Nissan has announced that its new entry-level compact electric car for Europe will be called Pixo. It will be built alongside the electric Renault Twingo and new Dacia Spring at the Novo Mesto plant in Slovenia. The electric A-segment city car Pixo expands Nissan’s growing electric vehicle line-up alongside Leaf and Micra.
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It will share key engineering and technology – including batteries – with the Twingo and Spring.
A full reveal of the Nissan Pixo is planned for 23 September.
The manufacturing and engineering cooperation between Renault and Nissan – exemplified in small electric cars – reflects the evolving partnership between the two.
Renault and Nissan are still in an alliance, but the relationship has been reshaped to be more flexible and project-focused rather than tightly integrated as in the past. In March 2025, Renault Group and Nissan signed a new Framework Agreement covering strategic projects and amendments to the New Alliance Agreement, which both companies described as evidence of the “new Alliance” operating with a more agile and business-oriented mode.
GlobalData analyst Justin Cox notes that the partnership still delivers significant benefits to both OEMs. “The Alliance was in danger of being completely fractured following the turmoil surrounding Carlos Ghosn’s dramatic departure,” he says. “But the two companies were heavily intertwined and integrated in areas of engineering and also parts procurement.
“The benefits of the ties developed over more than two decades were difficult to walk away from, so they have continued to work together. The plant in Slovenia and the products it is making are a good example of shared costs and mutual scale benefits – vital in the intensely competitive global business landscape that Renault and Nissan both face.”
