New Nissan Micra Coming Soon: Specs, price and release info

If your gran didn’t have one there’s a good chance you learned to drive in a Nissan Micra, or perhaps had one as your first car. Enduringly popular for its affordability, reliability and surprisingly good handling, the Micra has now been reborn as fully electric model we hope carries these traditions through to the battery-powered era…
• New Micra one of four all-electric Nissans coming soon • Two battery options available – pick the smaller one for buzzing around town while the bigger of the two goes over 200 miles if you need the extra flexibility • Adjustable regenerative braking available via paddles on the wheel, with a ‘one pedal driving’ option bringing the car to a full stop when you lift off the gas for easy, efficient city driving • No performance stats yet but the smaller battery version is impressively light, so should feel lively enough • Prices to be confirmed but sales expected to start before the end of the year

Where Micras of old tended towards the soft and cuddly looking this new one has a bit more mini-SUV attitude about it, perhaps reminiscent of the Hyundai Inster it will likely compete with. A short overall length and wheels stretched out to the corners are good for interior space as well as handling, all models getting 18-inch wheels while the large range of colour options will include snazzier two-tones if that’s your bag.

Even small cars get big tech these days, the new Micra using paired 10.1-inch screens with one for the instruments and another in the centre for navigation, calls and entertainment. This will be powered by Nissan’s Google-based system with Google Maps, Google Play and Google Assistant all built in and usable without the need to connect your phone. Big car safety tech also features, hopefully meaning slightly fewer Micras going backwards through hedges than might have happened back in the day.

Two batteries will be available, the smaller 42kWh one having 122 horsepower and going just under 200 miles on a charge, the bigger 52kWh option getting 149 horsepower and getting close to 250 miles in one hit. On a good day. Numbers aside this should translate to sensible performance for a car of this type, with enough to keep pace with motorway traffic if your journeys take you beyond city limits.

We don’t yet know how much the new Micra will cost but we’ll hope for an affordable starting price to add further choice to the increasingly competitive affordable electric car market. Sales are due to start by the end of 2025.

Probably not this year, but the new Micra is leading a charge of new and updated Nissans, including fresh versions of the Leaf, Juke and the promise of a new and even smaller electric city car. The popular Qashqai will also be getting an upgraded version of Nissan’s quirky e-Power hybrid tech.

Buyers who felt priced out of electric cars previously will be cheering the return of the Micra, and others like it hitting the market. These include the Hyundai Inster, the Kia EV2 and more.