The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance has published its 2030 roadmap, revealing plans to launch 35 new electric vehicles by 2030 and have the largest global EV offering.

The common roadmap focuses on sharing investments in future electrification and connectivity projects, and follows the May 2020 announcement of the Alliance’s cooperation business model. This leverages their respective leadership positions and geographic strengths to support their partners’ business development.

Under the new roadmap, the Alliance members will invest €23bn (£19.2bn) over the next five years to support an offensive strategy in electrification; “massive investments that none of the three companies could make alone”, according to Jean-Dominique Senard, chairman of the Alliance. It will also enhance usage of common platforms to reach 80% in 2026, up from 60% today and “extending innovations across the Alliance, at a lower cost”.

Its plans for 35 new EV models by 2030 will see 90% of them based on five common EV platforms, covering most markets, in all major regions.

The entry-level CMF-AEV has been developed for affordable models, such as the new Dacia Spring, while the KEI-EV (mini vehicle) platform family will be used for ultra-compact EVs.

The LCV-EV Family platform is being used for vans such the new Renault Kangoo and Nissan Townstar.

More imminently, the CMF-EV platform arrives in the coming weeks as the base for the Nissan Ariya EV crossover and Renault Mégane E-Tech Electric. It’s the benchmark platform for a new generation of electric vehicles for the Alliance partners and, by 2030, more than 15 models will be built on it, accounting for production up to 1.5 million cars per year.

Finally, the CMF-BEV will arrive in 2024, billed as the most competitive compact electric platform in the world. It provides up to 400km (249 miles) of range and it’s said to bring outstanding aerodynamics performances that will help reduce cost by 33% and power consumption by more than 10% compared to the current Renault Zoe.

This platform will be used as the basis for 250,000 vehicles a year under the Renault, Alpine and Nissan brands, including the Renault R5 and Nissan’s forthcoming compact EV, also announced today and succeeding the Micra.

The platform sharing will also see Mitsubishi introduce two new models in Europe, including the new ASX, based on Renault platforms.

The new roadmap also reinforces the Alliance’s common battery strategy, which will reduce battery costs by 50% in 2026 and 65% by 2028, and will give a total of 220GWh battery production capacity for EVs across key production sites in the world.

The Alliance is also pushing ahead with its common vision for all-solid-state battery technology (ASSB), which is being led by Nissan and will bring double the energy density compared to current liquid lithium-ion batteries while reducing charging time to at third. It will also cut costs and help realise cost parity with ICE vehicles.

Intelligent and connected mobility are also critical areas for increased shared innovation across the Alliance. It expects to have more than 10 million vehicles on the road with autonomous driving systems by 2026, running across 45 models.

And by 2025, the Alliance will launch its first full software-defined vehicle, enabling over-the-air updates that not only bring a personalised experience, new enhanced services and reduced maintenance costs for drivers but will also enable the respective carmakers to boost vehicle resale values. Such vehicles will also be able to communicate with connected objects, users and infrastructure, bringing further value opportunities.