Nissan’s Pixo Is a 161-Mile Electric City Car. It Is Not Coming to the US.

Nissan revived the Pixo name on September 23, and you cannot buy one. The Pixo is a European car. It is built in Slovenia, it is sold in Europe, and it is not scheduled for the United States at all.

What Europe gets is a small electric hatchback with a 27.5 kWh lithium iron phosphate battery and 259 km of WLTP range, which is 161 miles. Nissan says customer deliveries begin in early 2027. It has not said what the car costs. Market pricing arrives from December 2026 onward, and the under-20,000-euro figure being quoted today (roughly $23,000 before incentives) is an expectation, not a number Nissan has announced.

161 miles is the whole point

That range figure sounds thin if you are used to reading EPA stickers on a crossover. Read it as a city car number instead, because that is what Nissan built. The Pixo is 3,796mm long with a 2,492mm wheelbase and a 9.9m turning circle, which is the kind of spec sheet that matters when you are parking in Lyon and not when you are driving to Phoenix.

Keep the test cycle in mind too. WLTP is the European standard, and it generally returns higher numbers than the EPA cycle Americans read. A hypothetical EPA rating for this car would come in under 161 miles. Nobody is going to publish one, since the car is not coming here, but it is the right mental adjustment before you compare the Pixo to anything in a US showroom.

The hardware

The motor makes 60 kW. DC fast charging tops out at 50 kW, which gets you from 15 to 80 percent in about 28 minutes. The AC side matters more day to day. Charging is 11 kW and bidirectional as standard, so the car can send power back out.

Boot space is 356 liters with the seats up and 1,221 with them folded, and the rear seats slide independently. There is another 18 liters of cabin storage plus a 50-liter compartment for cables, which anyone who has shoved a wet charging cable into a footwell will appreciate.

Google and Gemini in a cheap car

Inside there is a 7-inch driver display and a 10-inch touchscreen running Google built-in with Gemini, which Nissan says works in 16 languages. e-Pedal one-pedal driving is here, along with automated emergency braking, lane keeping, adaptive cruise, lane departure warning and hands-free parking. That is a long list for Europe's A-segment, though software is also the cheapest thing to put in an inexpensive car.

It is a Twingo with a different face

The Pixo shares its underpinnings with the Renault Twingo and gets built at Renault's Novo Mesto plant in Slovenia, which is what the Nissan and Renault partnership is for. Nissan Design Europe in London handled the styling, with pixel-inspired lighting front and back and hidden "23" motifs scattered around the car as a nod to "ni-san" in Japanese. The last Pixo was a rebadged Suzuki Alto that Nissan stopped selling in 2013, so the name has been sitting unused for more than a decade.

The price nobody has confirmed

Nissan's release says pricing and pre-order details arrive from December 2026 onward. Until then, treat every euro figure you read, including the under-20,000 one, as an estimate rather than a quote from Nissan. The real number is about three months out, and it is the number that decides whether this car works.

The Pixo joins a European lineup of small electric cars that keeps growing, with the Twingo it shares parts with parked right next to it. American buyers keep saying they want a cheap small EV. The cheap small EVs keep getting built for somebody else.