The current Nissan GT-R has been around since 2007, and has gone through enough updates to warrant a new generation. It is official now that the next-gen GT-R is underway to the market with only minor powertrain improvements. When will there be a fully electric GT-R?
Speaking in an interview with Top Gear, one of the company’s top execs let it slip that radical changes were coming to the Godzilla lineup that would leave it without its famous IC engine.
‘It is still too early to talk about when, but the GT-R will certainly go all-electric,’ Nissan COO Ashwani Gupta said. At the same time, he admitted that the company had not yet developed suitable technology for proper electrification of a car as performance-focused as the GT-R.
In earlier news, we reported that the current generation would retire as soon as a farewell edition comes out, which would be able to extract 720 PS (710 hp / 529 kW) from its boosted engine.