Tokyo Motor Show 2017: Nissan's electric future

MANILA, Philippines — "This is what the future of Nissan Intelligent Mobility will look and sound like..." exclaimed Daniele Schillaci, Nissan's EVP for Global Marketing and Sales, as he opened the presentation of the Nissan booth before the numerous international press, at the 45th Tokyo Motor Show two weeks ago. Beside him were the Nissan Leaf NISMO and IMx Zero Emission Concepts, both vehicles making their World Premiere as Nissan's bets into the cars of the future.

The Leaf is not new to anyone; it has since been the icon of Nissan's Intelligent Mobility, and with its latest-gen production model already being sold in Japan, it has so far proven extremely successful, with astoundingly strong customer reception (surpassing more than half of last year's sales in one month alone).

Thus it was probably only natural to come up with the Leaf NISMO concept-Nissan's idea of how the quintessential EV can be transformed into a true driving machine.

Strongly moving in that direction, Nissan has also just announced its desire to dip its feet into 'electric racing'–with Schillaci calling this a 'revolution for motorsports.' "After all," he remarked, "we are clean; we are economical!"

"Next year," he promises, "Nissan joins Season 5 of the Formula E Championship." "Because at Nissan," he adds, "we never stop; we keep moving forward."

As if that were not enough of a good thing, Nissan also introduced its futuristic-looking IMx Zero Emission crossover EV.

The Nissan IMx with Nissan’s SVP for Global Design, Alfonoso Albaisa; EVP for Global Marketing and Sales, Daniele Schillaci; and EVP for Product Engineering, Hideyuki Sakamoto presented Nissan’s latest concept vehicles at the 2017 TMS.