used to hearing electric car announcements. I usually take them with a grain of salt, as in the case of the Saab 9-3 ePower concept. Or the Toyesla RAV4 EV redux, for that matter.

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OCTOBER 8, 2015

But Nissan's Infiniti luxury division has not been a part of that volume--and now it appears it may not be for some time. Infiniti says it has the capability to launch an electric car (most likely by leaning on parent. Future Cars plug-in cars Infiniti LE ConceptThe Renault Nissan Alliance has sold more electric cars globally than any other company, more than a quarter million as of June.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

That’s all set to change soon with the introduction of not just one or two new EVs, but an entire new family of them—and potentially, by the middle of the decade, more than a dozen models globally across Nissan, its Infiniti luxury brand, and Nissan hasn’t launched a completely new dedicated electric vehicle in nearly 10 years.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The long-running Infiniti Q50 Hybrid luxury sedan won't return for 2019, the automaker said Thursday. Infiniti spokesman Kyle Bazemore confirmed the demise of the Q50 Hybrid this year for Green Car Reports. Although Infiniti didn't report sales for the Q50 Hybrid and Q70 Hybrid models separately, it's The automaker axed the Q70 Hybrid in July.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 17, 2018

That's the place where automakers like Acura, Audi, BMW, Infiniti, and Lexus have thrived for decades. In response, Infiniti is Tesla has rocked the luxury car market in the U.S. to its core with the Model S and Model X, and is now doing the same to the aspirational lower end of the car market and even the mainstream market with its Model 3.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2019

At NAIAS 2019, INFINITI unveiled the QX Inspiration midsize SUV concept, previewing the brand’s first fully electric vehicle. This design study previews the brand’s plan to launch a range of high-performance electrified vehicles; the INFINITI lineup of the future will consist of a range of electric, e-POWER and performance hybrid vehicles. The new concept illustrates how new architectures and technologies are influencing modern INFINITI design.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 24, 2018

Infiniti has promised to build electric cars in fits and starts since 2012—but we're still waiting. At the 2012 Detroit auto show, the upscale brand showed the Infiniti LE, a dressed up Nissan Leaf with a trunk, but it backed away from the model two years later and we didn't hear anything else about electrics from Infiniti for years.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Nissan's strong commitment to electric cars has not, so far, extended to its Infiniti luxury brand. While the six-year-old Nissan Leaf is the bestselling electric car in history, the company has repeatedly postponed plans for an all-electric Infiniti model. But Infiniti's on-again, off-again electric car may now be back on again. RELATED: Infiniti.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Infiniti has released pricing for its new BMW-rivalling coupe – the Q60 – which will be available from October. Infiniti Q60With a list price of £33,990, the seco.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 24, 2019

The company announced on Tuesday it has hired former Infiniti President Roland Krueger to head its automotive operations. Under Krueger's tenure, Infiniti, Nissan's luxury brand, announced that it would convert most of its models to electric or. Dyson, famous for reinventing vacuum cleaners, looks to be getting serious about building electric cars. dyson

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Infiniti, Nissan’s luxury brand, is on the verge of its 30th birthday and already in the midst of what sounds like serious midlife crisis territory. For one, it’s giving up on Western Europe and Australia, among other markets, and focusing in on the U.S.—where —where it originally launched, in 1989—and China, where the brand sees

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2018

Infiniti unveiled its electric Prototype 10 at the 2018 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. The concept represents a physical manifestation of Infiniti’s plans for electrified performance. From 2021, every new Infiniti model will be electrified, featuring hybrid or battery electric technology to enhance performance. A future vision realized by Infiniti designers, Prototype 10 evokes the spirit of early Californian speedsters.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

As part of its plan to electrify its portfolio from 2021 onward, INFINITI will reveal a new Project Black S prototype in Paris, showcasing how Formula One dual-hybrid electric powertrain technology can be deployed in a road car. The Project Black S fuses high-performance dual-hybrid technology with INFINITI’s award-winning VR30 3.0-liter V6 twin-turbo engine.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 6, 2016

That has led Infiniti to turn to a technology engineers have toyed with for some time, one that so far hasn't been used in production cars. To meet stricter global emissions standards, carmakers are trying to squeeze every last bit of efficiency out of internal-combustion engines. General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, and Saab have all experimented with. Engines Fuel Economy Paris Motor Show

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2018

Ahead of Beijing International Motor Show, INFINITI announced it will build five new vehicles in China in the next five years, beginning with the all new QX50 SUV, and electrify its portfolio ( earlier post ). Over the next five years INFINITI is planning to localize five new vehicles in China, tripling our sales here in our fastest growth market, globally. We will continue to strive to make INFINITI the top premium challenger brand in the market.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 10, 2019

Infiniti is on the back foot for electrified powertrains today. On Wednesday, ahead of the 2019 Shanghai auto show, the Infiniti Qs Inspiration concept sedan gave us a glimpse of what may be The luxury automaker quietly shelved its hybrid powertrains in the past few years in the buildup toward an all-electric lineup sometime in the next few years.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 20, 2015

But another news item is just now coming to light: A representative for Nissan''s luxury brand, Infiniti, says the carmaker has shelved plans to offer a battery-electric model. DON''T MISS: Infiniti LE The electric-car headlines at last week''s Detroit Auto Show clearly belonged to the Chevrolet Bolt concept, a subcompact 200-mile electric car.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 23, 2012

From the outside, the 2012 Infiniti M35h hybrid looks just like any other model of the large luxury sport sedan. It's the first hybrid for Infiniti, that gives the M35h the title of "fastest hybrid sedan" sold this year. Infiniti is proud of Only some subtle badges--one on each front fender, one on the trunk lid--denote its hybrid powertrain.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Where we stand: February, 2012 As the luxury division of Japanese carmaker Nissan, the Infiniti brand is better known for high performance vehicles than anything that can be remotely described as “green”. Nevertheless, in recent times, Infiniti has taken steps towards expanding its line-up and appealing to a wider consumer base with several green innovations [.]. Manufacturer Spotlight car hybrid Infiniti

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Transmissions will soon be history at Infiniti. Electric motors will exclusively power the drive wheels of future models, and all or nearly all versions will have all-wheel drive. Yet charge ports won’t be all that common, and most of the vehicles will still have a fuel tank, a tailpipe, and an engine under the hood. Confused? That’s

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Two years after unveiling a concept version of its first compact luxury car, Infiniti unveiled the real thing at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show. The 2017 Infiniti Q30 takes Nissan's luxury brand into a new area of the market, with a little help from Mercedes-Benz. That's because the Q30 shares its underpinnings with the European-market. Frankfurt Auto Show Frankfurt Motor Show

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Green Car Reports

JULY 30, 2018

The Infiniti Q70 Hybrid won't make it to 2019, the automaker announced last week. Infiniti dropped the full-size, electrified luxury sedan from the lineup after 2018. The car debuted in 2011 as the M37 Hybrid, but sales of the hybrid version always paled in comparison to the gas V-6 and V-8 versions of the big luxury sedan. Although it was renamed

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FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Infiniti is reportedly planning on using the imminent reveal of its new electric hybrid concept car the Emerg-e, as the first phase of a repositioning of the brand to combine high performance with green credentials. Nissan Infiniti range extender UKThe Emerg-e, which will be revealed at the Geneva Motor Show next month, is the first car from the Nissan-owned [.].

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AUGUST 3, 2012

Nissan’s luxury brand Infiniti has been recognised for the design of its first range-extended electric car with a new award. The Infiniti Emerg-e has won a prestigious award from the German Design Council. Nissan award electric car InfinitiThe concept car, first revealed at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year took the prize in the Concepts category. A prize [.].

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

INFINITI’s future models will offer drivers a choice of electrified powertrains as the brand embraces new technology to propel its vehicles. INFINITI says that the new gasoline-generated EV powertrain is central to its electrification strategy, and establishes a new propulsion blueprint for many of the brand’s future models. The battery pack is recharged constantly by INFINITI’s new ‘MR15DDT’ engine.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Infiniti kills the Q50 Hybrid. VW shows off the ID Buzz electric cargo bus. Jaguar takes the I-Pace on a tour across the United States. And French luxury brand DS introduces the DS 3 electric crossover. All of this and more on Green Car Reports. The VW ID Buzz Cargo builds on the original ID Buzz concept and previews a future commercial vehicle

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Hybrid SUV Blog

MARCH 21, 2013

Infiniti recently announced plans to go global and their first vehicle to be released with this vision in mind will be the 2014 QX60 Hybrid SUV. With the 2013 edition of the New York International Auto Show just around the corner, Infiniti has gone ahead with revealing the design of its upcoming sport utility. In December 0f 2012, Infiniti decided to rename all its models, opting to go with ‘QX’ for its SUVs. Delivering on their word, Infiniti renamed this model the QX60.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 30, 2014

Some vehicles have complex, protracted development histories--and it looks like the Infiniti LE electric luxury sedan may be one of them. Following a period in which its development was suspended by Infiniti''s then-CEO Johan de Nysschen (who most recently heads Cadillac), the LE is now back on Infiniti''s product plan.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 26, 2013

Anyone in the market for a fuel-efficient sedan with sporty dynamics and a bit of luxury now has a new option: the 2014 Infiniti Q50 Hybrid. The Q50 is essentially Infiniti’s replacement for the G37, and it goes on sale this July with a starting price of $37,605, including a $905 destination charge. However, the model we’re interested

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Green Car Reports

JULY 22, 2015

Today, we have a report that Porsche will unveil an electric concept car at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show, the first official photo of the Infiniti Q30 compact, and details of a three-country electric-motorcycle tour. We now have the first official photo of the production Infiniti Q30 compact hatchback.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2018

In Beijing, INFINITI Motor Company announced it is developing an all-new electrified vehicle platform influenced by the Q Inspiration concept car. When INFINITI unveiled the Q Inspiration at NAIAS this January, the concept was powered by a VC-Turbo variable compression ratio engine powertrain. INFINITI will produce an electrified vehicle in China—one of five new vehicles it will build in China over the next five years—on this new platform at a site still to be announced.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Infiniti’s VC-Turbo variable compression engine ( earlier post ) was named by the Automobile, Motor and Bicycle Association of Austria (ARBÖ) with the Grand Austrian Automobile Award in the category “Environment.” Infiniti engineers have worked for 20 years on the technology to make VC-Turbo production-ready. The first Infiniti cars equipped with the VC-Turbo engine will be on sale in 2018.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Infiniti is recalling a few hundred 2014 model-year Q50 and Q70 hybrid sedans to fix an issue with their transmissions. DON''T MISS: Infiniti LE Electric Luxury The recall includes just 817 cars, all of which are being scrutinized because of concerns they may have been assembled with transmission housings that were damaged during manufacturing.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Automotive News Europe reported Tuesday that the production version of the Nissan Ariya concept EV may have been initially an Infiniti deep within the company's plans, well before the brand was folded in Western Europe, and could telegraph Nissan's Nissan's long-term push back into profitability may draw on upmarket EVs, a recent report indicates.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2018

Infiniti unveiled its Q Inspiration Concept at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Previewing a new generation of Infiniti vehicles, the Q Inspiration Concept proposes how an innovative VC-Turbo variable compression ratio engine powertrain ( earlier post ), next-level autonomous drive technologies, and a unique human-centric interior could enrich the experience of drivers in the mid-size sedan segment.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2017

INFINITI LAB Toronto, an Internet of Things (IoT) and smart cities accelerator program from premium car brand INFINITI, announced the nine startups that will participate in the inaugural four-week accelerator program in Toronto. The month-long Toronto program kicks off on 29 May, and the top startup will be fast-tracked into the three-month global program at the brand’s HQ, the INFINITI LAB Hong Kong driven by Nest, which launches in August.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Infiniti plans to introduce a concept version of its first production electric car at the Detroit auto show next month. Hyundai announces pricing for its upcoming Kona Electric. Chinese electric startup automaker Nio reveals its second production model. And German automakers announce big investments in batteries. All this and more on Green Car. Nio ES6

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

The field of luxury compact crossover utility vehicles will get a little more crowded next year, when Infiniti launches its QX30--the Japanese brand''s smallest SUV yet. Now Infiniti has released a teaser photo of the QX30 Concept it will unveil at next month''s Geneva Motor Show. The production version of the Infiniti QX30, expected to arrive in

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 5, 2012

Yesterday, we got a brief glimpse of Infiniti's four-door sedan concept car; today, we have all the details of the Infiniti LE Concept. The four-door, all-electric sedan concept is really a thinly disguised production car that will reach Infiniti dealers within two years. It gives Nissan's luxury brand its first all-electric vehicle and an entry

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Infiniti has made little secret of its desire to launch a new flagship that would finally fill the void left by the departure of its largest sedan, the Q45. Today, at the 2014 Paris Motor Show, we now have our first solid look at the automaker’s progress--in the form of the stunning Q80 Inspiration concept. Not that long ago, it appeared

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Green Car Reports

MAY 21, 2013

It''s been a few years since Infiniti confirmed it was working on a luxury sedan based on the Nissan Leaf, but little extra information has emerged since then. Infiniti''s luxury electric vehicle would be a Autocar reports the firm is still working on such a vehicle--it''s just waiting for inductive charging technology to become commonplace, first.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Infiniti bumps turbo fuel efficiency with a new variable-compression engine. Chrysler recalls Pacifica Hybrid plug-in minivans—again. Faster charging is coming—but it won't come cheap. And we detail why the Hyundai Kona Electric is one of our three finalists for Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2019. All this and more on Green Car. Fast Charging

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JANUARY 3, 2017

Infiniti has revealed what the next QX50 crossover could look like in the form of a concept. Infiniti Detroit Motor Show QX50The luxury Japanese brand is aiming to take on the likes.

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